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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VG
^^ You can export the whole key from the system and import it in Windows 7.
Paul
I just read a thread from a guy who used selective startup for 10 years and the day he wanted to go back to normal startup, it doesn't work, he broke windows.
If you want to learn how to disable items from your startup menu, first start with the actual program itself, look in settings. Second you remove it from the startup menu folder. Third step is to look at your RUN keys in the registry. HKEY>LM>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Current Version > Run and Run Once
Today I come across another posting of someone giving directions to use MSCONFIG to disable items from starting up. However, what you don't realize is MSCONFIG is a troubleshooting tool, not something to use to disable a program you don't know how to disable correctly in the first place.
Selective startup is only for troubleshooting bootup and startup problems temporarily disabling items that you are going to enable later once you figured out the problem. MSCONFIG is not a permament fix to anything, nothing, zip, zilch, nada. MSCONFIG is a troubleshooting tool used mainly by TRAINED and QUALIFIED technicians to troubleshoot boot problems. Can you image the poor guy using MSCONFIG for 10 years was ignorant for 10 years as well?