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is Engineered for speed. Special attention has

been given by the Windows 7 team for

making Windows 7 faster than the previous operating systems. Windows 7 is much faster than

Windows Vista, but even then most of us don’

t get satisfied with it. There are many who still have

their old PC. Installing Windows 7 on them wont be as soothing as they work with with XP and

Even with latest hardware’s installed some users still long for more performance. At least if we

don’t make it lightning fast we can 7 to the maximum possible extent and enjoy

the maximum performance we could squeeze out from it. So for all the extra performance lovers,

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I guarantee that after following this guide and

implementing the recommendations on your PC, you will

really get the performance gain.

The bare Minimum Requirements You need To Run

Windows 7

1) 1GHz processor (32- or 64-bit)

2) 1GB of main memory

3) 16GB of available disk space

4) Support for DX9 graphics with 128MB of memory (for

the Aero interface)

5) A DVD – R/W drive

Even if you don’t have the DX 9 graphics card there is no problem because our target is

performance and not the ” Eyecandy ” . Of course if you need the aero experience you need a

powerful graphics card for sure.

So lets start

The Ultimate Guide to Speed up Windows 7

Disabling the Search Indexing Feature in Windows 7

Right Click the “Computer” Icon in the and select “Manage”.◦

Click “Services and Applications” in the “Computer Management” .◦

Click on “Services”.◦

You can see a lot of services listed there. Look for

“

Windows Search

”

in that.

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Right Click on

“

Windows Search

”

from

the list and choose

“

Properties

”

◦

The

“

Windows Search Properties

Window

”

will open up. From

“

Startup type

”

click

on the drop down menu and

choose

“

Disabled

”

◦

Click

“

Apply

”

then

“

”

and that

’

s it. The

Windows 7 Search Indexing Feature is

now disabled.

◦

Most of

the Windows 7 users do less searches in there system. The Search Indexing

service

in Windows 7 will index keeps track of the files so that they can be found quickly when

asked at some other time. This feature is useful only if you perform frequent searches on

your system.

For occasional file searchers the Search Indexing service in Windows 7 is a total resource

hog. It unknowingly eats up your system resources. What you need from windows 7 is

maximum performance from it then i would certainly recommend you to disable this

resource hogging Windows 7 Search Indexing Feature.

To Disable the

Search Indexing Feature in Windows 7

If you want to completely disable

the search indexing feature in Windows 7 you can set the

Search Indexing Service to Manual (See the above method about disabling unwanted

services).

Disable the Aero Theme on Windows 7

Right

Click on your Desktop and select

”

Personalize

”

click the

Window Color

Tab.

◦

Uncheck the Box

saying

”

Enable Transparency

”

and then click on

”

Open classic

appearance

properties for more color options

”

◦

desktop

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Then a window will open up. Apply a Standard or Basic theme from it. The

Standard Windows 7 theme is more preferred.

◦

The aero user interface certainly adds some ” Eyecandy ” to Windows 7 but certainly is a

resource hog especially when, what you expect from windows 7 is more performance juice.

Aero user interface squeezes your graphics or video card to its maximum. So why dont we

just avoid the Windows 7 aero? if we care more about speed and performance in Windows

7. So Disabling the Aero in Windows 7 certainly adds an extra to it.

Disabling the aero theme alone in Windows 7 will really

speed things up. You can know this by looking into the

memory consumption when aero is turned on and off.

Disabling the Unwanted Visual Effects in

Windows 7 to Speed Up more

For this right click on ” Computer” and select

“Properties” from the right click menu.

◦

Click on ” Advanced System Settings ” from the

left pane to open up the ” System Properties ”

window.

◦

Select the “Advanced” tab from it. Then Under ”

Performance ” click ” Settings “. Choose ” Custom:

” Options From it.

◦

Now un tick all the options and select only the last four options (actually three only

needed; you can un tick the second option from the last four). See the if

you have any doubt.

◦

Now just logoff your system and turn logon.◦

Even though we have tuned off the aero effects in Windows 7 still there are many unwanted

visual effects that can be safely disabled to speed up windows 7 even more.

You will now notice the speed difference now.

Disabling the Unwanted Services to Speed up

Windows 7

There are many services in windows 7 that we dont require

for our daily use. There are some exceptional cases though.

Services such as “print spooler” is only needed when we

use a printer. If we use a printer only occasionally we can

safely turn off that service in Windows 7 and turn it on

only when we need to take a .

I have previously prepared a List of services in Windows 7

that can be safely set to manual / disabled.

Disabling the unneeded services in Windows 7 can really

speed up the system boot time.

Disable the User account control (UAC) Feature in Windows 7

From the Control Panel open the ” User Accounts and Family Safety ” > User

Account.

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Click the User Account Control settings link.◦

Now just Drag the Slider towards “Never Notify”.◦

Click “OK” and your system.◦

The User account control (UAC) feature in Windows 7 is very annoying though it says it

can protect your computer from harmful virus activity etc. But if you are a daily user of

your computer this windows 7 feature will be a total nuisance to you.

To Disable and Turnoff UAC in Windows 7

Disabling UAC is for advanced users

only its not recommend doing it if not.

SetUp the Windows 7 Ready

Boost Service for an Extra

Speed Boost

To configure the Ready Boost

Feature in Windows 7 you need to

have a High Speed Flash/USB or

Pendrive with you which is ready

boost compatible.

◦

After plugging you pendrive, open

“Computer” > Right-click the on USB Drive/Pendrive > select “Ready Boost” tab >

tick the “Use this device” checkbox.

◦

You can configure how much space on your USB drive/ Pendrive to be used as Ram.◦

The ready boost feature in Windows 7 will help you to use your flash drive or pendrive or

USB drive as Ram there by improving the performance and speed of windows 7 greatly.

You can certainly experience it when launching bulky such as Adobe

Photoshop etc.

Turn off Unused Windows 7 Features

Open up ” Programs and Features ” from

Control Panel.

◦

Click the ” Turn Windows features on or off ”

from the left pane.

