This is the 3rd tutorial of our "Master Tutorial" series. We have already posted 2 other tutorials for Windows XP and Windows Vista in past and now its turn of Windows 7.
Although Windows 7 is already very fast and reliable but this tutorial will help you in getting the max performance out of your system.
So without wasting any time, here we start our tutorial:
1. Registry Tweaks:
Following topic contains a few registry tweaks to optimize your system performance and add a few useful extras:
Ultimate Collection of Registry Tweaks to Speed Up Windows 7
You just need to download the ZIP file, extract it and run the file. It'll ask for confirmation, accept it. Restart your system to take affect.
2. Right-click on Computer icon on Desktop and select Properties (or press WIN + Pause/Break keys). Now click on Advanced system settings link in left side pane (You can open it directly by giving sysdm.cpl command in RUN or start menu search box). Now click on Settings button in Performance section:
It'll open another window. Disable all unnecessary options in Visual Effects tab, you can leave following options enabled according to your requirements:
- Enable Aero Peek (If you want to use Aero Peek feature)
- Enable desktop composition (If you want to use Windows Aero theme)
- Enable transparent glass (If you want to use transparency in Windows)
- Show thumbnails instead of icons (If you want to show thumbnails in Explorer)
- Show window contents while dragging (If you want windows to show contents while moving them)
- Smooth edges of screen fonts (If you want to show smooth fonts)
- Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop (If you want to show shadows under desktop icon labels)
- Use visual styles on windows and buttons (If you want to use Windows Aero or Basic theme)
3. Open Windows Explorer and go to "Organize -> Folder and Search Options" and click on "View" tab.
Now disable following options:
- Display file size information in folder tips
- Hide extensions for known file types
- Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color
- Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items
4. Right-click on Computer icon on Desktop and select Manage (You can also open it directly by giving services.msc command in RUN or start menu search box).
Now go to Services & Applications -> Services. Here you can set a few unnecessary services to Manual, so that these services don't start automatically with Windows and you can get a faster startup.
Visit following tutorial to know which services can be set to MANUAL to increase system performance:
Windows 7 Services Configuration: Turn Off / Disable Unnecessary Services to Optimize Performance
5. Type msconfig in RUN or Startmenu search box and press Enter. Now go to Startup tab and disable unwanted startup entries. You can disable your graphics card's driver utility, Sound Card utility, etc to speed up the system startup and to increase system performance.
6. Open Sound applet in Control Panel (or type mmsys.cpl in RUN or Startmenu search box and press Enter). Now go to Sounds tab and select No Sounds from Sound Scheme section. You can keep some of your favorite sounds enabled but make sure to set Exit Windows, Windows Log off, Windows Logon and Start Navigation to (None).
Also disable "Play Windows Startup sound" option to disable the sound clip which is played at login screen.
7. Also don't forget to:
- Defrag the hard disk regularly
- Install only necessary software
- Use the latest device drivers
- Keep your Windows up-to-date
After following all the above mentioned points, you'll definitely notice major improvements in your Windows 7 performance.
This article was posted by VG in following section: Windows 7.
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Uewd
What is the Multimedia Class Scheduler Service?
VG
^^ Its a system service used by multimedia applications. Dont change its settings.
uns
it was Great!
but h knew that
wondo
Great Job...Thnkx
TheAslan
Hiya!!
How i got today this message in TU2011:
The visual effect "Fade tooltips in and out" is currently enabled
How i can disable that permanently?? I'm asking because it seems coming back all the time....
VG
^^ You can disable it from System Properties. May be its enabled automatically by a theme?
trinnyg
The optimization technique is to have the page file on its own separate partition. Versus on the primary partition.
Uewd
Can we change all the above settings using a single file?
Uewd
I get this error when restoring a system Image. Code: (0x80780118)
I found a solution, but couldn't understand the answer. Can you explain it for me? I copied this form the website: social(dot)technet(dot)microsoft(dot)com
Question:
I am getting this error when I try to restore a system image of a 2008 Server
The recovery volume is smaller than the source volume. Retry the operation with a recovery volume of the same or bigger size. (0x80780118)
Answer:
Hello.
This error is expected with system image restore when the set of volumes that are included to be restored cannot fit into the set of disks/volumes that available on the current machine to serve as restore targets.
When a volume X is getting restored to volume Y as part of system image restore, it is expected that size of volume Y is at least the same as the size of volume X. Even if the used space on volume X might be less than the size of volume Y, this error would recur.
Did you choose to recreate disks as part of the system image restore?
Let me know if this explanation doesn't help resolving your issue.
Thanks,
Sriram [MSFT]
Microsoft
Thursday, September 02, 2010 12:56
VG
^^ It means the image size which you are going to restore is larger than the size of partition where you want to restore the image.