Improving the Performance and Speed of Windows 7
If you have an up to date computer that will run Windows 7, you should have pretty good speed and performance. However, very often there are issues that slow down your computer without you being aware of it. By looking over your desktop and settings, you can often find easy ways to speed up your computer. If you pay attention to the things we will teach you about in this article you will enjoy a computer and Windows 7 system that have much enhanced performances.
An ongoing debate that continues is what changes to make to the Windows 7 operating system to make it more functional and faster in processing. The processing speed of Windows, specifically in regard to boot time, can be altered by the number of cores according to some. If you want to, by using the advanced options on your system, you can actually change the number of processors that are functional. The number of cores that you are using is actually not modifiable – the number being used by Windows takes advantage of the maximum by default preloaded. Overall, it is worth a test, even if most people believe that it will not improve the speed of your system. You may want to disable Active Desktop, unless it’s something that you actually use. This feature allows you to view web pages from your desktop, without having to bring them up via your browser. It’s up to you to decide whether features such as this are worth having, or if making Windows 7 faster is more of a priority. Most people don’t urgently need to see a web page from their desktop, though there are exceptions. After all, when you go online you can bookmark your favorite sites easily enough, and choose your favorite site for your home page. Colors use up RAM on your computer, so if you want Windows 7 to run faster, set your desktop background to a single color rather than the more complex default color scheme. You have several options when you click on Desktop, and when you choose personalize you can choose your colors. Remember that speeding up Windows 7 is often a matter of making a series of little changes, not just one.
Windows 7 provides you with a large number of fonts, many of which you’ll probably never use. Although it is nice to have fonts to choose from, of the 130 available, only 10 or 20 will be used. The fonts can actually cause software programs to stall like Microsoft Word for Windows. Computers with too many fonts simply will load slower, even reboot slower because they are on the system. Your computer will slow down dramatically if you add more fonts than the ones preinstalled. Overall, by removing these fonts, your boot time and system processing time will be enhanced. Fonts used by your computer regularly should not be removed. Only remove the ones that are taking up extra space. It is important that you do not remove fonts that you use on a regular basis.
Windows 7 is very advanced and very fast–it’s the fastest and most advanced yet. Unfortunately most users aren’t able to get the best performance from it because they fail to optimize their settings for better speed. 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.
Georgette Adanas has been writing articles on Harga Notebook since 1999.
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