◦

Now uncheck all the Feature that you don’t

use in Windows 7 and restart the system for

the changes to take effect.

◦

There are many feature in windows 7 that we often

don]t use. Disabling these unused features in

Windows 7 will really help in speeding things up.

Disable the Windows 7 Sidebar (Actually

the Gadgets)

Right click on the sidebar and select ”

Properties “.

◦

On the properties windows untick the check box showing ” Start sidebar when

Windows Starts “

◦

From now on windows sidebar won’t start when windows 7 start up.◦

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Disabling the window 7 sidebar is definitely help you to to gain a few seconds during start

up time. There are many useful utilities such as the RocketDock etc. which are good

application launchers.

To Disable the Sidebar in Windows 7,

Disable the Aero Peek and Aero Snap features in Windows 7

Open the Windows 7 ” Control Panel ” and double-click on ” Ease of Access Center ”

icon.

◦

Now click on the ” Make it easier to focus on tasks ” seen at the bottom in there◦

Now untick the check box saying ” Prevent windows from being automatically

arranged when moved to the edge of the screen ” .

◦

Right click on the Windows 7 and select ” Properties “.◦

Now untick the ” Use Aero Peek to preview the desktop ” option from there.◦

Aero Snap will help you to maximize, minimize and resize the windows just by dragging

and dropping it into the screen corners.

To disable Aero Snap Feature in Windows 7,

That will now disable the Aero Snap in Windows 7.

Now To Disable the Aero Peek feature in Windows 7

The Aero Peek feature in Windows 7 helps you to peek through all open windows by hiding

all other windows and showing only the outlines of all windows. Aero Peek is similar to the

” Show Desktop ” Feature in XP and Vista.

If you have followed step 3 then Aero Peek will be automatically disabled. If not,

The aero peek feature will now be disabled in windows 7.

Change the Power Plan To Maximum Performance

10.

Double click the ” Power Options ” in the Control panel.◦

Click the down arrow showing ” Show Additional Plans ” to see the ” High

Performance ” power plan

◦

Now just activate the ” High Performance ” plan and that’s it.◦

You may go for the advanced settings for further tweaking if you want.◦

The Power settings in Windows 7 is not automatically set for maximum performance. By

default the power plan in Windows 7 is set for a balanced performance with energy

consumption on hardware. So you may not get the optimal performance from windows 7 if

this is the case. So we need to change the power plan to High Performance Mode.

Disable the Thumbnail Preview Feature to speed up File browsing in

Windows 7

11.

Double Click on ” Computer ” >click on the “Organize” drop-down menu and select

the “Folder and Search options”

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Under

‘

Files and Folders

’

section,

go to the “View” tab and tick the

check box showing “Always show

icons, never thumbnails”

checkbox.

◦

The thumbnail preview feature in

Windows 7 will show the small

thumbnails of the contents of a folder

instead of showing it’s icon. But this

feature really do take up some system resources. So by disabling the Thumbnail Preview

feature in Windows 7 the file

browsing in Windows 7 explorer can be speed up.

For disabling thumbnails in Windows

Most Essential Softwares To Speed

Up Windows 7

Wise Registry

Cleaner

◦

CCleaner

◦

TCP

Optimizer

◦

TeraCopy

◦

Startup Delayer

◦

In order to maintain your

Windows 7

Performance and keep it up in Top Shape there

are some very essential software’s that can help

us to Speed Windows 7. I will list some of them here. You can these utilities. But

i remind you that you need to run these utilities at least once in a week. Only if you do it

regularly your Windows 7 will be in top shape every day.

You can read this post which i have prepared earlier about the

Top 5 Tools To Speed Up

Your PC.

http://www.computingunleashed.com/2009/05/top-5-tools-to-speed-up-your-pc-to.html

There you can know more about these software i mentioned

now.

Registry Tweaks to Speed Up Windows 7

Here are

some registry teaks that can be used to speed up windows 7 even more. I have

complied only the safest tweaks that can be applied to your PC. Apart from speeding up

windows 7 they will also add some functionality in windows like adding Copy to / Move to

in right click context menu to speed up your daily

tasks.

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you have the complete version of

Tune Up Utilities

software with you then it is the best

one

to keep your Windows 7 in top shape.

Turn OFF Windows 7 Password

Protection To save a few More

Seconds!!!

If you have set a

password for accessing your user account in windows 7, then you need to

enter

it each and every time you logon to windows. Logging into windows

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without entering any password will save you a few seconds more. If you are the only person

who use your computer then i would recommend to turn this off. If that is not the case you

can skip this step.

How to Automatically Logon to Windows 7 without entering any username or password

Turn OFF Windows 7 Screen Saver and Wallpaper

15.

Right click on desktop and choose “Personalize”.◦

Click the Screen Saver link ” From the Screen Saver drop down menu, Set it to

“None” and click “Apply” and then “OK”.

◦

Now click on “Desktop Background” link.◦

From the “Location” drop down menu select “Solid Colors” and pick one color and

click “OK”.

◦

In order to display the wallpaper and screen saver the system needs some memory. So by

disabling those two we can save a few Mega Bytes of memory.

To Disable The Screen Saver and Wallpaper in Windows 7,

Disable Unwanted Start Up Items and Speed Up Windows 7 Start Up

16.

Type ” msconfig ” in the “RUN” option from start menu press [Enter] to open up the

System Configuration Utility.

◦

Now navigate to the “StartUp” tab.◦

Untick the Entries which are not needed◦

This really matters when you have installed a lot of softwares on your PC. Many software

such as AcdSee will run services such as device detector etc during the system start up.

These are of no use actually for most windows users. So preventing such services from

starting up during the start up of windows 7 can result in quicker start Ups. This will

actually save some seconds during windows 7 start up.

Disable Unwanted System Sounds in Windows 7

17.

Type mmsys.cpl in RUN From the Windows 7 Startmenu search box and press

[Enter].

