6 Tips for How to Increase Computer Speed

One day, you feels your computer too slow. Your computer starts slow, time for shut down increase, programs and games always crash or freeze...

In this tutorial, I will show you How to Increase Computer Speed, your computer will look like new. Here is small tips but very useful for everyone and easy to do.

How to Increase Computer Speed Include 7 Tips:

1. System Settings

2. Turn off unnecessary Services

3. Adjusted Registry

4. Setting programs on Window startup

5. Uninstall useless Programs

6. Turn off Features

1. System Settings

A) Theme

From Window 7, computer interface is optimized very beautiful, shadow effect, transparent effect,... The Theme will consume a lot of resources, including GPU, CPU and RAM. If your computer's configuration is not really strong, you should be use the Windows Classic Theme. Sacrifice beautiful interface to help your computer run faster.

B) Performance Settings

There are many effects - Visual Effects make Windows beautiful, and of course they consume a lot of resources. Disabling them and your computer will speed up.

On window 7, click on Start button => Right click and choose Computer after that choose Properties. Next, choose Advanced system settings => Choose Settings. Interface Performance Settings will show up.

On window 8, move your mouse to right corner of screen. Choosing Search and find "Performance".

Performance Options will same in window 7 and window 8,... For best optimizer mode for your computer do step by step:

1. First, choose Adjust for best performance

2. At the bottom of the screen select Smooth edges of screen fonts - To ensure good font display.

3. Steps 1 and 2 are the optimal performance for computer speed but Windows interface will monotonic. You can select some of the items below to look better, but the more selectively, the more resources consuming.

After you done, click Apple => OK.

C) User Account Control

The computer will check and show the dialog asking you to confirm when to install the software, install the settings. This ensures security, however, these dialogs cause delay, increasing the time required to operate as well as slow down the computer. My advice is setting User Account Control to the lowest level, no more notifications.

On Window 7, choose Start => Find "UAC" and open User Account Control

On Window 8, open Search => Find "UAC"

D) Settings Power Plan

There are 3 power plan: Power Save, Balanced, High Performance. If you want to save energy, you can select Power Saver. But your computer will slow down too. So, if you still want to use the highest speed of your computer, choosing Balanced or High Performance.

E) Turn off Thumbnail

Click on Start button (or Charmbar), find "folder and search". Click view tab => Unmark Display file icon on thumbnails. After that, you clicks Apply => OK

2. Turn off unnecessary Services

There are many services that can be shut down without affecting the system. It is important to know what you can turn off, and what is not allowed to shut down. Here is a list of what can be disabled:

1. Application experience
2. Desktop Windows Manager
3. Session Manager
4. Diagnostic Policy Service
5. Distributed Link Tacking Client
6. IP Helper
7. Offline Files
8. Portable Device Enumerator Service
9. Protected Storage
10. Security Center
11. Tablet PC Input Service
12. TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
13. Themes
14. Windows Error Reporting Service
15. Windows Media Center Service Launcher
16. Windows Search

Some Services may be useful sometimes. You may consider before disabling them. But do not worry, if you need it, you can turn it back.

You can open services tab by following these steps: type "services" on Search Bar of Start button (or Charmbar)

Right click on a service => choose Properties. Here you can stop, pause, resume, start.

3. Adjusted Registry

If you don't know too much about computer, you should skip this part. To enter the Registry interface do the following: Press the keyboard shortcut: Windows + R to open the RUN dialog box. Then, type in "regedit" and enter.

Optimize system performance:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]

Edit “DisablePagingExecutive” = dword:00000001

Prefetcher tweak (faster booting)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters]

Edit “EnablePrefetcher” = dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction]

“Enable” = “Y”

Shut down a computer faster

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control]

“WaitToKillServiceTimeout” = “2000”

Enable quick reboot

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]

“EnableQuickReboot” = “1”

Large system cache

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]

“LargeSystemCache” = dword:00000001

Force windows to unload unused dlls from memory

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]

“AlwaysUnloadDLL” = dword:00000001

CD-ROM speed up

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\CDFS]

“Prefetch” = dword:00004000

“PrefetchTail” = dword:00004000

“CacheSize” = hex:ff,ff,00,00

Speed up opening of “My Computer”

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

“NoRemoteRecursiveEvents” = dword:00000001

Speed up opening of “Start Menu”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]

“MenuShowDelay” = “4”

Launch Explorer as a separate process

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Advanced]

“SeparateProcess” = dword:00000001

4. Setting programs on Window startup

There are many useless programs startup with your computer. You can turn it off and make your computer faster. Press the key combination: Window + R (To left of Alt). Typing "msconfig" and enter, System Configuration will show up. Then, you chooses Startup Tab. Here you can turn off some programs like: Google, Skype,... Don't worry anything.

5. Uninstall useless Programs

Computers often slow down when you install a lot of software, games into the computer. Also there are many junk tools, junk software you accidentally installed on your computer, they slow down the computer. So, you must be install them to make your computer speed up.

On Window 7, Click Start => Control Panel => Programs and Features

On Window 8 , Press the key combination: Windows + X. After that, click Programs and Features.

Programes and Feateres Tab will appear. Next, choosing unecessary programs => Uninstall

6. Turn off Features

Like the programs in the Programs section, the Features also slow down the computer. There are
some that you can turn them off.

On Programs and Features tab, you clicks Turn Windows features on or off. Here are some Features you can turn off:

1. Games

2. Internet Explorer

3. Media Features

4. Print and Document Services (if you do not print)

5. Tablet PC Components

6. Windows Gadget Platform

7. Windows Search

Summary

Hope that the ways to speed up this computer will be useful to you. You do not need to apply all the way, and apply the same as you specify. Make the most optimal and simple for you.

Also rebooting when feeling slow and stuck may be a temporary but effective solution for better performance.