My desktop is dying. Built it in like 2017 to play games. It hasn’t been able to run them well for years so I turned down the graphics settings. Now I’m at the point where even that isn’t helping. It’s not a complete potato but we’re getting close smh.
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⚠️If you have any important files, back them up to a USB first before you do anything ⚠️
A refresh of Windows could help that too.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/reset-your-pc-0ef73740-b927-549b-b7c9-e6f2b48d275e
If you want to try Linux it might give better performance. I still use a 2014 MacBook Air running Linux for editing photos and it's fine.