◦

Navigate to the “Sounds” tab.◦

Now from under “Sound Scheme:” select “No Sounds” > Click “Apply” > “OK”. ◦

You can keep some of your favorite sounds turned on if you want, but sounds played

during the Windows 7 start up, shutdown, Logon, logoff, start navigation etc should

be set to none if you want some real speed boost.

◦

In order to play the sounds you hear in windows 7, system resources are being utilized. So if

you can disable these sound effects you can gain some speed and also free some system

resources too.

To disable the system sounds in Windows 7,

Thats it following all these steps will certainly boost the speed and performance of your

windows 7 operating system.

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7 Blazing Fast!!!”. What's Yours?

Anonymous says:

November 19, 2009 at 3:20 am

very good for extreme gammers, xp lovers and crappy pc's

Ira says:

August 19, 2010 at 9:33 am

Stopping the indexing reduced my RAM usage 10%. I'm running a new Alienware

M17x and I really didn't have any problems with speed but that feature is something I

don't use anyway. Thanks for the tips.

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survey says:

November 20, 2009 at 6:25 pm

I really don't understand all these people complaining about these tips being pointless or

intented for older machines. My system is up to date and fast. And I'd like to stay it that

way. I want my OS to be low profile, simple and fast instead of eating up my resources. I

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don't want Windows but I do want Photoshop and just happen to need Windows as an OS.

Preferably the most up to date 64-bit OS. That's why I have Windows 7, and that's why I

turn all the resource hogging eye candy off.

Paul1982 says:

November 24, 2009 at 1:23 pm

Thanks for this tip men. it helps a lot.. I have a desktop which is a dual core running on a

64bit Windows7 ultimate.. my problem however is with my old laptop. it's celeron M

1.5Ghz and a 512mb memory.. i installed windows 7 home basic. followed all this steps,

and it runs pretty good. God bless

Anonymous says:

November 26, 2009 at 12:18 am

YOU ROCK, nice tips cheers bro!!!!

sharkextreme says:

December 5, 2009 at 2:00 am

GREAT TIPS MAN

THEY REALLY ORK

!!!!!

pete smith says:

December 9, 2009 at 4:39 pm

I would like to thank the ppl who spent the time an effot in maken this site!

I have don a few of the small tips and allready i have took off 20% of my RAM useage and

it is so so much quicker

Thanks ppl

IGNATZ says:

December 15, 2009 at 12:07 am

Ich hab gelost eint forts

a1b2c3 says:

December 15, 2009 at 7:00 pm

Excellent work, such great advice, many thanks for all of your hard work and effort on this,

much appreciated.

All the best

ggggg says:

December 23, 2009 at 8:09 pm

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Dhamith says:

December 27, 2009 at 10:36 am

thanks… hay i have only 5 GB free in hard disk that contain windows 7 is it okay? if any

one know what should i do send me an e mail… hewamullage123@gmail.com PLS PLS

PLS!!!! HELP ME!!!

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Amal says:

December 27, 2009 at 1:04 pm

Its ok if you dont think of installing a lot of softwares in the same partition. You can

also turn off unnecessary features in windows 7 to get more space.

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Rajesh Kanuri @ TechCats says:

December 28, 2009 at 1:11 pm

OMG the list is huge .. seems that u have mastered windows 7.. just bookmarked this page

wil open up the page when i am back to home.

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11.

Lanpetpet says:

December 30, 2009 at 8:23 am

Thanks mate..i really appreciated it.

Say good bye to slow windows7.

12.

raivis says:

December 31, 2009 at 3:17 am

thanks for tips, my windows 7 was so slow now it is normal :) thanks

13.

raivis says:

December 31, 2009 at 3:33 am

really thanks, my pc is more faster :)

14.

CBR says:

January 3, 2010 at 6:08 am

Well then why do we need Windows 7 if everything will look like Windows 95?!?! I think

that you should install 7 if you’r computer can handle it, and you REALLY want it… BTW,

I’m 100% sure that tips will boost computer up to 30-40%, but the visual will suckkk

15.

Amal says:

January 3, 2010 at 6:27 am

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There are many reasons to use windows 7 rather than considering the visual eye

candies.

Rogerjoseph says:

July 9, 2010 at 5:02 am

I agree with the smarter posters here. Many if not all these tweaks are for slow

machines. They are the few things that seperate the best features of windows 7 from

XP. Now you disable them and have what ?? I rna core 2 duo with 4 GB on a 32bit

Windows 7 ultimate with a 512MB DX 10 video and it's sooo much faster than XP by

far. I also run Win XP 2 session in virtual with 1GB allocated to each and this thing is

a beast even while all these are on. Ready boost on 2 usb's.

Windows 7 sings. So yeah if your Pc can barely run 7 and you run out and install it,

one would think it will be slow. Good tips for the less systems but any new "Core i7"

setup really should not follow these.

In windows 7 the indexer is one of these best interface features , giving the search

from any where aka osx spotlight. After that you never use the program files menu.

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Majdi M. Aburahelah says:

January 6, 2010 at 6:32 pm

Thanks for tips. It’s useful.

16.

Suman Shrestha says:

January 6, 2010 at 8:42 pm

This is the greatest tech publication regarding windows 7 ever. I use a Sony Viao laptop

with windows 7 as a recording studio laptop. My DAW is the Cubase 5. I was experincing

crackels and pops during recording ( because of all the resorse hogging crap running in the

back ground mentioned above). I could not under stand why when this laptop was a serious

upgrade from the laptop running XP with no problem ( more RAMS, hard drive etc). This is

ground braking. I cannot thank you enough. No tech support from CUBASE or SONY

could give me the answers for my problems. This solved it all. I thank you very very much.

You are cool my friend.

Suman

17.

pchy says:

January 10, 2010 at 2:23 pm

thank u very much!!!this is really effective.

18.

hotsteppa says:

January 10, 2010 at 6:47 pm

opps romg link for extremecopy..here the right one >>

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January 10, 2010 at 10:20 pm

Great advice – most of them really handy – not just for old PC – is for everyone who like to

learn something(mean clever and kean ppl}

spiderman says:

January 14, 2010 at 6:21 pm

Great stuff dude , this has got my windows 7 pumping, no more aero and useless crap

running in the background , why ohhh why microstuff didnt do all this in the begging

instead of all this useless eye candy , they would have ended up with one great OS.

