19 Unofficial Ways to Speed Up Windows 7

[exfileme]

Here are a few tips to increase the speed of Windows 7.

19 Unofficial Ways to Speed Up Windows 7 : Read more

 

[Zoonie]

Oh, you forgot to put "Most useless article of the week:" before your title.

 

[opmopadop]

Erm, this one is useful for non-SSD ntfs drives if you have lots of ram free (uses a few hundred mb when copying) :
fsutil behavior set memoryusage 2

If your memory gets swallowed up change it back to 1

 

[sunflier]

1 unofficial way to speed up Windows Vista - Strap Vista DVD to a bottle rocket.

 

[choujij]

@Zoonie Ouch... A little harsh, no?

 

[mavroxur]

Oh wow, so, you're telling me that upgrading to SSD's, adding more RAM, and using a 64 bit OS on machines with > 3gb RAM will help?


Thanks for the astute observations, Captain Obvious.


This article could apply to ANY operating system...or any system PERIOD.

 

[maigo]

Do the same thing you did on Vista/XP/2000/NT/98/95/3.1/dos

hur dur

 

[spentshells]

[citation][nom]Zoonie[/nom]Oh, you forgot to put "Most useless article of the week:" before your title.[/citation]
excellent

 

[foody]

This article almost implies that doing all of these things wouldn't speed up a computer in general, just Windows 7.

I already know that a SS drive is faster than mine.

 

[nawat]

Personally I don't really consider things like upgrading a way to "speed up." It's a given anyway; why in the world would you spend money if it won't speed up your PC.

I was expecting more like tips, tweaks and stuff.

 

[Zoonie]

[citation][nom]Choujij[/nom]@Zoonie Ouch... A little harsh, no?[/citation]

Yeah perhaps you're right. Sorry man, I'm not a mean guy, but Kevin keeps pushing out Cpt. Obvious articles on a site I used to love for its useful information.

 

[choujij]

Lol True.

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]Zoonie[/nom]Yeah perhaps you're right. Sorry man, I'm not a mean guy, but Kevin keeps pushing out Cpt. Obvious articles on a site I used to love for its useful information.[/citation]
I have more of an issue with the source. They detail 19 ways to perform common sense tasks. "Install more RAM"...... No, really?

 

[imrul]

ah general stuff... i was thinking it was some hardcore tweaks...

 

[DjEaZy]

... 7tweak is a nice app... sadly, it is not free...

 

[anamaniac]

[citation][nom]randomizer[/nom]I have more of an issue with the source. They detail 19 ways to perform common sense tasks. "Install more RAM"...... No, really?[/citation]
Ha...

Reformat to completely rid of OEM crapware, don't run an antivirus (but be careful of your browsing habits), and don't try to run Vista/Win7 on only 256MB of RAM, and you'll be just fine. =D

 

[Atticah]

windows 7 + razer megalodon = 5 mins of usuage during gaming

damn win 7/razer drivers >:O

 

[hixbot]

This is the most painfully obvious list i've ever seen. Is this list meant for people who've never used a PC before? my god.

 

[boonality]

Worthless on a tech forum....

Also, what is the 3GB limit mentioned?????????? I mean i know what the x86 4GB limit is, never heard of the 3GB one.

 

[jomofro39]

C'mon tom's! We expect more of you guys! We know you can do better! I guess, just in case, someone manages to find your site on their computer, and still knows nothing about their computer, this would be interesting.

 

[shotgunpadre]

step 1: format your disk
step 2: install vista without any service pack

now you have a faster pc. every time microsoft alters something about their os, they make it worse.

 

[DalaiLamar]

The most effective way is to install SSD.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]boonality[/nom]Worthless on a tech forum....Also, what is the 3GB limit mentioned?????????? I mean i know what the x86 4GB limit is, never heard of the 3GB one.[/citation]
As pretty much everyone knows, except maybe you, the 4GB limit on 32bit systems include GFX cards and mappable memory addresses on motherboard system devices. Yes, I understand not all GFX cards have the same amount of memory but you will never see the full 4GB, so round down to 3GB.

 

[lvlouro]

this is very useful, thanks!!!

One question though: What's does PC stand for?

 

[mlopinto2k1]

I like the Aero interface but I always revert to classic windows and turn everything off except like screen font smoothing, mouse cursor shadow, windows shadow, translucent selection, etc.. Also, when using Photoshop with a tablet I always turn off the Tablet PC service and just make sure the wacom service is running. ALSO.. (pheww), Photoshop has the OpenGL acceleration support (for CS4) and if you turn off 3D interaction acceleration and under advanced drawing turn off use for image display ALONG with having the classic windows interface you will experience maximum draw perfomance all this assuming you have a decent video card! Alternatively you can turn off OpenGL support entirely and that has even faster draw rates but you get the slow zoom and pan. Anyway, I turn off System Restore, Indexing, all the advanced options mentioned before, I have Diskeeper Pro installed (awesome program), NOD32 (64bit)... and my sound card (Xfi) and that's it. My machine is pretty much not going to do much better and for now it's all I need. And, that's that.