Speed Up My Computer - Comments Page 1

Some other things worth mentioning:

1. disable unnecessary startup items to load windows faster. ccleaner (2 c's) has a nice tool to see what is starting up via registry and start menu entries.

2. disable all unnecessary services. You need to know what you're doing, but it can free up memory and windows load time. Obviously a certain amount of knowledge of system services is needed, but there are some good writeups in the internet.

3. For really old machines, turning off themes and disabling features in the advanced page of the system properties in XP will speed things up as well

4. Get an antivirus/antispyware program that isn't a memory and resource hog like MOST of them out there. I use Vipre and love it.

5. Disable unneeded features in Internet Explorer. NOBODY needs five toolbars.

6. Add a second hard drive and specify that the pagefile use that drive instead of the system drive. An old spare drive that's collecting dust will do. If you're short on space, it can also be used for data, but don't use it for programs.

7 - just a note. Be careful when deleting temp files especially those from downloaded installs. Often times it's impossible to uninstall programs without the source files.

Hope that helps.

Great information...thanks. I will try some of them.

For a geekier approach to see what's running on your PC, Microsoft offers a couple of free tools developed by Sysinternals: Autoruns for startup programs and Process Explorer (kinda like task manager on steroids.) Both utilities are free and can be downlowded and installed from these sites. You'll also get some info on how to make the most of them.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx >autoruns

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx >process explorer

If you don't want to permanently install either utility you can run them from your browser by visiting this site. Just select autoruns.exe and/or procexp.exe.

http://live.sysinternals.com/

it's Not Mentioned Here! But Everyone Should Grab the Free Program Revo-uninstaller it's a Great Program with some extra Nifty tools! Also I Dump my all the Items in Prefetch Every Few Days! it's in your Windows Folder! it Doesn't Seem to Hurt Anything! and I Do Notice A Slight improvement of Speed especially When i,m Watching a Movie on Netflix instant Watch!
Joe M Says Disable Some Running Services! it is Very Hard to Learn or Know JUST What Running Services Should Be Disabled? I see them! But I Sure Don't Know Which ones Should Be Disabled!
Please Post a Link For us.to find out i,m on a 64 Bit Vista Quad Thanks!

Dear Bob,
Joe M says to be careful when deleting temporary files especially those from downloaded installs because sometimes it is impossible to uninstall programs without the source files. How do I know the difference? On my computer (Gateway, Windows XP), in disk cleanup, I only have one box to check to delete the temporary files. How do I know if I am deleting something that needs to stay?
Thanks much,
Nezzar

Hi, quite useful tips in speeding up computer.

I also have some tips:

Uninstall some programs that you seldom use.

It is undoubted that they take up too much space without doing any tangible things for computer.

It is better to get rid of them, along with some useless functions such as “Error Reporting” and “Hibernation” which mean nothing for you but occupy the space.

Normally, when computer memory is too low, virtual memory will be created to solve such problem temporarily.

You can set the value of virtual memory by hand. However too large or too small values can do harm to computer. You should set proper value for the maximum and minimum values respectively.

Is there a Performance Test for Ubuntu Linux?

Beware! PC Optimizer Pro is trialware not FREE! The add says nothing about trialware.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Thanks for the heads up. Did you try the free trial version? If so, what's your impression of the software?

Bob, You wrote about Error-checking and automatically fixing file system errors. Is it safe to let some computer program decide what to do with my disk? Sure, if the file system has an error, maybe it's already so bad there's nothing to lose. But I've never trusted computer programs, even (especially) the ones I wrote.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Computer programs are the ONLY things that can affect your disk! It would be quite a task to manually inspect the structure of the file system, and figure out how to fix it.

Acronis backup runs a couple of services all the time. You can't run the program if the services are not running. I backup every few days, but I have to keep the services running so I don't have to start three or four programs manually every time I wish to backup. It would be nice if vendors knew how to keep their products out of the way.

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my pc freezes quite often what to do please ?

How to get rid of buffering problems when watching a video link. Operating system is Vista.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Things most likely to help are adding RAM, and getting a faster internet connection. If you are on dialup, and even some slower DSL lines, you won't have a good online video experience.

Thank you for the effort of sharing this helpful information to us. Many of us are actually having problems with our slow PC and we need this.Currently I'm using Regcure for optimizing my pc but I want to try out the software you mentioned here: Advanced System Care. I already downloaded it from here. I'll just post another comment if all are fine with this registry cleaner. Also, I'll follow your tips. ;')