Speed up your windows operating system.

It happens with most of us that our systems becomes slow and show lagging while opening applications and running various processes. So here is discussed some important things in detail which help your PC give optimal performance.

1. Remove unnecessary startup objects.

2. Defragment hard disk.

3. Scan hard disk for errors.

4. Disk clean-up & Remove temporary files.

5. Scan for viruses regularly.

6. Check spyware & adware.

7. Uninstall unnecessary programs.

8. Check for registry errors.

9. Remove unnecessary running processes and services from running.

10. Adjust Virtual Effects.

11. Enable Hibernate.

12. Increase Virtual Memory.

Remove unnecessary start up objects:

• Open run dialog box with windows key + r and type msconfig and press enter. Goto Startup tab. Here you will find a list of startup objects. Keep only necessary objects and disable rest of them.
• Else press ctrl + shift + esc. It will open task manager and here also you can goto startup tab.

Defragment hard disk:

• Our hard disk data wont saved sequentially. So we need to defragment it to decrease the seek time of your hard disk.
• Goto: My Computer-> Select drive-> Right click-> Properties-> Tools
• Chose Defragment or Optimise (You will see any one of the two)
• Select drive and chose Defragment or Optmise

Scanning hard disk for errors:

• This action recovers bad sectors and fixes file system errors.
• Goto: My Computer-> Select drive-> Right click-> properties-> Tools-> Check.

Disk Cleanup & Remove temp files:

• We perform this step for removing temporary files.
• Goto RUN type %temp% and press enter then delete all files,
• Goto RUN and type Prefetch and press enter then delete all files.
• Instead of the above steps you can also use Disk Cleanup and for that Goto: My Computer-> Select drive-> Right click-> Properties-> General-> Disk Cleanup

Scan for viruses regularly:

• Update your antivirus and scan for Viruses and Trojans regularly.

Check spyware &Adware:

• Download antispyware and adware tools and check your system. Using these softwares could slow down your internet speed.

Uninstall unnecessary programs:

• It’s better to uninstall softwares which you don’t use any more.

Check for registry errors:

• Download Registry error checking tools like tune-up utilities and scan for registry errors.

Remove unnecessary running processes and services from running:

• Use Process Explorer or task manager and remove processes which are not using.

Adjust Visual Effects:

• Right click on My Computer-> Properties-> Advances System Settings-> Advanced-> Setting tab under Performance-> Select Best Performance or Best Appearance as per your requirement.

Enable Hibernate:

• Use Hibernate instead of Shutdown. It is 10 times faster in switching on your system with previous state before you used your PC.
• Goto: Control panel-> Power options-> chose what do power buttons do-> Select Hibernate.

Increase Virtual Memory:

• Virtual memory works like extended RAM. So it helps to increase speed of your applications.
• For this: Right click on My computer-> properties-> Advanced System Settings-> Advanced-> Setting tab under performance-> Advanced-> Change.
• It’s better to set 2-3 times of your RAM size.