Master Tutorial to Make Your Windows 7 Super Fast



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v374/vishaal_here/Windows%207/Windows7logo.png

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 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 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 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.

Complete list of AskVG articles



This article was posted in Windows 7.


Share |


Related Articles

Popular Articles



61 Comments

1 ... 4 5 6 7

  • Sarge

    I had to roll back my OS after running the OS 7 registry Tweaks... It had a negative impact on my sound which in turn effected my iTunes. After riolling back all is fine...

  • Drogdar

    I can't believe they left out one of the most important...

    enable all cores on start up. Most people now days are running dual cores or quad core processors.

    Hold windows key down and hit "R", this brings up the "Run" box. Then type "msconfig" and hit enter. Under the "Boot" Tab select "Advanced Options..." and check the "Number of processors:" and select the highest number available from the drop down. Click "Apply" then "Ok" and then restart. You will notice a big difference in your start up time (especially quad cores or dual core laptops).

    All it does is use all available cores to (you guessed it) boot up windows and it shaves off anywhere from five to 30 seconds. (not even kidding... Girlfriends laptop is basic w/ 2gb ram and enabling both cores took 27 seconds off of her boot time!)

    It is something I feel should be enable by default, and I recommend it to all my customers.

  • Drogdar

    EDIT

    (and should have been noted in the article i think)

    This kind of "minor" stuff will have a much larger (or more noticeable impact) on "lower end systems" or aka almost any machine you buy in a retail store (desktop or laptop... at any price). On the GF's laptop... great difference (this kinda stuff really frees up some precious MBs and vid/cpu power) . My computer (or most of the ones I build for customers) get almost no increase at all.

    Not trying to bash... just a FYI

  • kodi

    thanks for this! it's faster already!

  • DarkPhoenix

    This is a Master list? It looks more to me like; Here, have a few tweaks.

    You tell people to set Services to manual. This is very bad advice. You should study the services, and decide which ones you will never use and disable them. Leaving them set to manual is a security risk. A virus can exploit that service and cause it to run, and you would never notice. Allowing unneeded services to run also takes up system resources and will slow your system down. You won't notice one or two, but many will do it. You just wont know unless you learn about each service and disable the ones you will never use. If you don't want to do this in Services.msc, you can download Sysinternals's AutoRuns from Microsoft. With this you can disable Services and all startup applications you do not need. Next o each service is a detailed description of the service and recommendations so you can quickly decide if you need that service or not.

  • pyrushottam

    thankh a halp

  • Mugag

    Thanks for these Tips VG

  • NiNE

    HAI I HAVE 1GB RAM I INSTALL WIN 7 WAT NOW?

  • adam

    no script or autotask or something to automate most of the above ?
    even i will great a program .. that wont keep running ... like gamebooster .

  • adam

    i also wish to create a batch file(bat) or something to automate most of this ..

    how ? :)

1 ... 4 5 6 7

Add a Comment

NOTE: If you can't see your comment, please be patient. It'll appear as soon as we approve it.


Create an avatar that will appear with your comment.