How to speed up your computer windows operating system
Let's
make your operating system run faster by simple tweaks in safe ways
- Manually check your disk for errors
Go to Start menu, Run, type “cmd” ,OK, type "chkdsk C: /r
/x"
Select yes and restart your computer
When the it reboots disk gets checked it takes time so be
patient.
- Cookies and internet junk files
Delete your internet cookies and junk if you have not done it a
while, you should do this
least once a week.
In Internet Explorer, Tools -> Options -> General tab for
browsing history, change the settings to
something good and then do a delete disable
In Firefox, choose Tools -> Options-> Privacy tab, change the
settings and then clear the data.
- Delete extra temporary file
Let's
make sure we see hidden files
Open
Windows Explorer Tools -> Folder Options -> View Enable
"Show hidden files and folders" and uncheck "Hide
protected operating system files" (answer yes to the popup)
Start ->
Run - %temp% (temporary files in user folder)
You can delete all those files: Edit -> Select all -> Delete
Start -> Run - temp (temporary files in %windir%)
You can delete all those files: Edit -> Select all -> Delete
Start -> Run - %windir%\prefetch
You can delete all those files: Edit -> Select all -> Delete
Find any extra temporary files
Start menu -> Search -> Files and folders
Choose "All files and folders", may take some time
Search: *.tm?
Delete all the ones you can, some may be currently in use by
programs running on the computer.
Professional way download Cccleaner from here http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
install it and run it.you're done.
- Check for spyware and virus
The
following programs remove all kinds of shit.
- Spyware -
Get
spybot from here http://www.safer-networking.org/private/ and scan
your computer for
spyware
that might slow down your computer
- Anti-virus -
ESET download eset anti virus from here
http://www.eset.com/us/download/free-trial/
download eset you get 30 days trial and another one is AVG or
Avira AntiVirAvast. AntiViravast has boot level
scanning and automatic updates.Download from here
http://free.avg.com It's a free version
with no trial limit.
- Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware -
Download from here http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/
- Make sure scheduled scans and updates are enabled at least once a week.
Now make computer faster time
Desktop
Right click on desktop -> Properties -> Themes tab
Change theme to Windows Classic
Go to Screensaver tab
Make it so no screensaver and apply
User power saving if you want the screen to turn off
- Make your computer even faster by turning off below services
Last access
Start Menu -> Run, type in cmd, press enter
"fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1" into the cmd
and press enter, no quotes
Disable short filenames
Start Menu -> Run, type in cmd, press enter
In the same command prompt enter "fsutil behavior set
disable8dot3 1" without quotes
Fonts
Start Menu-> Control Panel -> Fonts
Delete fonts that you don't use
If you wanna save them just in case, just make a different folder
and zip them up so the
computer would not delete them.
Programs
Start Menu -> Control Panel -> Add/remove programs
Take off any you don't use and won't be using
- Indexing
My computer -> Right click on hard drive
Click box to make indexing off and apply, let it run, will take
awhile
Removing Connections Restriction
Start your computer faster by removing unwanted programs which
loads up at start up
Go to Start Menu -> Run, type msconfig and press enter
Go over to the Startup tab, click "Disable all" and
enable what you only really need at startup.
- Defrag
With default Windows Defragmenter
Go to My Computer -> Right click on drive to defrag ->
Properties -> Tools -> Defragment
Click "Defragment"
Have it do it about 2 or 3 times so it'll be all done, each time
it'll go faster
With specialized software
Defraggler - allows you to search and defrag specific files and
clusters - useful for speeding up
the process Download from here.http://www.piriform.com/defraggler
Microsoft Bootvis - defragments files that can't be defragmented
while Windows is running (like
boot files) Download from official microsoft website. For windows xp
users only
O&O Defrag - more defrag options than the default defragger
Download from here http://www.oo-software.com/en/free
Page Defrag - defrags normally locked Windows files (like
pagefile.sys) during system startup
Download from official microsoft website
Raxco PerfectDisk - again more options and statistics
Download from here
http://www.raxco.com/home/products/perfectdisk-pro
UniBlue Registry Booster - does what you thought Windows Optimizer
was supposed to do,
except IRL. Microsoft Certified so no system32 worries Download from
here
Further performance tweaks
Desktop graphics performance
Right click on My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced tab and
then click on Performance
setting Adjust for best performance
Update video drivers to latest version (if possible, also, get the
ones off of the manufacturer
website, not the Microsoft website, as those are usually outdated.)
- Pagefile
Go
to Start Menu -> right click on My Computer -> Properties ->
General tab
Near
the bottom of it, it says how much RAM you have, remember that
Go
to Advanced tab -> click Settings under Performance options
Go
to Advanced tab -> click Change under "Virtual memory"
If
you have more than one hard drive, move the paging file to whichever
one has the least amount of
data
access and is the fastest; don't have the pagefile on the
OS/applications drive unless it's your
one.
Remember how much RAM you have? Set the paging file to be custom size
and both the initial and
maximum size to 2 times the size of your RAM
Click "OK" and you're done.
- Yellow bars in Start Menu
These
point out the newly installed programs, and just makes the start menu
look untidy.
Right
click on Start Menu and click Properties
Click
Customize at the bottom of this dialogue box
Click
on the Advanced tab and untick "Highlight newly installed
programs"
- Error Reporting
Since
there's no chance of ever getting a reply from Microsoft if a program
closes unexpectedly, turn
it
off.
Right
click my computer and go to properties>system
Go to
the Advanced tab and click the Error Reporting button at the bottom
Click
"Disable Error Reporting"
Another program which allows you to tweak an XP install is Tweak UI
2.1. It carries a host of options
ranging from what appears when you right click to altering which
system default icons are allowed or
not
allowed on the desktop and many, many more. Don't want your recycle
bin on the desktop? Turn
it
off Download from here http://www.apphit.com/download_tweak_ui-75/
Good
luck in making your windows operating system faster.
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