Cheers from Downunder

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majgis says:

January 15, 2010 at 7:15 am

In the boot advanced options, setting the “number of processors” only restricts the number

of processors the OS will see. Set your quad core to 3 and you will only see 3 cores. It does

not affect boot speed.

22.

Tech Maish says:

January 16, 2010 at 5:19 pm

It is good tip for increasing windows 7 speed.

23.

Murlu says:

January 16, 2010 at 10:34 pm

Thanks a ton, just went through a bunch of these, love optimizing my OS. I kind of miss XP

but I just wanted to go with something new for a change.

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Joe~ says:

January 16, 2010 at 11:55 pm

Extremly helpful windows7 Is fast as hell for me,Thanks~Joe.

25.

Sie says:

January 22, 2010 at 10:37 am

Nice Tips, I will really use them when I get my notebook, hopefully.

Thanks!.

26.

Samanta Smith says:

January 26, 2010 at 2:52 am

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WOW thank you for the time you put up to do this tutorial. Really helpful, thank you once

again.

samsonite801 says:

January 26, 2010 at 2:36 pm

The tip about ticking the box in the boot tab in msconfig that supposedly makes it boot with

2 processors is not a valid tweak. Do a google for it. There are plenty of reliable sources

talking about what this feature is for. If you leave the box UNTICKED it will try to boot

with as many processors as it has anyway. Ticking the box is only for diagnostic purposes

mainly for developers who need to set it to 1 processor for some reason. This tweak should

be removed from here. It is the the one tweak you see on all these sites which is the least

understood of any of the tweaks. Somehow people think it help though. If you time the

bootup with a stopwatch, you will clearly see that bootup time does not change by ticking

the box and setting it to 2 processors. Try it for yourself.

28.

Amal says:

January 27, 2010 at 6:11 am

Sure Sam, you are right. I have done it accordingly, thanks so much for the

suggestion.

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Matija says:

January 31, 2010 at 3:25 am

Yeah, i know one which is useless…its Windows Defender….can be easely disabled from

Services….give it a try…

29.

Jesse S. says:

February 4, 2010 at 6:14 am

I was considering getting another OS and stumbled across this. Happy i did, thx for the time

and effort you invested.

30.

Bert B. says:

February 8, 2010 at 7:35 pm

The tip about ticking the box in the boot tab in msconfig that supposedly makes it boot with

2 cores or more is a valid tweak for my i7 920 processor because the time from login to a

full started desktop is a lot quicker because my Trend Micro Internet security 2010 relatime

protection normaly takes a lot of resources.

I timed it without the tweak for 45 seconds delay and now its 15 seconds delay

31.

Amal says:

February 9, 2010 at 5:38 am

Yep it works for pc’s with processors upto 2 only.

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February 11, 2010 at 6:04 am

I want to disable all AERO features what are used with windows apps under windows 7.

how can I do this<

ReplyAmal says:

February 11, 2010 at 5:06 pm

Type disable aero in windows 7 start and press enter. Then on the opened window

untick enable transparency.

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yannie says:

February 20, 2010 at 7:08 am

after i did al the steps my hp sk-2960 multimedia keyboard will not show the on sreen

volume display nor will the hot keys work (eg. email button , iternet button, or the skip track

buttons) I’ve try to find the option i might have turned off but no luck. pls help

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Amal says:

February 21, 2010 at 7:54 am

Hey friend, it might happen at times due o some registry errors or so. just reinstall the

software using the cd that came along with the hp keyboard and every thing will work

fine.

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Santika Yasa says:

February 25, 2010 at 2:26 pm

Thats good friend :) i also write some guide to make windows 7 running faster. Please give

me advice if i am wrong, and lets sharing together. :)

This is my article : http://howcomrep.com/2010/02/25/14-ways-build-high-performance-

windows-7-speed-part-1/

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Stefano says:

February 26, 2010 at 7:33 pm

Help!

I followed some of the tips, and probably the very first one make me disappear ANY search

functionality. When i press windows+f i get an error about no program found, and i can’t

find the windows search anymore….

help me please! :=)

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Stefano says:

February 26, 2010 at 7:35 pm

ehm… i found it.

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February 26, 2010 at 10:30 pm

just start up the search service from administrative options > Services.

Michael says:

February 28, 2010 at 10:10 pm

Thanks for the great tips.

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max says:

March 4, 2010 at 12:27 am

I have a choice of running 64 bit and 32 bit windows 7. I have the i5 intel duo core 2.27

processor and 4 GB memory laptop. I am not planning on sucking up lots a memory with a

ton of applications running at once so the memory management with the 64 bit is not all that

necessary. I am looking for performance so which would be better for me?

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Amal says:

March 4, 2010 at 6:04 am

Yeah if you are aiming at performance and if your processor supports the 64 bit

technology then go ahead with the 64-bit version.

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Paul R says:

June 24, 2010 at 11:36 pm

I have to disagree with that. Win7 32-bit is actually faster with >90% of the

programs out there. This is because almost all programs (including Microsoft's

own Office programs) are optimized for a 32-bit environment. That means the

programs have to go through an additional emulation layer to work in a 64-bit

environment, which tends to slightly degrade performance. Eventually, though,

software producers will catch up and create 64-bit optimized software, but I

don't expect that in the near term.

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ASHISH says:

August 8, 2010 at 12:00 am

I am a tech, I have worked With HP computer USA and with one more company. I

can help you to speed up your computer-

just folow few steps daily anf your computer will never go down

-go to filehippo.com- download ccleaner

-run It every end of the day

(in this tool at left hand side we have registry cleaner, also click on that link to clean

registry apart from cleaner, when you run registry cleaner it will ask to to save the

registry file..always save the registry back up file)

-download one more tool atfcleaner.notlong.com, once you open this link it will ask

you to save, run , cancel click on save, save the file on desktop

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For any more query you can mail me at ashish0015@gmail.com

sankar says:

March 9, 2010 at 11:03 am

actually each time i restart my system its shows press f1 to resume and a drive error.. when i

press f1 it show the black screen as which os u want to use windows 7 or windows xp but i

don have xp in my system.. how to skip tat window,,pls help tnx for advance..

