25 PROVEN WAYS TO MAKE YOUR PC FASTER

Following are more than 25 ways which
can boost your PC performance right now
and make PC work faster as new.

1. Use the Windows Performance Toolkit
and the trace logs to speed up Windows
boot time.

2. Perform a virus scan on your computer
regularly. If you don't want to install
virus protection, use some of the free
online virus scanners.

3. Use web accelerators, which are
programs that try to prefetch and cache
the sites you are going to visit.

4. Make sure that there are no bad sectors
or other errors on your hard drive.

5. If you have a SATA drive and you're
running Windows Vista, you can speed
up your PC by enabling the advanced
write caching features.

6. Reduce the number of fonts that your
computer has to load up on startup to
increase performance.

7. Remove unnecessary old programs
from the Add/Remove dialog of the
Control Panel often.

8. Update all of your drivers in Windows,
including chipset and motherboard
drivers to their latest versions.

9. Partition your hard drives correctly to
maximize performance.

10. Speed up Mozilla Firefox by tweaking
the configuration settings and by
installing an add-on called FasterFox.

11. Speed up the Start Menu in Windows by
customizing or adding the
'MenuShowDelay' key in the registry.

12. Make sure that you have selected
"Adjust for best performance" on the
Performance tab in Computer System
Properties.

13. Make sure to download all the latest
Windows Updates, Service Packs, and
hot fixes as they normally help your
computer work better.

14. Clean registry by removing broken
shortcuts, missing shared DLLs, invalid
paths, invalid installer references and
more.

15. If you are running a 32-bit version of
Windows and have 4GB of RAM or more,
you can force Windows to see and use
all of the RAM by enabling PAE.

16. If you are not using some of the
hardware on your computer, i.e. floppy
drive, CD-ROM drive, USB ports, IR ports,
etc, then go into your BIOS and disable
them so that they do not use any power
and do not have to be loaded during
boot up.

17. Enable DMA mode in Windows XP for IDE
ATA/ATAPI Controllers in Device
Manager.

18. Replace a slow hard drive with a faster
7200 RPM drive, SATA drive, or SAS
drive.

19. Turn visual effects off by going to
Performance Options.

20. Speed up the Send To menu in Explorer
by typing "sendto" in the Run dialog
box and deleting unnecessary items.

21. Disable unnecessary Windows services,
settings, and programs that slow down
your computer.

22. Make icons appear faster while
browsing in My Computer by disabling
search for network files and printers.

23. Tweak Windows using free programs

24. If you already have anti-spyware
software installed, turn off Windows
Defender protection.

25. If you do not use the Recent Documents
feature in Windows, then disable it
completely.

Posted in: Windows Tutorial