How to increase your system(pc's) performance

This topic is suitable for all types of systems or windows OS. XP OS may differ from the instructions that are specified below, so it is highly recommended for Windows 7, Vista users. It is not true that, only these settings will improve your system performance, but it will definitely help you to improve a lot more than your current status.

The things you have to follow are :

GET RID OF UNNECESSARY DISPLAY SETTINGS

Windows has a lot of built in visual effects that really don’t do anything, and you probably won’t really even notice that they are gone. By removing some of these unnecessary visual options you can help fix your slow computer or just improve performance.

To disable all the effects,

1.      Click Start and Right Click My Computer, Click Properties

2.      Click the Advanced System Settings tab 

3.      Under Performance Section, Click Settings button

4.      Click Adjust for Best Performance and then Click OK.

REGULARLY DEFRAGMENT YOUR HARD DRIVES

Regularly defragmenting your systems Hard Drives is probably one of the easiest ways to improve system performance. Many people seem to think that if you fill up your computer with BEEFY Processors and Gigabytes of memory, your computer will be screaming fast. What they fail to realize is a slow performing Hard Drive (Poor Disk IO) plays a VERY significant role in the Performance of a Computer. A messy Hard Drive (Defragmented) can bring a system to it’s knees quickly.

One thing to remember is that in order to Defrag your drive efficiently, you should try to keep 15% of your drive free when you initiate the clean-up. Although the 15% rule isn’t a requirement, when the system begins moving files around to optimize the drive the more space available the better (and faster).

DISK CLEANUP

To Clean up your disk :

1.      Double Click the My Computer icon.

2.      Right-Click your drives and Click Properties.

3.      Click Disk Cleanup.

4.      Click OK.

5.      Repeat for each drive.

DON’T USE A DESKTOP PICTURE

It might be really cool having your favorite scenery, car, or super-model on your desktop. But, did you know that this uses up system resources thus slowing down your PC performance? If you opt to remove the image and just use a plain color background it can help increase your computer speed.

1.Right click anywhere on Desktop .

2. Click personalize and look for Desktop Background and choose none .

3. Click ok .

SIMPLIFY WINDOWS EXPLORER BROWSING & IMPROVE STABILITY

Improve your folder browsing so that a single Explorer window does not take the rest of your system down by launching each window in a separate folder & disabling network prefetch.

1.      Click Start menu and Click My Computer

2.      Click Organize tab from File Menu at the top of the window

3.      Click Folder and Search Options & Click the View tab

4.      Check and Un-Check two separate boxes – First, Uncheck the box that says Automatically search for network folders and printers. Then scroll down and Check the box that says Launch folder windows in a separate process

SCAN FOR SPYWARE AND VIRUSES

Spyware and Viruses are becoming more and more common as the internet continues to expand. If your security features aren’t 100% up to date you can acquire a virus or spyware simply by just browsing the internet. Once your computer is infected it will really hurt it’s performance among other problems including information vulnerabilities and complete system failure. The best way to go about protecting yourself is to make sure you always have all of the latest Windows Updates installed. And another way to keep yourself safe is to get an Anti-Virus program.

SOFTWARES THAT CAN HELP YOU :

CCleaner :

·         Make Windows Faster, More Stable & Free Up Space

·         Junk Files, Junk Registry Entries, Junk Cookies — Just Some of What Slows Down Windows will be eliminated .

It has some more features that will help you improving your performance. Follow the youtube video I have posted above for better understanding of all these steps and procedures.

Thanks :)