The Ultimate Guide to Speed up Windows 7

[xFatal23]

Windows 7 is Engineered for speed. Special attention has been given by the Windows 7 team for making Windows 7 faster than the previous operating systems. Windows 7 is much faster than Windows Vista, but even then most of us don’t get satisfied with it. There are many who still have their old PC. Installing Windows 7 on them wont be as soothing as they work with with XP and Even with latest hardware’s installed some users still long for more performance. At least if we don’t make it lightning fast we can optimize Windows 7 to the maximum possible extent and enjoy the maximum performance we could squeeze out from it. So for all the extra performance lovers, let me present you wit this Ultimate Guide To Speed Up Windows 7.

The bare Minimum Requirements You need To Run Windows 7

1) 1GHz processor (32- or 64-bit)
2) 1GB of main memory
3) 16GB of available disk space
4) Support for DX9 graphics with 128MB of memory (for the Aero interface)
5) A DVD – R/W drive

Even if you don’t have the DX 9 graphics card there is no problem because our target is performance and not the ” Eyecandy ” . Of course if you need the aero experience you need a powerful graphics card for sure.

So lets start The Ultimate Guide to Speed up Windows 7

1. Disabling the Search Indexing Feature in Windows 7
*Right Click the “Computer” Icon in the desktop and select “Manage”.
*Click “Services and Applications” in the “Computer Management” window.
*Click on “Services”.
*You can see a lot of services listed there. Look for “Windows Search” in that.
*Right Click on “Windows Search” from the list and choose “Properties”.
*The “Windows Search Properties Window” will open up. From “Startup type” click on the drop down menu and choose “Disabled”.
*Click “Apply” then “OK” and that’s it. The Windows 7 Search Indexing Feature is now disabled.

2.Disable the Aero Theme on Windows 7
*Right Click on your Desktop and select ” Personalize ” click the Window Color Tab.
*Uncheck the Box saying ” Enable Transparency ” and then click on ” Open classic appearance properties for more color options”.
*Then a window will open up. Apply a Standard or Basic theme from it. The Standard Windows 7 theme is more preferred.

3.Disabling the Unwanted Visual Effects in Windows 7 to Speed Up more
*For this right click on ” Computer” and select “Properties” from the right click menu.
*Click on ” Advanced System Settings ” from the left pane to open up the ” System Properties ” window.
*Select the “Advanced” tab from it. Then Under ” Performance ” click ” Settings “. Choose ” Custom: ” Options From it.
*Now untick all the options and select only the last four options (actually three only needed; you can un tick the second option from the last four). *Now just logoff your system and turn logon.

4.Disabling the Unwanted Services to Speed up Windows 7
There are many services in windows 7 that we dont require for our daily use. There are some exceptional cases though. Services such as “print spooler” is only needed when we use a printer. If we use a printer only occasionally we can safely turn off that service in Windows 7 and turn it on only when we need to take a print.

Services that can be safely set to manual or disabled

1.Application Experience
2.Computer Browser (If your PC does not connect to any network)
3.Desktop Window Manager Session Manager (If you don’t want the aero effects)
4.Diagnostic Policy Service
5.Distributed Link Tracking Client
6.IP Helper
7.Offline Files
8.Portable Device Enumerator Service
9.Print Spooler (If you do not use Printer)
10.Protected Storage
11.Remote Registry (You can safely disable it for more Security)
12.Secondary Logon
13.Security Center
14.Server (If your computer do not connect with any network)
15.Tablet PC Input Service
16.TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
17.Themes ( If you want any aero and good visual appearence (classic theme will be applied))
18.Windows Error Reporting Service
19.Windows Media Center Service Launcher
20.Windows Search (If you rarely use Windows Search feature )
21.Windows Time (If you do not want to synchronize system time with internet time automatically)

5.Disable the User account control (UAC) Feature in Windows 7
*From the Control Panel open the ” User Accounts and Family Safety ” > User Account.
*Click the User Account Control settings link.
*Now just Drag the Slider towards “Never Notify”.
*Click “OK” and Reboot your system

6.Turn off Unused Windows 7 Features
*Open up ” Programs and Features ” from Control Panel.
*Click the ” Turn Windows features on or off ” from the left pane.
*Now uncheck all the Feature that you don’t use in Windows 7 and restart the system for the changes to take effect.

7.Change the Power Plan To Maximum Performance
*Double click the ” Power Options ” in the Control panel.
*Click the down arrow showing ” Show Additional Plans ” to see the ” High Performance ” power plan.
*Now just activate the ” High Performance ” plan and that’s it.

reference: http://www.computingunleashed.com/speed-...de-to.html

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so far my pc's performance still fast and smooth ..

[riddick09]

So far, i dont have windows 7 but i do know what windows 7 is and really have high performance since i think i can delete transfer faster and of course i can have fast response. And i love the windows + tab because of the animation of alt + tab.

[leequick]

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[peter011]

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[xFatal23]

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[TURNYUR]

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[xFatal23]

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[riddick09]

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[jexter2090]

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