Almost all of us wants to use a fast and consistent Computer on a daily basis, on whatever we do, whenever we want. Nobody wants to use a computer with a very slow that eats your time and affects your productivity. Specially when we are on a rush to finish something, even saving files, copying files, processing something, we want all of the things on our computer are fast.
Here are some things that we can do and steps on how can we speed up our computers and have a productive every time, on every thing we do.
1. Disable Indexing Services
Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large
amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This
system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your
computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your
computer, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don't
search your computer often, or even if you do search often, this system service
is completely unnecessary. To disable do the following:
1. Go to Start
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Double-click Add/Remove Programs
5. Click the Add/Remove Window Components
6. Uncheck the Indexing services
7. Click Next
2. Optimize Display Settings
Windows can look sexy but displaying all the visual items
can waste system resources. To optimize:
1.Go to Start
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Click System
5. Click Advanced tab
6. In the Performance tab click Settings
7. Leave only the following ticked:
- Show shadows under menus
- Show shadows under mouse pointer
- Show translucent selection rectangle
- Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
- Use visual styles on windows and buttons
3. Disable Performance Counters
Windows has a performance monitor utility which monitors
several areas of your PC's performance. These utilities take up system
resources so disabling is a good idea.
To disable:
1. download and install the Extensible Performance Counter
List
2.Then select each counter in turn in the 'Extensible
performance counters' window and clear the 'performance counters enabled'
checkbox at the bottom.button below.
4. Speedup Folder Browsing
You may have noticed that every time you open my computer to
browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows automatically searches for network files and printers every time you open
Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing significantly:
1. Open My Computer
2. Click on Tools menu
3. Click on Folder Options
4. Click on the View tab.
5. Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and
printers check box
6. Click Apply
7. Click Ok
8. Reboot your computer
5. Improve Memory Usage
Cacheman Improves the performance of your computer by
optimizing the disk cache, memory and a number of other settings.
Once Installed:
1. Go to Show Wizard and select All
2. Run all the wizards by selecting Next or Finished until
you are back to the main menu. Use the defaults unless you know exactly what
you are doing.
3.Exit and Save Cacheman
4.Restart Windows
6. Optimize your internet connection
There are lots of ways to do this but by far the easiest is
to run TCP/IP Optimizer.
1. Download and install
2. Click the General Settings tab and select your Connection
Speed (Kbps)
3. Click Network Adapter and choose the interface you use to
connect to the Internet
4. Check Optimal Settings then Apply
5. Reboot
7. Optimize Your Pagefile
If you give your pagefile a fixed size it saves the
operating system from needing to re-size the page file.
1. Right click on My Computer and select Properties
2. Select the Advanced tab
3. Under Performance choose the Settings button
4. Select the Advanced tab again and under Virtual Memory
select Change
5. Highlight the drive containing your page file and make the
initial Size of the file the same as the Maximum Size of the file.
Windows sizes the page file to about 1.5X the amount of
actual physical memory by default. While this is good for systems with smaller
amounts of memory (under 512MB) it is unlikely that a typical desktop system
will ever need 1.5 X 512MB or more of virtual memory. If you have less than
512MB of memory, leave the page file at its default size. If you have 512MB or
more, change the ratio to 1:1 page file size to physical memory size.
8. Run BootVis - Improve Boot Times
BootVis will significantly improve boot times
1. Download and Run
2. Select Trace
3. Select Next Boot and Driver Trace
4. A Trace Repetitions screen will appear, select Ok and
Reboot
5. Upon reboot, BootVis will automatically start, analyze
and log your system's boot process. When it's done, in the menu go to Trace and
select Optimize System
6. Reboot.
7. When your machine has rebooted wait until you see the
Optimizing System box appear. Be patient and wait for the process to complete
9. Remove the Desktop Picture
Your desktop background consumes a fair amount of memory and
can slow the loading time of your system. Removing it will improve performance.
1. Right click on Desktop and select Properties
2. Select the Desktop tab
3. In the Background window select None
4. Click Ok
10. Remove Fonts for Speed
Fonts, especially TrueType fonts, use quite a bit of system
resources. For optimal performance, trim your fonts down to just those that you
need to use on a daily basis and fonts that applications may require.
1. Open Control Panel
2. Open Fonts folder
3. Move fonts you don't need to a temporary directory (e.g.
C:\FONTBKUP?) just in case you need or want to bring a few of them back. The
more fonts you uninstall, the more system resources you will gain.
and there you are... Hope that atleast you gain some speed on you computer.
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