Speed Up Windows 7 – Master Tutorial to Make Windows 7 Super Fast

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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.

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IGBI

quad core 920 @ 2.66ghz/core
12gig DDR3 memory
dual monitors
2x64gig SATA SSD's
win7 ultima 64bit.
Virtual Memory turned off
No page file

Win7 Ult 64 still wont use more then max 3gig of memory, even with over 20 apps running.
Are there any hidden Virtual Memory/pagefile settings i still need to turn off so that the comp will run fully on the 12 gig of DDR3?

Thanks in Advance.
VG

^^ Provide following command in Command Prompt:

bcdedit /set pae ForceEnable

The command should get executed successfully. After that restart your system and now Windows should start utilizing full RAM.
IGBI

thats awesome thanks 8-)
Matt

Thanks for the tips :).
Jacob

This Really worked!!! Thanks..

BTW. The disk defrag u mentioned.

That did speed up my pc too!.

(my main hard drive was 17% fragmented LOL) but Thanks Again :)
Master of Master

Vg,vg,vg......
I appreciate your tweaks, very useful.
BUT!!!!!
I dont need that tweaks,
Everything is find only computer.
I already háve 16gig of memory ram.:..
Great job vg.
Uewd

I like some visual effects which you recommend disabling them, I checked an additional option:
Animate controls and elements inside windows

Does this option affects PC performance?
VG

^^ All kind of animations and shadow effects slow down system. The option you are talking about, shows animation in cut/copy dialog box.
Uewd

I also Like its animation When playing Chess Titans. Because of that I enabled this animation.
Michael

Hey man, where is the registry script located if you want to disable it?? It works slightly faster, but it annoys me when I log on, it takes forever!! Thanks in advance!