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Amal says:

March 9, 2010 at 7:13 pm

Try this link and see whether it helps you.

http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/motherboards-bios-cpu/304606-

drive-error-press-f1-resume.html

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sankar says:

March 9, 2010 at 8:10 pm

this link is not working….amal

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March 10, 2010 at 6:06 am

Hey its working fine. Check this one too. http://www.d-a-

l.com/help/windows-me-help/931-windows-me-fails-start.html

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milton says:

March 9, 2010 at 3:18 pm

if i make windows 7 ultimate final faster wht will be problems in future.any problems when

i install any software or any update

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Amal says:

March 9, 2010 at 7:11 pm

Dont worry it wont cause any problem.

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Rajesh says:

March 13, 2010 at 5:39 am

Really a great TIP TO SHARE.. LOVE U

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Thanks Rajesh for the support.

Aaron says:

March 13, 2010 at 9:31 pm

Disabling Aero won’t necessarily give you a speedup (in fact it could hurt performance) due

to the fact that it offloads work from the CPU to the GPU. This means your CPU can spend

its time doing other things instead of rendering the desktop and overlaying windows.

Windows Search in 7 is also fairly unobtrusive (unlike in earlier versions of Windows). It

will do a file system crawl after you first run Windows 7 after installing, but once the

system is indexed it mostly only has to deal with changes to the filesystem, which it can

track individually. The only case where it makes sense to disable Search is if you never use

it and you have a very low amount of RAM (in which case you should be running XP

anyway).

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Amal says:

March 14, 2010 at 7:55 am

I cant agree completely because run windows 7 with the aero user interface and check

the amount of ram used. Also using aero does hurt the performance when you are

playing games and using other graphic intensive applications. Dont you see some

apps automatically switch off the aero user interface when they are started in

windows 7? So turning off aero does improve the performance, i have my self tested

it and also many readers reported it.

If you are not a frequent searcher in windows 7, you can safely turn off the indexing

feature. What’s the use if you are barely using the windows 7 search feature? There is

no use in indexing the files as it takes time and resources. But for frequent searchers it

is not recommended to turn off the widows 7 search.

Good Luck Aaron

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uncomplicated says:

March 14, 2010 at 6:24 pm

windows=bloody hell complicated

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Dinesh says:

March 19, 2010 at 1:16 am

Amal, this is a good list,I have combined a list with some more steps. 22 steps to make

windows 7 faster. Read here

http://www.sysprobs.com/22-easy-free-steps-windows-7-faster-faster

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Amal says:

March 19, 2010 at 4:37 pm

Dinesh, Yeah nice list just read them. Thanks For including my post :)

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March 22, 2010 at 4:15 am

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Thanks very much for the helpful ideas which have sped things up for me!

The only problem is that now when I type on my keyboard (Acer PC), whether in Word or

in my browser, letters can be skipped when I type them as the computer seems to pause for

a millisecond. Does anyone have any advice?

Many thanks!

ReplyAmal says:

March 22, 2010 at 4:53 am

@Jaime

Type start keyboard in the start. Now open up the keyboard properties from the list. In

the keyboard properties windows, move both the sliders to the extreme right ie.

Repeat Delay (Short) and repeat Rate (Fast). I think that will help you in fixing the

problem.

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Jamie says:

March 22, 2010 at 9:46 pm

Thanks for the idea, I’ve tried it but no luck – it still keeps on pausing and

missing letters every so often. I wonder if it’s a problem with my Acer wireless

keyboard?

Thanks for your help,

Jamie

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March 23, 2010 at 4:15 pm

@jamie

If it’s still not working try using that keyboard in your friends pc and

check whether this problem persists. If its there then its time for the

batteries to be checked or replaced or might be the keyboard if its under

warranty.

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mahooti says:

March 22, 2010 at 3:20 pm

where do u find “Open classic appearance properties for more color options” ????

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Amal says:

March 22, 2010 at 9:08 pm

Seems like you are not familiar with the new windows. Go here Control Panel\All

Control Panel Items\Personalization\Window Color and Appearance and select ”

Advanced Appearance Settings “. You will get what you want :)

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March 22, 2010 at 3:54 pm

epic fail “Open up ” Programs and Features ” from Control Panel.” Where the hell is that?

ReplyAmal says:

March 22, 2010 at 9:11 pm

Hey look properly. What you see now is not the the classic view of control panel that

s why you are not seeing it. Open control panel and Select Small icons from view by

option at the right of window. Then you will see the option for ” Programs and

Features ”.

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Jusef says:

April 24, 2010 at 1:02 am

comon guys, pay some respect to the man, he worked hard to make this page

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mahooti says:

March 22, 2010 at 4:00 pm

“Now click on the ” Make it easier to focus on tasks ” seen at the bottom in there”

Ummmm… WHERE????

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Amal says:

March 22, 2010 at 9:04 pm

You didn’t see it correctly. Don’t you see the “Explore all settings”. Scroll down the

window. It is there as the last option (at the bottom of the windows). Hope you will

see this time. If you still cant see it. See this screen shot.

http://img2.pict.com/e0/02/eb/3188731/0/makeiteasier.gif

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diffy says:

March 28, 2010 at 9:33 am

I have used the reg file speed up for a few weeks it works fine. the only problem i seem to

have is that the warnings keep coming up to change to user account profile and reboot. I

guess the warning will go away if I shut off the pc issues warning. I just dont like the idea of

me not knowing what program is changing my applications… Ideas??

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Amal says:

March 28, 2010 at 10:01 am

This is because the delay for ending applications are being reduced to a very small

value and the programs are forced to shutdown. Find the corresponding registry enter

in the registration file and increase the delay to 5 seconds or so. That might fix it.

