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These 6 Windows background processes might be slowly shortening your SSD's lifespan
SSDs last a long time, but if your PC runs these background processes, you might be killing it slowly.
To improve performance on Windows 11, you can safely end processes like unused apps, bloatware (e.g., Copilot, Phone Link), high-resource processes, and peripheral-related programs via Task Manager.
If you see multiple processes of the same program running on your Windows 11 PC, there is no need to panic, as this is a normal behavior of all Windows computers. However, if you experience ...
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