You can check the list for your PC by running msconfig, a built-in Windows utility. Click the Start menu, type Run , press Enter , and then type msconfig in the Run box.
Click the Services tab. List of services that open at startup on a typical working system, as identified by msconfig. In addition to disabling all of the services shown in the above list, I disabled six Microsoft Windows services from starting on boot:. And these changes only scratch the surface. Another item that you might disable on startup is Remote Login if you never use it. The right choices depend on your needs. After disabling the extraneous application services and a handful of Microsoft services, I found that the system now took 68 seconds to boot—not much of an improvement.
The next step was to disable a few startup applications. Here is the list on my test system. Most of the listed startup applets are at least occasionally useful, but none are essential from the get-go.
I can manually check for Adobe updates, let QuickTime and Acrobat start a tiny bit slower when I need them, and so on. So l just unchecked all of the applets on the Startup list. Disabling startup applications and a few services trimmed 11 seconds off a second boot time—an improvement of nearly 16 percent. The Asus P6T6 Deluxe motherboard on my test system has two ethernet connectors, but I need only one of them.
The motherboard is also set up to check the optical drive to see whether it contains a bootable CD or DVD—and only after that, to try to boot off the hard drive.
So on my system, disabling a few unused BIOS items netted a savings of 5 seconds at bootup. Not bad. Does cleaning the Registry of unused or orphan database entries lead to faster boot times? A number of articles suggest that it does, but many of them base that conclusion on rather extreme testing—loading up a system with a lot of junk, and then using a Registry cleaner to remove the new additions. But how effective are they on system whose encrustation of junk occurred naturally?
Ccleaner scans and cleans out the system; but does doing so improve boot times? Both of those can improve system responsiveness. You might expect changing the boot timeout not to have much impact, since all it does is specify how long Windows may display an automatic menu, such as the Startup Repair menu. But it turns out that changing the boot timeout does affect boot performance. Change the boot timeout from 30 to 10 seconds. The default boot timeout setting on my test PC was 30 seconds; but 10 seconds should give users sufficient time to respond to any menus that Windows may present.
This was a repeatable test. Just be careful about what you choose. I've long felt that Microsoft's OEMs sometimes actively work against the Redmond behemoth and sully the company's name. Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of what has become known as "bloatware. Frankly, this is one of the reasons that I believe that Microsoft's Surface announcement, in which Microsoft noted that it would make its own device, is brilliant.
The company needs to start with a clean slate in some ways no pun intended. If your PC shipped with a bunch of stuff you'll never use, get rid of that software. If the software adds items to the startup process, getting rid of it will make the PC start faster and, ultimately, perform better overall. If you're running Windows, you need to be running an anti-malware program to keep viruses and spyware off your system. Nothing will ruin good performance like a boatload of spyware. My personal favorite and free!
In my experience, it's been successful in catching bad stuff while not significantly degrading system performance itself. How much RAM do you have? Is your system consuming all or most of your RAM? Does the system page out to disk? If so, you're suffering a massive performance hit, which can be solved by adding more memory to your PC.
Greg Shultz explains how to do this by using Resource Monitor. Solid state is all the rage these days, and with good reason.
It's fast! More and more laptops and even desktops are moving to the technology because of the performance benefits. Solid state disks use memory cells from which data can be read very quickly, as opposed to the relatively plodding nature of rotational storage. By moving to SSD, you can give your Windows 7 system renewed life -- and give yourself a whole new user experience.
But SSDs can be expensive, so you need to be smart about how to use them in the most cost-effective way.
This one is easy! When you're plugged in, configure Windows 7's power plans to favor performance over power savings. When you choose to use Windows 7' high performance power plan, you might increase the computer's performance in some but not all circumstances. It really depends on the kind of work you're doing and how often you allow the computer to sit idle.
For more about how these plans operate, see Evaluate the efficiency of Windows 7 power plan settings. If you're using a traditional spinning disk in your Windows 7 system, you can keep your system operating at peak efficiency by periodically defragmenting the hard drive.
If, however, you've opted to go with SSD-based storage, don't do this. First, you won't get any performance benefit and second, you'll significantly reduce the life of that expensive SSD. Disk defragmentation is scheduled to take place once per week, but you can change this by going to Start Accessories System Tools Disk Defragmenter Figure D.
In addition to changing the schedule, you can run an on-demand defrag from here. You can also run a defrag from the command line instead of from a GUI. Bill Detwiler's video explains how. Windows 7's search is good, but it can also affect system performance. If you really need to run a tool at full tilt, you can disable indexing altogether.
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