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Faisal Javed says:

April 6, 2010 at 12:10 pm

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Hmm Great and brealent job nice work thanks a lot

Regard

Ch.M.Faisal Javed

rowi says:

April 8, 2010 at 3:45 pm

great. jeez thanks

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David says:

April 15, 2010 at 2:22 pm

You did a really fine job on this article. I am up late reformatting and reinstalling Windows

7 and I couldn’t remember my routine for optimizing Windows. I have been doing these

types of tweaks for years in XP/2000 etc. Great guide.

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Julian says:

April 18, 2010 at 1:51 am

GREAT JOB GUYS,THANKS!!!

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pc security says:

April 23, 2010 at 1:18 pm

Great tips. Most of them are applicable on Windows xp as well…Most essential software

list could have been better.

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Kathir says:

April 24, 2010 at 5:45 pm

Wow, it is really a great info. I know that Windows 7 is pretty speed in performance

compared other MS OS. But, after following the above steps, my Windows 7 is “really”

“really” fast.

Appreciate your hardwork.

Cheers

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Milla says:

April 29, 2010 at 1:30 am

This is great. Thanks!!

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Fahmi says:

May 2, 2010 at 9:56 am

1) Right click at Computer > Properties.

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2) Lower left corner, click at Performance Information & Tools.

3) Upper left corner, click at Adjust Visual Effects.

4) U know what to do..

Hills says:

May 3, 2010 at 9:09 am

wow.. it works.. thanks very much.

before this my windows 7 was really slow.

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Mansoor Ahmad says:

May 4, 2010 at 7:23 pm

This is fantastic. thanks a lot.

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timendum says:

May 4, 2010 at 9:23 pm

The “List of services in Windows 7 that can be safely set to manual / disabled” link is

broken.

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Amal says:

May 4, 2010 at 9:43 pm

Thanks fot notifying it friend. Fixed it now.

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Annie (Lady M) x says:

May 5, 2010 at 3:52 pm

Great guide thanks – my Windows 7 is now faster than a greased weasel.

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miroslav says:

May 6, 2010 at 10:26 pm

First of all i wanna say thx for hard work, really apreciate it..

Now few words to these dumb asses..STUPID IDIOTS SHOW SOME MORE RESPECT

TO THIS GUY OR GO AND KILL URSELF U STUPIDS…

THX MAN

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Marty says:

May 9, 2010 at 12:36 am

This is great.. Except that it takes away things that I like about Win7. You should have a

disclaimer for those with fast rigs that you don’t really need to do this..

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James Turner says:

May 9, 2010 at 2:08 am

Thank you for this making this website for us all. I have used the information from your

page on many windows 7 laptops and it really makes a performance difference, even more

so on netbooks where resources are limited. James

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Md.Imran Siddiqui says:

May 13, 2010 at 3:22 pm

I was using Windows Vista,but when installed some programs its performance became

low.I had heard that Windows 7 can work well even with 1GB RAM.So,I bought a new

DVD of Windows 7.But it worked rather badly.I was thinking of now using Windows

XP.But an idea struck my mind,that I should try something about that on internet.So,I

searched on Google.And followed the steps shoiwn on

“http://www.computingunleashed.com/2009/06/speed-up-windows-7-ultimate-guide-

to.html”.Now I’m working with Windows 7 & enjoying alot.

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Grrr Power says:

May 18, 2010 at 6:17 pm

“You should have a disclaimer for those with fast rigs that you don’t really need to do this.”

Yes – you should have a disclaimer for idiots who really are too stupid to own a computer.

On behalf of the marginally more intelligent readers – thanks for your work here. :)

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Amal says:

May 18, 2010 at 9:43 pm

@Grr Power

Yeah, i think there wont arise a need to speed up windows 7 for people who own fast

rigs. This guide will help those who have difficulty or struggling in running windows

Thanks friend and Good Luck :)

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David says:

May 20, 2010 at 4:46 am

good job, only thing that i noticed in a negative way was my SLI nvidia card temps went

up…don’t know if that is because of the aero or such, but i have a high-end rig and am not

worried about it, only 3 degrees, but when your gaming i notice this difference when

idle….other than that, your right and your conclusions are spot on…GOOD JOB.

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Amal says:

May 20, 2010 at 6:56 am

@David,

Yes david, if u disable aero, actually reduces the load on the graphics card so the

temperature of the graphics card should decrease than currently what you have. Do

check the cabinet for proper airflow and wire clutters. Also do a small cleaning up

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inside the cabinet. That should bring down the temperature if dust was the problem.

Good Luck Friend.

Ahmed says:

May 21, 2010 at 6:51 am

Hey Amal, I’m guessing that you’re the author of this article. There’s no href attached to the

“List of services in Windows 7 that can be safely set to manual / disabled.” link. I really

wanted to see what services I can disable safely. Thanks a ton.

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Amal says:

May 21, 2010 at 8:28 am

@ Ahmed

Thanks a lot friend. The same issue had happened before too. Fixed it now.

Good Luck Friend

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Ahmed says:

May 21, 2010 at 6:56 am

There’s this really cool program that helps make window navigation and handling much

more intuitive, it’s called 7plus and here’s the link to download it:

http://code.google.com/p/7plus/. Look at the sidebar on the right and click on 7plus

V.1.11.zip, NOT the first one with “sources” added.

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sosender says:

May 21, 2010 at 3:58 pm

pls send me tips to highly speed up my startup

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Courtney Drebis says:

May 31, 2010 at 8:45 am

If you do not use multiple monitors, dissable the

TMM. There are several online tutorials on how to do this. The long dark screen

pause before the welcome screen will be eliminated. This shaved a good 20 seconds

off my boot time.

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BinaryWhisper says:

May 21, 2010 at 9:50 pm

comments about users who have fast rigs not needing this is IMO off base. Even if you, like

I, have the fastest system money could buy on the day it was bought they do not build a

consumer machine fast enough to run many applications at the speed many of us would like.

