[Music] hello everyone Benton here with you sync script today I will be going over something that has been an interesting topic in our community that is thinkorswim being slow or laggy I'm sure we all experienced this before maybe even this morning perhaps there are a few ongoing discussions on our forum related to this topic after dating through them I was able to learn a few tips and tricks that could potentially improve thinkorswim performance as a user of thing or swim platform one of my favorite things to do is just test out different indicators even though I know I won't be using them on a daily basis it's just fun to test out others people's work as a result I have loved and used custom scripts one way to improve the performance of your thinkorswim is just to remove the unused and use third-party script luckily in TRS there is a separate folder that you can quickly open and perform a quick cleanup so you would click on slow teaser here edit studies click on the drop-down go to user define here is a list of all the studies that you have manually import it to your thinkorswim click on the first item scroll all the way down here press shift and then click on the last item this will automatically select all the items in this folder I and oh by the way I'm on 8 the windows so I would press shift I'm not sure if it is different key on the Mac so you might have to test out different keys if you're using another system now left-click and then you would delete click delete do you want to see right here I have 251 custom scripts that I have in my finger swim click yes this process may take a while so just let it run you won't be able to perform any other actions one while this is running the program appears to be thrown slowly and they're caught okay just click on continue next three is or applied to the chart so you may be wondering what if I delete an indicator that I'm using on my chart do not worry linger swim will not delete any indicators that you currently have on your chart for example right here I have news 30 17 news 30 65 and ORV underscore 2 on my chart currently so that would not be deleted from your platform click OK and then ok now let's check on the folder again user define and now you only have three custom indicators left next we will be switching over to the strategies tab we'll also do the same cleanup look for your unused strategies under user-defined here I have on my own you strategies and then as you can see 40 custom strategies and now they're gone click OK okay for the next trick we are going to have to log out for thinkorswim let's go ahead and close it okay let's go ahead and open it again before logging into your thinkorswim platform click on the gear icon and then adjust the RAM setting by default TOS we use the lowest value but to ensure that T restless-leg we can adjust the RAM setting I personally use 1024 but I do know some people that use higher value this is entirely up to you there are a few pre-selected values you can use 30 72-61 44 and then and so on once you have that selected click Save and then you can go ahead and login into your thinkorswim again last but not least this trick came from a user of ours on the forum this person contacted TOS support and they were instructed to delete the user GUI folder in teenagers from directory I will include a link to this post in the description of this video go to your desktop left click on deep thing or swim icon click on properties under shortcut click on open file location' look for the folder called user GUI 3 here left click and then delete now let's go ahead and reopen or thinkorswim according to this member it may take a while for TOS to low at first or issue it run much faster after you login okay that is it I hope that has been helpful to you if you're a thinker swim continues to lag during trading hours or even after hours it is worth getting in touch with thinkorswim support hopefully they can help you out it is worth checking out your computer specs as well if the computer is too old or doesn't have enough RAM consider making an upgrade I'll see you guys in the next video take care [Music]