Speed Up Windows 7

In addition to Black Viper's excellent website I'd also recommend looking through the Performance & Maintenance section here:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/

For free personal use only, Belarc Advisor shows you the number of cores your CPU has, as well as a pile of other useful information about your PC.
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

While it's nice to have a fast PC, it's also nice to make use of the features your PC came with as appropriate for what you do. I love Aero!

OMG! Amazing boot tip re the dual core processor. Thank you! My Win7 & WinXP Pro desktops now boot even faster than before!

Thanks for these tips! Although, increasing your start-up speed by changing your CPU setting will not work. We did a test to see if this was possible and our test results show that it’s false. How were you able to prove this? What kind of test did you performed? If you would like to check out our results please click here http://bit.ly/d5cZHk

These tips are always useful, although is not advisable to turn off some of Win services. You never know what the user will need to run. But even turning off all the services, it is not a big help when we are talking about an OS that consumes all the resources available to do simple tasks.

I'm struggling with Win 7 on my laptop because seems that an Intel 1.30 GHz and 3 GiB RAM is not enough to keep Win 7 running fast. Ubuntu however, that is installed on the second partition, fly like a bird with all the services and fancy animations turned on.

So far, the only machine that I saw running Win 7 perfectly was an Intel Duo Core 2.5 GHz with 6 (six) MiB DDR3. Is that really necessary all that? Soon we will need a NASA computer to run Windows.

Anyone claiming the "enable more processors" item from msconfig speeds ANYTHING up, is experiencing the placebo effect. According Microsoft support (multiple confirmations)all cores are enabled by default. The ONLY use for the "enable more processors" option is strictly for testing your system using LESS than your maximum number of core. As one MSMVP succinctly put it, "this option absolutely does not speed up boot time...."

Re: The "enable more processors" tweak in msconfig. I have a dual core laptop. I looked at this setting and the check box next to "1" is ticked. The option to check the box for "2" processors is there. So which is it... is my machine using only one out of two processors or is it really using both processors? If it's using both processors by default, why is the box for "1" processor checked? According to the article and Jim Green wouldn't this mean my laptop is being LIMITED to one processor? Shouldn't the box for "2" be checked?

Follow-up info re: "enable more processors" tweak. I opened Task Manager while the box for "1" processor was checked. I clicked on the Performance tab and was presented with a single CPU Usage History graph. I ran 5 separate cold boots, timed them with a stopwatch from the moment I hit the power button until my desktop appeared and my network connection became functional. My average re-boot time was 78 seconds.

I went to msconfig, changed the box to "2" processors, and went back to Task Manager. I now show two separate graphs for CPU Usage History. Next, I repeated the 5 separate cold boots and got an average boot time of 67 seconds. Seems obvious that changing the msconfig from "1" processor to "2" processors had an effect on my machine.

Maybe an 11 second decrease in boot time isn't all that earth-shattering. And maybe the fact that Task Manager now shows two graphs instead of one is merely coincidental. And certainly, this was not a scientifically controlled experiment using multiple computers with multiple types of processors. But I have to conclude that SOMETHING changed and it was more than a placebo effect. Based on my own observations I would recommend that people go to msconfig > boot tab > advanced options and make sure your computer hasn't been LIMITED by default.

thanx for inprovement like speed up my win 7...

Manually tuning your system is not a good choice and may have bad side effects which cannot be recovered. It's better to use a good and comprehensive tuning software already tested and approved. A very good example which I like is TuneUp Utilities.

Hey! Thanks for mentioning about service configurations. Usually, i checked the box named "Hide all Microsoft services and remove some unnecessary services. Here is my guide. Hope it also helps

http://hubpages.com/hub/speed-up-Windows-7-Slow

@Frank: your page is unpublished. If you ever want to republish it or let us know why you removed it, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks Bob; arrived here from your email and tore into services.msc. Sure helped me id what was going on and what wasn't needed. Now to see if there's any improvement. Wins7 keeps growing and I've been trying to make more room on this partition. Also ran task manager and found that Google chrome browser uses a bunch more resources than Opera browser. Netflix doesn't work on Opera without some sort of browser fix. Had Firefox for years but since version 10 it kept CRASHING and I ditched it yesterday. Really disappointing when filling out job applications. Will visit the Black Viper site for other suggestions. Thanks again.

I really like Process Explorer to help determine unneeded processes. It's like Task Manager (on crack) pardon the pun. I wrote a guide on http://fixingaslowcomputer.com showing how to use it on the post called "Too Many Programs Running at Once". I hope you find it useful. Feel free to leave a comment.