Good article. Thanks

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shane says:

May 22, 2010 at 7:10 pm

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Great reading made a huge change in the speed that my computer ran. Thanks for the

tips!!!!

Goobs says:

May 24, 2010 at 9:06 pm

Well put together and very helpfull.

Thanks very much !

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primelink says:

May 28, 2010 at 6:54 pm

I think that these Tips are old, Yes they are informative but they disable all the “features”

that make windows 7 great. These are the same Tweaks you do to Speed up XP. almost tip

for Tip.

UAC is VERY good in windows 7 and for “stupid people”.

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primelink says:

May 28, 2010 at 7:29 pm

Lost power at my site. lol

What i meant was that Many of these “features” were very similar to what Windows 2000

users said to disable in Windows XP to speed it up.

If you’re running Windows 7 on a “New” computer you do not need to tweak those settings

those are what gives it the edge over XP. As an example. Many Good computers with DX10

GPU actually perform 4x faster with Aero on since now much of the interface is through the

GPU. so turning it of drops you back to the 2D style of XP which is not better.

Mac Os x users can attest to running the whole interface through GPU is the way to go for

performance. M$ knew this hence the feature.

The indexing in Windows 7 can be changed i the schedule task to run off hours (early AM)

so has no impact.

My 2 cents. good to point these tips out but you need to contextualize it by saying this is for

older slower XP computers now upgraded to Windows 7. New Windwos 7 64bit machines

with 8GB and high End DX 11 cards won’t need this.

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Edmund Chew says:

May 30, 2010 at 12:52 pm

Turn off User Authentication mode to ensure your machine can run faster without

prompting 3 or 4 times upon deleting files or file modification.

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May 31, 2010 at 9:02 am

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A great way to make windows more responsive is to increase the amount of ram the

operating system can use. By default, windows uses 256mb. You can increase this to 512mb

doubling the operating systems speed. Just make sure you have 2 to 4GB’s of ram,

otherwise it can slow your system down. To do this, right click command prompt an select

“run as administrator”. Type the following command.

fsutil behavior set memoryusage 2

Now hit enter. Exit out of command prompt and reboot your computer. Windows should

now be twice as responsive. If for any reason you system becomes slower, you can reverse

the proccess by going back to command prompt and entering the following line.

fsutil behavior set memoryusage 1

ReplyAmal says:

May 31, 2010 at 3:46 pm

@Courtney Drebis

Hats off to you for mentioning the great tip. I’ll be posting it soon.

Good Luck and Hope To See You Back.

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jajay says:

June 2, 2010 at 12:54 am

if you need so free up some space, disable hibernate for windows vista/7: run the command

prompt and type “powercfg -h off” (you need to be logged as an administrator to do this).

good luck

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Matt says:

June 4, 2010 at 8:42 pm

My Machine locked up after I set the advanced features from letting windows control it.

anyone know how to stop my pc from locking up using these tips?

why did you delete my other post?

Matty

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Amal says:

June 4, 2010 at 9:01 pm

@Matt

You post wasn’t deleted. It went to the spam list and got missed. You wont get any

troubles using these tips as it have tested it my self. Download Ultimate windows

tweaker utility and do the tweaks. And if you are not a beginner with windows you

can safely disable the uac in windows 7. I hope that will solve your problem..

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Hi, I have to say that after using all your tweaks my system locks up and it

NEVER did that before.

Have any ideas what could be causing the problem? I also am getting internet

explorer messages frequently that say it has stopped functioning and windows

is looking for a solution and I never got those messages at all before. Sorry to

say I am not impressed with all the tweaks and now my system is running

worse! HELP!

Matty

Matt says:

June 5, 2010 at 3:03 am

Hi, I am still locking up and getting windows error msg that it has stopped

working I never had these problems before help me please!

Matty

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Amal says:

June 6, 2010 at 1:45 am

As i said first in the post, you can try restoring the system to a previous

good state. I am sure the tweaks wont cause such problems and it might

be because of some softwares or registry troubles. Also download cc

cleaner and clean the registry. That will fix the problem.

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jabbagrabba says:

June 5, 2010 at 6:24 am

having problems with step 2… cant find “Open classic appearance properties for more color

options”

any help please?

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Amal says:

June 6, 2010 at 1:43 am

Just search “Windows color and metrics” in the start menu and you will get the

classic appearance properties.

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Mohamed says:

June 6, 2010 at 12:18 am

Wooo Thanks for the info , that helped a lot.

but yes we should disable 40% of the windows 7 to work properly. By the way thanks.

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iczey says:

June 6, 2010 at 9:53 pm

this was great… keep it up!

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Will says:

June 11, 2010 at 9:05 pm

It should be noted that Readyboost will shorten a USB drives life by quite a bit, since flash

drives have a fairly limited number of maximum writes in their lifetime, so using it as a

cache means you are constantly writing data to it and quickly eating away at its max writes.

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scarlet says:

June 12, 2010 at 6:11 pm

yea!!… it helps.

really . nice work!

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Bionic John says:

June 16, 2010 at 4:12 pm

Item 16: "Disable Unwanted Start Up Items" was most helpful. I've turned off a lot of stuff I

no longer need. Now loading and running is much sharper.

A very handy tip – many thanks.

John.

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ukama says:

June 17, 2010 at 9:51 am

wow!!!…tnx a lot, cool one dude :)

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fraghat says:

June 29, 2010 at 6:32 pm

Very nice tweaks. Got me a 4 gig external RAM attachment now. Hhahaha

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JCA says:

July 5, 2010 at 6:48 pm

these are one of the tips for boosting up win7. if you'd like to make it super fast, you need to

apply tweaks on your registry & system, defragmenting both your registry and disks,

cleaning registry error(s).

enjoy boosting up your win7!!

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Pong says:

July 6, 2010 at 12:13 pm

Hi big brother of Bimal Roy :D (I wasn't able to find your name in about). Thank you very

much for sharing these information. I haven't tested everything yet (I'm currently at number

12 as I write), even so, using the tips 1 – 11 already improved the speed of my Acer Aspire

One netbook running on Windows 7 Professional.

