Comments on: 10 Intermediate Ways To Speed Up Windows

By: Computer Support

Computer Support — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:53:39 +0000

Sometimes we tend to Shutdown the computer by pushing the power button directly. We have to avoid this which might affect the services closing down properly which might results in slow boot

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:52:02 +0000

My shut down and start up is crazy slow so i'd like to change this if even by a fraction but with number 10 i cant find the waittokillprocesses thing that was mentioned above

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:54:25 +0000

Thanks for the tips! Much inproved system speed. :)

By: Free Macbook

Free Macbook — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:44:38 +0000

My windows has been lagging for some time im hoping all these tips will kick it back into gear, thanks!

By: TheOneEd

TheOneEd — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:08:37 +0000

Good but you should NEVER turn off system restore, especially if you frequent the internet or screw around with windows.

By: ali

ali — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:51:55 +0000

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By: Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:15:20 +0000

I think it’s complex for common users, software can help with these tweaks. I recommend to use Boost Windows 2009, the download link is: http://www.windowsfaster.com/dlds/bwsetup.exe

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By: joliemar

joliemar — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:21:26 +0000

I need help! after following all the directions on how to speed up windows xp. My DEEP FREEZE software suddenly cannot start with its BOOT FROZEN menu.. I just cannot seem to know what have I altered. Pls. Help I need my DEEP FREEZE To be started in frozen mode again.

By: Dealgiant

Dealgiant — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:11:07 +0000

It does work but i have to remove the peripherals attached to my pc as some of them use the services on your list, but it works for me as i disable the ones i don’t need :)

By: 3G iPhone

3G iPhone — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:48:41 +0000

Thanks for the tips.

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:53:19 +0000

Turning off System Restore is not a wise move, I suggest reducing the size of disk space it holds in reserve from 12% to 6%.

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By: Billy bob

Billy bob — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:44:22 +0000

Number nine (9) does not work it will say that itbis invalid

By: Brian Skidmore

Brian Skidmore — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:18:11 +0000

I have followed all Steps bar the Restore section.
Immediate improvement occurred with the “pageDefrag”
section.

No problems were experienced with your instructions.

I will give it another day and if all remains well I’ll
finish off with the Restore section

many thanks for a great article

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By: tdh

tdh — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:42:08 +0000

Only disable a service when you know exactly what its function is. Instead of listing all the services to disable, why don’t you tell some words about each service?
For example, if you disable Computer Browser, you cannot access to any shared folder in other computers in LAN, right? So what? IMHO, listing the unnecessary services without function description is fool!

By: Darrenb

Darrenb — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:03:58 +0000

HELP…

I did these tweaks now when i click on my computer or my documents or any folder nothing happens!!!!

By: Zhuoshi

Zhuoshi — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:28:09 +0000

Thanks for these tips. My 50-year-old computer (maybe not exactly 50, but really old and slow) is much faster now.

By: Sneezy Melon

Sneezy Melon — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:46:03 +0000

nice and informative article.
thanks for sharing!

By: Everton

Everton — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:28:44 +0000

@Rita

In safe mode, undo the changes one at a time starting with the most recent one you implemented

By: Rita

Rita — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:40:46 +0000

I tried almost all these fixes, and now my system won’t boot past the windows page! I can get into safe mode only to access my stuff. When I do a restore, I get the same old windows window for hours? NOW WHAT DO I DO? in a panic in Ohio……

By: David Hopkins

David Hopkins — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:37:46 +0000

I also like to switch to Windows classic mode. Not only do windows themes have the potential to interfere with applications they also slow you down.

By: Jalaj

Jalaj — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:16:33 +0000

Thanks for “Disable Unnecessary Services” list, as I needed it badly. I don’t touch services after I once halted my system by stopping some critical service.

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online prescription drugs — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:22:48 +0000

It may be more prudent to simply disable or set to manual the Indexing service from the Service Control Manager, rather than to un-install the service, which would imply that you would never need it in future.

By: Davo

Davo — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:38:16 +0000

I Strongly Agree With #10 If You Do Not Use Programs Where You Need To Save Your Work Immediately, Only If You Use High Profile Games (Battlefield 2142, Bioshock etc.) Where It WIll Reduce The Amount Of Slow Speed You Get, And Improve The Speed-up Time Of The Game Also.

