{"id":1114,"date":"2011-07-03T17:53:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T12:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mohamediqbalp.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/03\/top-12-ways-to-speed-up-windows-7\/"},"modified":"2011-07-03T17:53:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T12:23:18","slug":"top-12-ways-to-speed-up-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/top-12-ways-to-speed-up-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 12 ways to speed up Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Speed Up Windows 7 \u2013 Ultimate Guide To Make Windows 7 Blazing Fast!!!<\/h1>\n<p>Windows<br \/> 7 is Engineered for speed. Special attention has been given by the <br \/>Windows 7 team for making Windows 7 faster than the previous operating <br \/>systems. Windows 7 is much faster than Windows Vista, but even then most<br \/> of us don\u2019t get satisfied with it. There are many who still have their <br \/>old PC. Installing Windows 7 on them wont be as soothing as they work <br \/>with with XP and Even with latest hardware\u2019s installed some users still <br \/>long for more performance. At least if we don\u2019t make it lightning fast <br \/>we can optimize Windows 7 to the maximum possible extent and enjoy the <br \/>maximum performance we could squeeze out from it. So for all the extra <br \/>performance lovers, let me present you wit this Ultimate Guide To <a title=\"Speed Up Windows 7\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computingunleashed.com\/2009\/06\/speed-up-windows-7-ultimate-guide-to.html\">Speed Up Windows 7<\/a>.<span id=\"more-146\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"fullpost\"><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.computingunleashed.com\/cu\/uploads\/speed-up-windows-7-meter.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.computingunleashed.com\/cu\/uploads\/speed-up-windows-7-meter.jpg\" style=\"float:right;cursor:pointer;width:250px;height:187px;display:block;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" title=\"Speed Up Windows 7 - The Ultimate Guide To  Make Windows 7 Blazing Fast\" alt=\"speed up windows 7 meter Speed Up Windows 7   Ultimate Guide To Make Windows 7 Blazing Fast!!!\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I guarantee that after following this guide and implementing the <br \/>recommendations on your PC, you will really get the performance gain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The bare <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Minimum Requirements You need To Run Windows 7<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1) 1GHz processor (32- or 64-bit)<br \/> 2) 1GB of main memory<br \/> 3) 16GB of available disk space<br \/> 4) Support for DX9 graphics with 128MB of memory (for the Aero interface)<br \/> 5) A DVD \u2013 R\/W drive<\/p>\n<p>Even if you don\u2019t have the <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">DX 9 graphics card<\/span><br \/> there is no problem because our target is performance and not the \u201d <br \/>Eyecandy \u201d . Of course if you need the aero experience you need a <br \/>powerful graphics card for sure.<\/p>\n<p>So lets start<strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"> The Ultimate Guide to Speed up Windows 7<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h3>Disabling the Search Indexing Feature in Windows 7<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Right Click the \u201cComputer\u201d Icon in the desktop and select \u201cManage\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Click \u201cServices and Applications\u201d in the \u201cComputer Management\u201d  window.<\/li>\n<li>Click on \u201cServices\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>You can see a lot of services listed there. Look for \u201cWindows  Search\u201d in that.<a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.computingunleashed.com\/cu\/uploads\/disable-search-indexing-in-Windows-7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.computingunleashed.com\/cu\/uploads\/disable-search-indexing-in-Windows-7.jpg\" style=\"display:inline;\" title=\"Disable the Search  Indexing Feature in Windows 7\" alt=\"disable search indexing in Windows 7 Speed Up Windows 7   Ultimate Guide To Make Windows 7 Blazing Fast!!!\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Right Click on \u201cWindows Search\u201d from the list and choose  \u201cProperties\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The \u201cWindows Search Properties Window\u201d will open up. From \u201cStartup  type\u201d click on the drop down menu and choose \u201cDisabled\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Click \u201cApply\u201d then \u201cOK\u201d and that\u2019s it. The Windows 7 Search Indexing  Feature is now disabled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p>Most<br \/> of the Windows 7 users do less searches in there system. The  Search <br \/>Indexing service in Windows 7 will index keeps track of the files  so <br \/>that they can be found quickly when asked at some other time. This  <br \/>feature is useful only if you perform frequent searches on your system.