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I'm looking forward to apply everything you posted here so that my computers will run at

their best all the time. Again, many thanks to you and God bless you big brother of Bimal

Roy :D and all the best for Computing Unleashed!!! :D

P.S. I apologize, but I havn't found your first name yet, may I know the person I'm

thanking? :D

ReplyAmal says:

July 6, 2010 at 5:18 pm

Thank you Pong.

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Pong says:

July 6, 2010 at 12:27 pm

I got it! I've just looked up on previous post :P My bad. Thanks Amal :D

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DigitalNerd says:

July 12, 2010 at 4:13 am

WOW, great information. Thanks a bunch for sharing this. I'll make sure to spread the

knowledge. The tweaks really did help this dinosaur of a machine.

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Miro says:

July 13, 2010 at 6:42 pm

Awesome tweak list!

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NiX Peterson says:

July 14, 2010 at 9:11 am

Turn off System Restore too! One of the biggest resource hogs for any windows machines,

and practically worthless in application.

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Schawjibb says:

July 20, 2010 at 7:31 pm

Thanks a million! It was a great piece of work. I appreciate all of your hard work. :-)

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Nicholas (Computer freak) says:

July 24, 2010 at 12:17 pm

Type msconfig in start menu search, then hit enter. Then (if you want to) tick the box that

says load startup items. Then click on services tab, single click on one service, then type

super fetch. Click on the box. this will save you 80,000 kilobytes of space

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oops i forgot to say that disabling superfetch will disable the readyboost. ps you have to

type it with no spaces

Max - The IT Pro says:

July 31, 2010 at 7:04 pm

Dude, MANY thanks for the tips!! I'm here in East Africa and I just moved the great multi-

talented artist, Theo Stone, at http://theocraft.com over to Windows 7 from XP — all on her

Toshiba Satellite M30X-S214 with a (gasp!) 1.3 Ghz Celeron M processor & 512MB RAM.

I ALWAYS tweak Windows after I do an install but this is a very nice blog post you got

here.

BTW, 7 runs quite nicely on this laptop! I'll apply the teaks after I do a Windows Update,

and I'm sure it'll fly. Big ups to M$ for really delivering a superb OS — this time around. :-)

Cheers!

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Bennet Simonton says:

August 6, 2010 at 2:18 am

I have a new computer with Windows 7, about 2 weeks old at this point. I have already

managed to screw it up, I think. I was using Advanced Registry Optimizer in my old XP

machine and it did speed it up considerably. So I installed and used it twice in this new one.

I just read your Speed up Win 7 and have been taking your recos. I downloaded Wise

Registry Cleaner and installed it. When I attempted to create a restore point, I got an error

message indicating that my system has lost some necessary DLLs are missing thus making

it impossible to create a system restore point.

What if anything can I do about this? Windows 7 can still make a restore point.

Best regards, Ben

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Amal says:

August 6, 2010 at 5:58 pm

I would recommend you to run a system repair using windows 7 installation disc.

That would fix the problem of dll error.

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Mau says:

August 8, 2010 at 7:12 am

Thanks for the tips, some of them really useful. There is one more thing I would like to state

about speeding-up your machine: If you can spend a few more bucks go for the fastest hard-

drive you can.

It does make a difference since HD access is one of the most time-consuming tasks you can

have.

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E-TARD The LifeCaster says:

August 11, 2010 at 8:41 am

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Hay thanks for the post dude :D

there are not many posts out there yet talking about what services are good to turn off in

windows 7 ultimate.

So agan thanks for the tips.

AdeL AbdeL AziM says:

August 11, 2010 at 7:24 pm

Guys !! you rule.

your tips were INCREDIBLE

thanks

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Aji Prabowo says:

August 16, 2010 at 6:20 am

Gotta tried this,.. there are times that my windows seven just sit there appearing to be

working and leaving me in an awe waiting him to load up.

thanks,

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JOJI, Chennai,India says:

September 8, 2010 at 7:14 pm

Dear Amal,

Thanks a lot & I can't describe how I feel seeing increased speed of Win7 & Internet. Hats

off!

And I appreciate your hard work & May God Bless You to bring out more fantastic such

works in the future for the netisons!

Many people just write a blog & never care to come back to feed the QA. But you have

taken such patience & brains to feed the bigger community as to a child and to pacify 'The

Big Brothers' with same ease.

I shall be happy if you can send me your email id.

Again A Big Claps Thanks!!

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Amal says:

September 9, 2010 at 9:45 am

@joji

Thanks for the good words friend. As it is not safe to reveal email address i cant give

it to you through the comment. But You could always contact me using the Contact

Link at the Top of the site. Ill reply you with my email id.

Good Luck

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Mitchell says:

September 19, 2010 at 11:09 am

Thanks so much, this has realy helped speed up my comp :)

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richierich says:

October 7, 2010 at 6:12 am

Thanks..i ony ended up using 2 of these tips but it definately made a difference! im using a

toshiba satellite with windows 7 64bit turion core 2 duo and 4gm ram..with 6gb

readyboost..and i really dont wait for ANYTHING! this thing moves no matter what..i still

have most appearance eye candy ON and use search feature often but i canceled some stuff

from startup and changed the power settings and it just goes…Thanks!

For all of you giving negative remarks and contraindicating his tips…give it a rest..hes

trying to help…if someone has a super fast computer they will probably never open this

page…im a perfectionist so i did but i really didnt need to and i STILL found some of the

tips useful!

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DMX says:

November 21, 2010 at 5:21 pm

I can't thank you enough for your great tutorial ,the "TCP Optimizer" really did speed up my

connection speed.I have 1mb dsl connection speed and I used to have 64 kb/

s when i download a file .Now with "TCP Optimizer" I get 102 kb/s maximum :)

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burnkrazy says:

April 24, 2011 at 2:50 am

you rock man !!!!!!!

7 faster than ever

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