I Strongly Disagree With #10 If You Are A Small Company/Business/Self-employee Where You Will Need To Use Microsoft Office Very Often, And It Will Be Very Nearly Impossible To Save Your Work, As The First Guy Who Posted Here Pointed Out, Which Also Caught My Eye Once In Windows. Take Into Consideration Of Which Systems That These Work On. They ARE NOT CLEAR!! … Thanks alot .. Davo

By: DB

DB — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:58:57 +0000

A very quick way to defragment the pagefile is simply to set it to 0 Mb from the performance tab, reboot, and then set it to a new value…you might have to delete any residual pagefile.sys file in the folder first…

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By: edebiyat

edebiyat — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:07:01 +0000

I especially like the ConservativeSwapfileUsage thing.

By: Shameless Reviews

Shameless Reviews — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:12:37 +0000

Windows XP Slowing You Down?…

Mine used to, until I disabled a lot of services! Then things picked up in seconds.
Consider the following resource hogs:
Alerter
Clipbook
Computer Browser
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Fast User Switching
Help and Support – (If you use Windows Help…

By: Everton

Everton — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:41:54 +0000

no idea – I would start with the registry tweaks first to see if you did them correctly

By: jonnt feked

jonnt feked — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:33:09 +0000

I have followed all your tips and now i cant use windows at all?!? I have just managed to start up firefox, but that is it. What do you think could have caused this out of all your tips? So then i can try to reverse what ever it was i did? Thanx

By: rusty

rusty — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:07:14 +0000

thank u noticed as soon as rebooted

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By: Janet

Janet — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:43:02 +0000

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By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:10:49 +0000

Dude, I strongly suggest readers to keep System Restore unless they’re robots because this service can really pull your ass out of deep situations. Keep it in a month’s length so that it doesn’t take up as much but it’s still there.

By: Everton

Everton — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:43:50 +0000

Fair point Roger. Out of interest have you ever completed a successful system restore? In the past when I’ve tried it’s never been 100% successful.

By: Roge rTilbury

Roge rTilbury — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:29:10 +0000

People are not short of disk space these days. Turning off system restore is a recipe for disaster as it removes your only simple recovery option and often your only practical recovery option. You should not be recommending this.

Mmany tips these days are based on recovering/saving disk space. Given the size of hard drives nowadays these tips are redundant.

ps I speak from 38 years experience of supporting everything from the largest mainframes to Windows

By: Horace

Horace — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:10:35 +0000

thanks will do that to see if my computer improves

By: Osvaldo

Osvaldo — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:28:53 +0000

Suggesting someone to disable as many services as you do, and deactivating system restore right away sounds like a true trap to me, mister. If anyone disable the services you propose, services.msc itself will be deactivated at next restart, and then the poor victim will not be able to get back to safety using system restore, so reinstalling the system will be the only way out.
THE OTHER TIPS ARE JUST FINE, thanks a lot for those, BUT STOP proposing people to deativate system restore, for thats not a cool thing to be done.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:30:29 +0000

Yeah, I just tried #7 on Windows XP and it did virtually nothing…

By: Ralph Averbuch

Ralph Averbuch — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:02:45 +0000

I followed these instructions and they do generally seem to speed things up (tried on three different laptops). However, for some reason I can’t figure out, I now can’t see the other laptops on the internal wifi network or even access the one connected to the printer as a printer server (which I used to do before), but the other laptops can see my shared drives and access my files???

I’m guessing that something I disabled in Services is to blame, but I’ve no idea what!! Any help would be much appreciated. I can be contacted at ralphNOTTHISBITaverbuch@gmail.com

By: Boughto

Boughto — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:34:19 +0000

Just a note that tweak #7 is NOT relevant to WinNT platforms, including WinXP. System.ini is only used for compatibility for older 16-bit programs and will not normally be even read on an NT based machine.

See http://www.tweakxp.com/incorrect_tweaks.aspx (or http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:BIVXY96HrtoJ:www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t12076.html+ConservativeSwapfileUsage&hl=en&gl=au&ct=clnk&cd=5)

Good site for WinXP memory management: http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

By: nikki

nikki — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 19:19:01 +0000

I followed the directions to modify my registry for “faster” shutdown times, and all I have to say is DON’T. I didn’t notice much improvement in shutdown times, but I did notice that my programs all started spazzing because they never had time to shut down properly.

By: eraserhead03

eraserhead03 — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:41:04 +0000

These are great. I have been hacking around all night trying to improve performance on my computer. Gave me some excellent ideas. Thanks.

By: Everton Blair

Everton Blair — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:33:33 +0000

Thanks hunkfritz! If you're feeling up to it try out the other intermediate guide and the additional guide

By: hunkfritz

hunkfritz — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:14:08 +0000

its rely help me a lot in my office computer although my computer is high avarage specs but you can see the difference if apply this configuration in your windows. i’ll give you 10 stars to rate this its so helpfull.