<\/p>\n<p> For occasional file searchers the Search Indexing service in Windows 7 <br \/> is a total resource hog. It unknowingly eats up your system resources. <br \/> What you need from windows 7 is maximum performance from it then i <br \/>would  certainly recommend you to disable this resource hogging Windows 7<br \/>  Search Indexing Feature.<\/p>\n<p>To Disable the Search Indexing Feature in Windows 7<\/p>\n<p>If<br \/> you want to completely disable the search indexing feature in  Windows 7<br \/> you can set the Search Indexing Service to Manual (See the  above <br \/>method about disabling unwanted services).<\/p>\n<li>\n<h3>Disable the Aero Theme on Windows 7<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Right Click on your Desktop and select \u201d <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Personalize<\/span> \u201d click the <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Window Color<\/span> Tab.<\/li>\n<li>Uncheck the Box saying \u201d Enable Transparency \u201d and then click on \u201d Open classic appearance properties for more color options\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Then a window will open up. <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Apply a Standard or Basic theme<\/span> from it. The Standard Windows 7 theme is more preferred.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p>The<br \/> aero user interface certainly adds some \u201d Eyecandy \u201d to Windows 7 but <br \/>certainly is a resource hog especially when, what you expect from <br \/>windows 7 is more performance juice. Aero user interface squeezes your <br \/>graphics or video card to its maximum. So why dont we just avoid the <br \/>Windows 7 aero? if we care more about speed and performance in Windows <br \/>7. So <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Disabling the Aero in Windows 7 <\/span>certainly adds an extra speed boost to it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.computingunleashed.com\/cu\/uploads\/disabling-aero.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.computingunleashed.com\/cu\/uploads\/disabling-aero.jpg\" style=\"float:right;cursor:pointer;width:210px;height:256px;display:block;margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" title=\"Speed Up Windows 7 by disabling the aero user interface\" alt=\"disabling aero Speed Up Windows 7   Ultimate Guide To Make Windows 7 Blazing Fast!!!\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disabling<br \/> the aero theme alone in Windows 7 will really speed things up. You can <br \/>know this by looking into the memory consumption when aero is turned on <br \/>and off.<\/p>\n<li>\n<h3>Disabling the Unwanted Visual Effects in Windows 7 to Speed Up more<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>For this right click on \u201d <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Computer<\/span>\u201d and select \u201cProperties\u201d from the right click menu.<\/li>\n<li>Click on \u201d Advanced System Settings \u201d from the left pane to open up the \u201d System Properties \u201d window.<\/li>\n<li>Select the \u201cAdvanced\u201d tab from it. Then Under \u201d Performance \u201d click \u201d Settings \u201c. Choose \u201d Custom: \u201d Options From it.<\/li>\n<li>Now<br \/> un tick all the options and select only the last four options (actually<br \/> three only needed; you can un tick the second option from the last <br \/>four). See the screen shot if you have any doubt.<\/li>\n<li>Now just logoff your system and turn logon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p>Even<br \/> though we have tuned off the aero effects in Windows 7 still there are <br \/>many unwanted visual effects that can be safely disabled to speed up <br \/>windows 7 even more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.computingunleashed.com\/cu\/uploads\/disabling-services-in-windows-7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.computingunleashed.com\/cu\/uploads\/disabling-services-in-windows-7.jpg\" style=\"float:right;cursor:pointer;width:200px;height:287px;display:block;margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" title=\"Speeding Up Windows 7 by removing unwanted visual effects\" alt=\"disabling services in windows 7 Speed Up Windows 7   Ultimate Guide To Make Windows 7 Blazing Fast!!!\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will now notice the speed difference now.<\/p>\n<li>\n<h3>Disabling the Unwanted Services to Speed up Windows 7<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<p>There<br \/> are many services in windows 7 that we dont require for our daily use. <br \/>There are some exceptional cases though. Services such as \u201cprint <br \/>spooler\u201d is only needed when we use a printer. If we use a printer only <br \/>occasionally we can safely turn off that service in Windows 7 and turn <br \/>it on only when we need to take a print.<\/p>\n<p>I have previously prepared a <a title=\"Services in Windows 7 That can be Safely Set To Manual Or Disabled\" hre\nf=\"http:\/\/www.computingunleashed.com\/2009\/02\/list-of-services-in-windows-7-that-can.html\" target=\"_blank\">List of services in Windows 7 that can be safely set to manual \/ disabled<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Disabling the unneeded services in Windows 7 can really speed up the system boot time.