How to make Windows run faster? We all usually run are Windows operating system on default settings. There are several hidden tweaks and tools known to developers which can make your speed up Windows and make it run faster.
ActiveHowTo.com has an excellent and comprehensive article with a huge number of detailed tips to Make Your Windows Fast As Never Before! And some of the tips they recommend are –
- Disable indexing services
- Optimise display settings
- Disable performance counters
- Speedup folder browsing
- Improve memory usage
- Optimise your internet connection
- Optimise your pagefile
- Run bootvis – improve boot times
- Remove the desktop picture
- Remove fonts for speed
- Disable unnecessary services
- Turn off system restore
- Defragment your pagefile
- Speedup folder access – disable last access update
- Disable system sounds
- Improve boot times
- Improve swapfile performance
- Make your menus load faster
- Make programs load faster
- Improve xp shutdown speed
- Speed up boot times
- Free up memory
- Ensure xp is using dma mode
- Add correct network card settings
- Remove annoying delete confirmation messages
- Disable prefetch on low memory systems”
See the detailed article on how you can fix up each of these Windows settings and get the power software to tweak the rest to speed up Windows.