Windows 7 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 optimize Windows 7 to the maximum possible extent and enjoy the maximum performance we could squeeze out from it. So for all the extra performance lovers, let me present you wit this Ultimate Guide To Speed Up Windows 7.
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 desktop and select “Manage”.
- Click “Services and Applications” in the “Computer Management” window.
- Click on “Services”.
- You can see a lot of services listed there. Look for “Windows Search” in that.
- 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 “OK” and that’s it. The Windows 7 Search Indexing Feature is now disabled.
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”.
- Then a window will open up. Apply a Standard or Basic theme from it. The Standard Windows 7 theme is more preferred.
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 screen shot if you have any doubt.
- Now just logoff your system and turn logon.
Disabling the Unwanted Services to Speed up Windows 7
Disable the User account control (UAC) Feature in Windows 7
- From the Control Panel open the ” User Accounts and Family Safety ” > User Account.
- Click the User Account Control settings link.
- Now just Drag the Slider towards “Never Notify”.
- Click “OK” and Reboot your system.
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.
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.
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.
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 taskbar and select ” Properties “.
- Now untick the ” Use Aero Peek to preview the desktop ” option from there.
Change the Power Plan To Maximum Performance
- 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.
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Disable the Thumbnail Preview Feature to speed up File browsing in Windows 7
- Double Click on ” Computer ” >click on the “Organize” drop-down menu and select the “Folder and Search options”
- Under ‘Files and Folders’ section, go to the “View” tab and tick the check box showing “Always show icons, never thumbnails” checkbox.
Most Essential Softwares To Speed Up Windows 7
Registry Tweaks to Speed Up Windows 7
Turn OFF Windows 7 Password Protection To save a few More Seconds!!!
Turn OFF Windows 7 Screen Saver and Wallpaper
- 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”.
Disable Unwanted Start Up Items and Speed Up Windows 7 Start Up
- 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
Disable Unwanted System Sounds in Windows 7
- 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.
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).
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 speed boost 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.
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.
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 print.
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.
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.
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 applications such as Adobe Photoshop etc.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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 7,
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 download 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.
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.
http://www.computingunleashed.com/2009/01/registrytweaks-for-speeding-up-windows.html
If 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.
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 automatically 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
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,
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.
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.
Do you know any more ways to Speed Up Windows 7? Comment them below. I will include them in the post.
very good for extreme gammers, xp lovers and crappy pc's
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.
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 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.
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
YOU ROCK, nice tips cheers bro!!!!
GREAT TIPS MAN
THEY REALLY ORK
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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
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Excellent work, such great advice, many thanks for all of your hard work and effort on this, much appreciated.
All the best
defragmetation
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!!!
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.
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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Thanks mate..i really appreciated it.
Say good bye to slow windows7.
thanks for tips, my windows 7 was so slow now it is normal :) thanks
really thanks, my pc is more faster :)
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
There are many reasons to use windows 7 rather than considering the visual eye candies.
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.
Thanks for tips. It’s useful.
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
thank u very much!!!this is really effective.
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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}
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
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.
It is good tip for increasing windows 7 speed.
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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Extremly helpful windows7 Is fast as hell for me,Thanks~Joe.
Nice Tips, I will really use them when I get my notebook, hopefully.
Thanks!.
WOW thank you for the time you put up to do this tutorial. Really helpful, thank you once again.
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.
Sure Sam, you are right. I have done it accordingly, thanks so much for the suggestion.
Yeah, i know one which is useless…its Windows Defender….can be easely disabled from Services….give it a try…
I was considering getting another OS and stumbled across this. Happy i did, thx for the time and effort you invested.
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
Yep it works for pc’s with processors upto 2 only.
I want to disable all AERO features what are used with windows apps under windows 7. how can I do this<
Type disable aero in windows 7 start and press enter. Then on the opened window untick enable transparency.
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
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.
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/
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! :=)
ehm… i found it.
just start up the search service from administrative options > Services.
Thanks for the great tips.
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?
Yeah if you are aiming at performance and if your processor supports the 64 bit technology then go ahead with the 64-bit version.
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.
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
-run this tool once in a day also..
For any more query you can mail me at ashish0015@gmail.com
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..
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
this link is not working….amal
Hey its working fine. Check this one too. http://www.d-a-l.com/help/windows-me-help/931-windows-me-fails-start.html
if i make windows 7 ultimate final faster wht will be problems in future.any problems when i install any software or any update
Dont worry it wont cause any problem.
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Thanks Rajesh for the support.
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).
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
windows=bloody hell complicated
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
Dinesh, Yeah nice list just read them. Thanks For including my post :)
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!
@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.
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
@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.
where do u find “Open classic appearance properties for more color options” ????
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 :)
epic fail “Open up ” Programs and Features ” from Control Panel.” Where the hell is that?
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 ”.
comon guys, pay some respect to the man, he worked hard to make this page
“Now click on the ” Make it easier to focus on tasks ” seen at the bottom in there” Ummmm… WHERE????
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
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??
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.
Hmm Great and brealent job nice work thanks a lot
Regard
Ch.M.Faisal Javed
great. jeez thanks
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.
GREAT JOB GUYS,THANKS!!!
Great tips. Most of them are applicable on Windows xp as well…Most essential software list could have been better.
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
This is great. Thanks!!
1) Right click at Computer > Properties.
2) Lower left corner, click at Performance Information & Tools.
3) Upper left corner, click at Adjust Visual Effects.
4) U know what to do..
wow.. it works.. thanks very much.
before this my windows 7 was really slow.
This is fantastic. thanks a lot.
The “List of services in Windows 7 that can be safely set to manual / disabled” link is broken.
Thanks fot notifying it friend. Fixed it now.
Great guide thanks – my Windows 7 is now faster than a greased weasel.
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
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..
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
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.
“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. :)
@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 7.
Thanks friend and Good Luck :)
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.
@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 inside the cabinet. That should bring down the temperature if dust was the problem.
Good Luck Friend.
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.
@ Ahmed
Thanks a lot friend. The same issue had happened before too. Fixed it now.
Good Luck Friend
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.
pls send me tips to highly speed up my startup
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.
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
Great reading made a huge change in the speed that my computer ran. Thanks for the tips!!!!
Well put together and very helpfull.
Thanks very much !
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”.
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.
Turn off User Authentication mode to ensure your machine can run faster without prompting 3 or 4 times upon deleting files or file modification.
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
@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.
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
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
@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..
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
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
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.
having problems with step 2… cant find “Open classic appearance properties for more color options”
any help please?
Just search “Windows color and metrics” in the start menu and you will get the classic appearance properties.
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.
this was great… keep it up!
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.
yea!!… it helps.
really . nice work!
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.
wow!!!…tnx a lot, cool one dude :)
Very nice tweaks. Got me a 4 gig external RAM attachment now. Hhahaha
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!!
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.
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
Thank you Pong.
I got it! I've just looked up on previous post :P My bad. Thanks Amal :D
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.
Awesome tweak list!
Turn off System Restore too! One of the biggest resource hogs for any windows machines, and practically worthless in application.
Thanks a million! It was a great piece of work. I appreciate all of your hard work. :-)
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
oops i forgot to say that disabling superfetch will disable the readyboost. ps you have to type it with no spaces
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!
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
I would recommend you to run a system repair using windows 7 installation disc. That would fix the problem of dll error.
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.
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.
Guys !! you rule.
your tips were INCREDIBLE
thanks
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,
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!!
@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