Top 10 ways to speed up your computer

This was extremely helpful. My system is faster than it was. I will be looking into possible hardware upgrades as well.

I upgraded my pc with 1 gigabyte more of memory and it really helped alot.

Cleaning the Prefetch folder is a Myth and will REDUCE performance:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html

Hi Andrew
That is a great resource you have made there. I have heard debates on both sides of the prefetch debate and will certainly investigate it more now.

Thanks a lot!

Thanks for the article. It really helped me improve my pc’s performance to some extent. Keep it up.

As to the prefetch debate http://blogs.msdn.com/ryanmy/archive/2005/05/25/421882.aspx this is the opinion of a Microsoft Developer.

To paraphrase:
“XP systems have a Prefetch directory underneath the windows root directory, full of .pf files — these are lists of pages to load. The file names are generated from hashing the EXE to load — whenever you load the EXE, we hash, see if there’s a matching (exename)-(hash).pf file in the prefetch directory, and if so we load those pages. (If it doesn’t exist, we track what pages it loads, create that file, and pick a handful of them to save to it.) So, first off, it is a bad idea to periodically clean out that folder as some tech sites suggest. For one thing, XP will just re-create that data anyways; secondly, it trims the files anyways if there’s ever more than 128 of them so that it doesn’t needlessly consume space. So not only is deleting the directory totally unnecessary, but you’re also putting a temporary dent in your PC’s performance.”

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Which came first? I’ve got a feeling this PC911 blog entry:
http://www.mattasoft.com.au/Brochure.pdf

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Good day!,

Thank you so much. 🙂 I used the tips you gave in this article to clean up my mother’s computer and it is running so much better. Its an older machine, but enough for her to keep in touch with friends and family via email, so if I can keep it going by maintaining it a little she is happy. Thanks again.

Thanks for the info. A lot of good tips in that list. I think it could be a good idea to elaborate on what services to disable and what not to disable. Also, I have used pc bug doctor and liked it.

I am a advocate of registry cleaners. It pays to use one whether it is free or paid. The paid might get you a better performance, but the free ones also work pretty well. I think a lot of sluggishness has to do with the registry especially if you have enough ram and have run a anti-virus program and a spyware program and they found nothing.

thanks you for this useful guid and since i found out about this site…i think i have made my computer a bit faster than it was…and still finding out about more info on yours site…

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There is obviously a great deal to study about this topic. I think you made some good points.

You appear to know a great deal about this 🙂

thanks for this, I genuinely enjoy hearing your views.

This list is cool to fine-tune a computer manually. Having said that, one needs to be very careful especially when editing the Windows registry. Sometimes, better not touch something that’s working “fine”.

Intriguing. You make a superb thought.

Outstanding blog, thank you for sharing your views

I agree with most said except for registry cleanups. It’s risky. Tackling the Windows registry requires knowledge in the first place, and each and every piece of software that deals with registry should be used for very specific tasks. A registry cleaner is NOT a cure that fixes problems and makes system fast. I’ve seen too many people who destroyed their computers by running registry cleaners.

Thank you this is an excellent post.

Clean up registry errors is the best way to make your computer quicker… get a registry cleaner people… they really help.

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Thank you for this. # 9 helped big time. I had no idea about the paging file setting.

Any idea when this was posted?

Hi Jill
This was posted about a year ago, still very relevant though. It can help you speed up your computer quite a bit.

Slow problem is a common event for Windows user.

“No matter how fast or shiny computers might be when they’re new, they all seem to get slower over time.” Microsoft claimed that on their technical forum(Windows 7 forum).

In fact, Windows built-in a lot of services and startup item start with system. So if you want a faster computer, you need to disable some of them first.

Any problems? Welcome to discuss with me! Enjoy it !

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All these things are good for make your PC faster but the registry is also a part of our PC. It contain many type of key of every action which we do on PC, So if you see your PC run slow so clean your window registry also with better registry cleaner software for fast speed PC.

computer is a working great now thanks!

I have found myself trying to find a way to speed up my computer for quite some time! Hopefully this helps!

Excellent.! This is certainly precisely what I seem to have been hunting for. Exactly how long did it take to write this ? Thanks a bucket load for this fantastic information!!

Like PC Booster said above, cleaning your pc’s registery is a very important inregards to your computer performance.

Thanks a bunch for helping me speed up my pc

Great tips for speeding up a computer. This will be useful for a lot of people with very little computer knowledge.

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