So, you decided to try to improve the performance of your computer, and asked the question: "How to speed up Windows 7." There are many methods, but it is worthwhile to understand that by increasing productivity, you will sacrifice something. For example, convenience, beauty, various effects and other things.
Windows 7. Acceleration: Preface.
If you speed up the work by turning off the various effects, then you should think about whether you need Windows 7 at all, since removing all this will lose the main essence of this operating system. There will be no convenience, beauty and other things.
For the full operation of this OS, you need a more or less powerful computer. If you have it very weak, then it is advisable to install Windows XP.
But you can make some changes in 7 so that it doesn’t really appear on the appearance, but at the same time so that they give an increase in performance.
How to speed up Windows 7: step 1.
Basic changes need to be done in the Start menu. Using the right mouse button, we open the “popup-menu”. You will need to open the “Start Menu” tab. Then, being in it, click on the "Configure" button.
You will see a whole list of settings that affect the appearance of the start menu and everything connected with it.
It is worth noting that the more elements and effects there will be in this “start menu”, the longer this entire area will be loaded and traced.
It is advisable to do the following. Disable the menu of videos, music, games, and other unnecessary things that you do not constantly use.
Further, which will greatly facilitate the drawing, is to turn off the color highlighting of recently installed applications. This will greatly speed up the work.
How to speed up Windows 7: step 2.
You can also reduce the time the start menu appears. Since the developers tried to do everything beautifully and with effects, they made the appearance of the menu smooth. More precisely, this way: it appears immediately, but in the form of a transparent window, and then gradually gains all the shades and becomes “normal”.
This process can be accelerated if, as a result of this, your entire system begins to slow down. To do this, open the registry. You can open it in 2 ways:
• press the key combination “Windows” + “R” and enter the word Regedit.
• click “Start menu”, “Accessories” and then “run” and enter the word Regedit.
The first way is faster.
You are now in the registry. We’ll use the search function and enter “MenuShowDelay”. You will immediately find yourself in the right place. Using the right click, we call up the menu and click on the edit item there. Change the value of 400, for example, to 50-100.
Now you will have the launch shown almost immediately. Although, you may not particularly see the difference. You might think what these numbers mean. This is the time during which the menu appears. Measured in milliseconds. A value of 1000 corresponds to 1 second.
How to speed up Windows 7: step 3.
Further, more radical methods can be made. For example, setting the number of cores involved in loading a computer, reducing the time it takes to prepare sketches, and so on.
Set the number of processor cores involved in loading the operating system. Earlier, where we wrote Regedit, you need to write MSConfig. Select the download tab there. Next, click on the button for additional options.
There you can configure the number of cores. By default, this function is inactive. Check the box. Thus, you activate it. Select the maximum number of cores.
Now loading the system will be much faster.
You can also speed up the completion of the computer. If something hung up on you, and you want to force shut it down, and the system hangs, then this is annoying. The OS by default waits 12 seconds, and then only disables the program. This is a long time.
To reduce this time, again go to the registry and do a search for the word WaitToKillServiceTimeout.
Before searching, on the left, in the tree of keys and folders, click on my computer, otherwise you will not find anything, because you will be in the place where we reduced the time the launch appeared. Find and make time less there. For example, 2-4 seconds.
I hope the article was able to answer the question: "How to speed up the computer." Windows 7 will no longer torment you with its freezes.