Five free methods to turbocharge your PC's performance
Is your computer sluggish? Or perhaps your computer is crashing more frequently than usual. If so, your computer may be getting old. The aging process affects PCs exactly as it does people; therefore, yes, it is correct.
However, there is good news.
But unlike people, you can genuinely stop time from passing and revive your cherished computer. A few simple steps will restore your PC's performance to its previous peak levels.
Just adhere to these simple instructions:
OL for system configuration
Your computer can be running at least 50 apps even while it is idle! These are apps that are consuming a lot of RAM as well as your CPU, which is a poor old thing. This is due to the fact that when you install more software, more junk accumulates over time. Even if you never use a program, there's a strong possibility that it's still operating in the background.
To see what I mean, press CTRL + ALT + DELETE and navigate to the Processes tab.It will display the number of background processes that are active.
2. From the System Settings window that opens, select the STARTUP tab.
3. After choosing the STARTUP tab, all of the apps that are currently operating in the background of your PC will be shown. I suggest shutting off everything but your antivirus program.
If you notice anything you want to run in the background, like MSN Massager, by all means leave it on. However, the more background processes your computer has running, the slower it will be to start up.
1. To resolve this little conundrum, open the Run (or Start) menu for Windows XP users, and type MSCONFIG.
Part 2 of the system configuration utility
While you're still in the System Configuration Utility, select the second tab, SERVICES, and click the HIDE ALL MICROSOFT SERVICES checkbox. Unless you're a little more experienced, we have to do this because if you go ahead and turn one of Microsoft's services on, you might easily ruin your entire PC , and we don't want that, do we?
After unticking the box, you should only be left with non-Microsoft services.
Again, I advise disabling all of them except for the antivirus services. Once you've chosen what should be cut and what shouldn't, simply click "apply" to finish.
Performance Alternatives
This might make or break it, depending on the operating system (OS) you're running. Using Windows Vista? On lower-end PCs, I would suggest turning off some of the visual effects. The performance will be less amazing if you're using XP, but I think every bit of performance is important. In any case, you won't even realize that half of these are off.
substantially different from those in Vista and XP. I'll just advise Vista owners to type "performance" into the search box, choose "Performance Information and Tools," and then click "Adjust Visual Effects" to get around this problem (which is probably also a cop-out).
Read on, XP owners:
1. Select Performance and Maintenance under Control Panel in the Start menu.
2. After that, you need to locate yourself in ADJUST VISUAL EFFECTS.
At this point, I advise turning off everything but the final one. The final one maintains the contemporary Windows vibe, which I personally prefer, but everyone is different.
Uninstalling
A speedy hard drive is a blank hard disk. Consequently, if your hard disk is completely full, eliminate the apps and games you don't use to speed it up and watch those boot times fly!
Tip: If you're a gamer (like me), you may remove the whole game after saving your gaming progress. In this manner, you may regain the desired gigabytes of disk space without losing your position in Crysis. Nice, huh.
Defragging
There are countless other suggestions I would want to give you, but I wanted to make this essay as brief as possible to avoid boring you to death. Defragmenting my computer would be the absolute last thing I do after optimizing it.
Now, you're probably saying to yourself, "Yes, James, I already know that." But if you're using the infamous Vista defragger, I would advise switching to a different defragger.
As you can probably tell, I despise Vista's defragger since I believe it to be a step backwards rather than forward. But the thing that aggravates me the most about it is that you don't know how long it will take or how defragmented your hard drive is.
But don't worry; I'll show you how to obtain one that is much better than Vista's own poor effort. Its name is Auslogics Disk Defragger, and I believe you'll find it to be quick and simple to use as well as doing an excellent job overall.
Another point is that downloading it is also totally free. Simply search for "Auslogics Disk Defragger" on Google, and you should find it right away.
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