<\/p>\n<li>\n<h3>Disable the User account control (UAC) Feature in Windows 7<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> From the  Control Panel open the \u201d User Accounts and Family Safety \u201d &gt; User Account.<\/li>\n<li>Click the User Account Control settings link.<\/li>\n<li>Now just Drag the Slider towards \u201cNever Notify\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Click \u201cOK\u201d and Reboot your system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p>The<br \/> User account control (UAC) feature in Windows 7 is very annoying though<br \/> it says it can protect your computer from harmful virus activity etc. <br \/>But if you are a daily user of your computer this windows 7 feature will<br \/> be a total nuisance to you.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">To Disable and Turnoff UAC in Windows 7<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.computingunleashed.com\/cu\/uploads\/disabling-uac-in-windows-7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.computingunleashed.com\/cu\/uploads\/disabling-uac-in-windows-7.jpg\" style=\"float:right;cursor:pointer;width:320px;height:240px;display:block;margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" title=\"Speed UP Windows 7 by disabling User Account Control(UAC)\" alt=\"disabling uac in windows 7 Speed Up Windows 7   Ultimate Guide To Make Windows 7 Blazing Fast!!!\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disabling UAC is for advanced users only its not recommend doing it if not.<\/p>\n<li>\n<h3>SetUp the Windows 7 Ready Boost Service for an Extra Speed Boost<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>To<br \/> configure the Ready Boost Feature in Windows 7 you need to have a High <br \/>Speed Flash\/USB or Pendrive with you which is ready boost compatible.<\/li>\n<li>After<br \/> plugging you pendrive, open \u201cComputer\u201d &gt; Right-click the on USB <br \/>Drive\/Pendrive &gt; select \u201cReady Boost\u201d tab &gt; tick the \u201cUse this <br \/>device\u201d checkbox.<\/li>\n<li>You can configure how much space on your USB drive\/ Pendrive to be used as Ram.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p>The<br \/> ready boost feature in Windows 7 will help you to use your flash drive <br \/>or pendrive or USB drive as Ram there by improving the performance and <br \/>speed of windows 7 greatly. You can certainly experience it when <br \/>launching bulky applications such as Adobe Photoshop etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.computingunleashed.com\/cu\/uploads\/Speed-Up-Windows-7-with-Ready-boost.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.computingunleashed.com\/cu\/uploads\/Speed-Up-Windows-7-with-Ready-boost.jpg\" style=\"float:right;cursor:pointer;width:243px;height:316px;display:block;margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" title=\"Speed Up Windows 7 with Ready Boost\" alt=\"Speed Up Windows 7 with Ready boost Speed Up Windows 7   Ultimate Guide To Make Windows 7 Blazing Fast!!!\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>\n<h3>Turn off Unused Windows 7 Features<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Open up \u201d Programs and Features \u201d from Control Panel.<\/li>\n<li>Click the \u201d Turn Windows features on or off \u201d from the left pane.<\/li>\n<li> Now uncheck all the Feature that you don\u2019t use in Windows 7 and restart the system for the changes to take effect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p>There<br \/> are many feature in windows 7 that we often don]t use. Disabling these <br \/>unused features in Windows 7 will really help in speeding things up.<\/p>\n<li>\n<h3>Disable the Windows 7 Sidebar (Actually the Gadgets)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Right click on the sidebar and select \u201d Properties \u201c.<\/li>\n<li>On the properties windows untick the check box showing \u201d Start sidebar when Windows Starts \u201c<\/li>\n<li>From now on windows sidebar won\u2019t start when windows 7 start up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p>Disabling<br \/> the window 7 sidebar is definitely help you to to gain a few seconds <br \/>during start up time. There are many useful utilities such as the <br \/>RocketDock etc. which are good application launchers.<\/p>\n<p>To Disable the Sidebar in Windows 7,<\/p>\n<li>\n<h3>Disable the Aero Peek and Aero Snap features in Windows 7<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Open the Windows 7 \u201d Control Panel \u201d and double-click on \u201d Ease of Access Center \u201d icon.<\/li>\n<li> Now click on the \u201d Make it easier to focus on tasks \u201d seen at the bottom in there<\/li>\n<li>Now untick the check box saying \u201d Prevent windows from being automatically arranged when moved to the edge of the screen \u201d .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Right click on the Windows 7 taskbar and select \u201d Properties \u201c.<\/li>\n<li> Now untick the \u201d Use Aero Peek to preview the desktop \u201d option from there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p>Aero Snap will help you to maximize, minimize and resize the windows just by dragging and dropping it into the screen corners.