Master Tutorial to Make Your Windows 7 Super Fast

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:

Collection of Registry Tweaks for 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 remain following options enabled according to your requirements:

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 content 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 that can be Safely set to MANUAL

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 if you want but make sure to set Exit Windows, Windows Logoff, 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 see some noticable improvements in your Windows 7 performance.

This article was posted in Windows 7.

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42 Comments

Juan

Thanks!
Sora

Hi Vishal i got this weird problem with right-click menu after restarting my pc

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/6747/newbitmapimagea.png

i'm using windows 7 beta now pls help me resolve this graphical issue.

I decided to post it here because i have problem posting it at the faq section.
Chad

Hey VG, you said keep Windows Up-To-Date but my Teacher on Computer said don't always keep Windows up to date because it'll take alot of memory... why is that?
VG

^^ Thats the funniest thing I heard ever. Your teacher is misleading. In fact keeping Windows up-to-date makes the system faster and more reliable as the updates fixes bugs and known problems.
Dave

So I did everything here and now my print spooler is completely messed up...I can't print anything because the spooler is constantly crashing. I happened right after something I did from this tutorial...anybody have any ideas how to fix the problem (already tried a system restore). Any help would be greatly appreciated
VG

^^ It seems You have disabled or set "Printer Spooler" service to Manual which is causing this problem. Set it to Automatic and start it using Step 4.
Fr0z3n

Hi

i have a question - does this work on Windows 7 RC to?

Unload unused dlls from memory:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"AlwaysUnloadDll"=dword:00000001

thy

regards Fr0z3n
VG

^^ Yup. It works.
Fr0z3n

Hi Vg

thy.....and keep up the god work

regards Fr0z3n
Pablo

I run win7 on a 4gb HP HDX. After applying these tweaks, I got a blue screen of death and had no way of recovering the OS. I mean, I can't be hating for wanting to make windows faster and better, but this did nothing but scramble the KEYS and registry to the point of self destruct. I was even skeptical towards some of the disabling, and so I decided to do a minimal tweak, and still BSoD... For instance, aero disabled even though I did not disable that function. So thanks, but no thanks...

Master Tutorial to Make Your Windows 7 Super Fast

This article was posted in Windows 7.

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