# What are the processing power and/or memory requirements to run Windows 10 efficiently?

Ever since I upgraded to Windows 10, my laptop has become almost unusably slow. How do I know if I have the memory and/or processing power to run this efficiently?  
And any other suggestions on speeding things back up?

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- Posted at: over 4 years ago
- Author title: Senior Director of Development
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## Comments
### Comment 1

Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor or SoC

RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit

Hard disk space: 16 GB for 32-bit OS or 20 GB for 64-bit OS

Graphics card: DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver

Display: 800 x 600

##### Comment Metadata
- Posted at: over 4 years ago
- Author title: Regional Manager/Property Manager at Collective Communities Property Management 




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