<\/p>\n<p>To disable Aero Snap Feature in Windows 7,<\/p>\n<p>That will now disable the Aero Snap in Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>Now To <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Disable the Aero Peek feature in Windows 7<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/> Aero Peek feature in Windows 7 helps you to peek through all open <br \/>windows by hiding all other windows and showing only the outlines of all<br \/> windows. Aero Peek is similar to the \u201d Show Desktop \u201d Feature in XP and<br \/> Vista.<\/p>\n<p>If you have followed step 3 then Aero Peek will be automatically disabled. If not,<\/p>\n<p>The aero peek feature will now be disabled in windows 7.<\/p>\n<li>\n<h3>Change the Power Plan To Maximum Performance<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Double click the \u201d Power Options \u201d in the Control panel.<\/li>\n<li>Click the down arrow showing \u201d Show Additional Plans \u201d to see the \u201d High Performance \u201d power plan<\/li>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<li> Now just activate the \u201d High Performance \u201d plan and that\u2019s it.<\/li>\n<li>You may go for the advanced settings for further tweaking if you want.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p>The<br \/> Power settings in Windows 7 is not automatically set for maximum <br \/>performance. By default the power plan in Windows 7 is set for a <br \/>balanced performance with energy consumption on hardware. So you may not<br \/> get the optimal performance from windows 7 if this is the case. So we <br \/>need to change the power plan to High Performance Mode.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.computingunleashed.com\/cu\/uploads\/power-plan-in-windows-7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.computingunleashed.com\/cu\/uploads\/power-plan-in-windows-7.jpg\" style=\"float:right;cursor:pointer;width:320px;height:150px;display:block;margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" title=\"Setting the Power Plan in Windows 7 To High Performance Mode\" alt=\"power plan in windows 7 Speed Up Windows 7   Ultimate Guide To Make Windows 7 Blazing Fast!!!\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>\n<h3>Disable the Thumbnail Preview Feature to speed up File browsing in Windows 7<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Double Click on \u201d Computer \u201d &gt;click on the \u201cOrganize\u201d drop-down menu and select the \u201cFolder and Search options\u201d<\/li>\n<li> Under \u2018Files and Folders\u2019 section, go to the \u201cView\u201d tab and tick the <br \/>check box showing \u201cAlways show icons, never thumbnails\u201d checkbox.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p>The<br \/> thumbnail preview feature in Windows 7 will show the small thumbnails <br \/>of the contents of a folder instead of showing it\u2019s icon. But this <br \/>feature really do take up some system resources. So by disabling the <br \/>Thumbnail Preview feature in Windows 7 the file browsing in Windows 7 <br \/>explorer can be speed up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.computingunleashed.com\/cu\/uploads\/disable-thumbnail-previews.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.computingunleashed.com\/cu\/uploads\/disable-thumbnail-previews.jpg\" style=\"float:right;cursor:pointer;width:276px;height:236px;display:block;margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" title=\"speed up widows 7 by disabling thumbnail previews\" alt=\"disable thumbnail previews Speed Up Windows 7   Ultimate Guide To Make Windows 7 Blazing Fast!!!\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>For disabling thumbnails in Windows 7,<\/p>\n<li>\n<h3>Most Essential Softwares To Speed Up Windows 7<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wisecleaner.com\/download.html\">Wise Registry Cleaner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ccleaner.com\/download\">CCleaner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.speedguide.net\/downloads.php\">TCP Optimizer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.codesector.com\/download.php\">TeraCopy<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <a target=\"_blank\"\n href=\"http:\/\/www.r2.com.au\/software.php?page=2&amp;show=startdelay\">Startup Delayer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p>In<br \/> order to maintain your Windows 7 Performance and keep it up in Top <br \/>Shape there are some very essential software\u2019s that can help us to Speed<br \/> Windows 7. I will list some of them here. You can download these <br \/>utilities. But i remind you that you need to run these utilities at <br \/>least once in a week. Only if you do it regularly your Windows 7 will be<br \/> in top shape every day.<\/p>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speed Up Windows 7 \u2013 Ultimate Guide To Make Windows 7 Blazing Fast!!! Windows 7 is Engineered for speed. Special attention has been given by the Windows 7 team for making Windows 7 faster than the previous operating systems. Windows 7 is much faster than Windows Vista, but even then most of us don\u2019t get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}