Following are more than 80 ways which can boost your PC performance right now and make PC work faster as new.
- Use the Windows Performance Toolkit and the trace logs to speed up Windows boot time.
- Perform a virus scan on your computer regularly. If you don’t want to install virus protection, use some of the free online virus scanners.
- Use web accelerators, which are programs that try to prefetch and cache the sites you are going to visit.
- Make sure that there are no bad sectors or other errors on your hard drive.
- If you have a SATA drive and you’re running Windows Vista, you can speed up your PC by enabling the advanced write caching features.
- Reduce the number of fonts that your computer has to load up on startup to increase performance.
- Remove unnecessary old programs from the Add/Remove dialog of the Control Panel often.
- Update all of your drivers in Windows, including chipset and motherboard drivers to their latest versions.
- Partition your hard drives correctly to maximize performance.
- Speed up Mozilla Firefox by tweaking the configuration settings and by installing an add-on called FasterFox.
- Speed up the Start Menu in Windows by customizing or adding the ‘MenuShowDelay’ key in the registry.
- Make sure that you have selected “Adjust for best performance” on the Performance tab in Computer System Properties.
- Make sure to download all the latest Windows Updates, Service Packs, and hot fixes as they normally help your computer work better.
- Clean registry by removing broken shortcuts, missing shared DLLs, invalid paths, invalid installer references and more.
- If you are running a 32-bit version of Windows and have 4GB of RAM or more, you can force Windows to see and use all of the RAM by enabling PAE.
- If you are not using some of the hardware on your computer, i.e. floppy drive, CD-ROM drive, USB ports, IR ports, etc, then go into your BIOS and disable them so that they do not use any power and do not have to be loaded during boot up.
- Enable DMA mode in Windows XP for IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers in Device Manager.
- Replace a slow hard drive with a faster 7200 RPM drive, SATA drive, or SAS drive.
- Turn visual effects off by going to Performance Options.
- Speed up the Send To menu in Explorer by typing “sendto” in the Run dialog box and deleting unnecessary items.
- Disable unnecessary Windows services, settings, and programs that slow down your computer.
- Make icons appear faster while browsing in My Computer by disabling search for network files and printers.
- Tweak Windows using free programs
- If you already have anti-spyware software installed, turn off Windows Defender protection.
- If you do not use the Recent Documents feature in Windows, then disable it completely.
- Disable UAC (User Account Control) in Windows Vista or Windows 7.
- Clean out the Windows prefetch folder to improve performance.
- If you are technically savvy and don’t mind taking a few risks, you can try to overclock your processor.
- Speed up browsing of pictures and videos in Windows Vista by disabling the Vista thumbnails cache.
- Do not clear your paging file during shutdown unless it is needed for security purposes because clearing the paging file slows down shutdown.
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