A Guide to Speeding up Windows 7

Operating faster than every other Windows system, Windows 7 is in a class by itself. Some steps may need to be made, however, especially if it is not running at optimal speeds. In this article, we'll be exploring ways to make Windows 7 run as fast and as smoothly as possible on your computer.

There are certain sounds on your computer, such as the sound it makes when starting up that can affect your booting up speed quite a bit. By setting your sounds settings to &quot;no sound,&quot; you'll be removing unnecessary sounds and improve performance. You'll only be shutting down nonessential sounds (start-up, closing programs) that Windows itself makes, it won't leave you with a silent computer that can't play videos. Another feature you may want to shut off is search indexing, though if you do a lot of searching, doing this might slow it down. There's an option under Indexing Options where you can do this. Among the many features that you might consider shutting off for faster performance is Active Desktop. If there are websites you visit regularly, Active Desktop lets you see them on your desktop right away. It's a question of whether you care about this feature, or if you'd prefer to get better performance from your computer. Unless it's important to you to see certain web pages on your desktop, you probably don't need this feature. Between bookmarking websites you visit frequently, and setting up one as your home page, you can still reach them fast enough. Windows 7 comes with certain default colors; by resetting your desktop background to a solid color, you'll be freeing up memory. Changing the desktop background color is just a matter of selecting the &quot;personalize&quot; option that comes up when you click on &quot;desktop.&quot; Measures like choosing a solid color will probably speed up your computer a bit, and when combined with other changes, you'll notice a real difference.

Windows Aero is a feature that helps your desktop look really good but it also really slows down your computer. It includes all sorts of fantastic and attractive designs, animations, colors, etc and if you love to see these effects in action on your computer then you need to keep them. Of course, turning off this particular feature will really speed up Windows 7's performance because it uses quite a lot of memory. Click on Desktop and then on Personalize to get this done.

You then have to find a box called Enable Transparency, and click on &quot;open classic appearance properties.&quot; This will switch your desktop to a basic theme with not nearly as many effects. You are going to find that this one single action can speed up Windows 7 quite a lot.

Windows 7 is an advanced operating system that's one of the fastest ever made. However, a lot of the users don't get the best possible performance from the system because they don't think about speed when they're optimizing things. If you focus your attention on cutting what you don't use and keeping only what is the most essential and clean your registry on a regular basis, Windows 7 should be super speedy for you.

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