Disable Automatic Disk Defragmentation

The Automatic Disk Defragmentation feature in Windows is designed to maintain the health of the operating system. However, it also makes Windows run a little slower. You can put an end to this by disabling the feature and manually running at your leisure. To do so, click “Start” and select “Computer.” Next, right click on your primary hard drive and select “Properties.” Lastly, select the “Tools” tab, click “Defragment Now” and uncheck the “Run on a schedule” option.

Utilize ReadyBoost

ReadyBoost is a built-in Windows 7 feature that allows you to use a USB flash drive to enhance system performance. How is this possible? The drive itself acts as additional computer memory!

In order to make use of this feature, you will need a USB drive with at least 2 GB of space. From there, you simply connect the drive to your computer, click “Start” and select “Computer.” Next, click on the USB drive and select “ReadyBoost.” Lastly, select “Use this device” and choose as much capacity as possible below on the “Space to reserve for system speed” slide.

Disable Windows Transparency

The transparency of windows is a great perk from a presentation aspect, but this may not be the case for those with older hardware as it can drastically impact performance. The good thing is that transparency can be disabled with ease. Simply right-click on your desktop, select “Personalize,” choose the active theme and then navigate to “Windows Color.” Finally, uncheck the “Enable Transparency” option.

Disable Unwanted Features

There may be numerous Windows 7 features that you really don’t need. These same features could also slow down your computer. To disable them, click on “Start,” choose “Control Panel” and then select “Programs and features.” Next, select the “Turn Windows features on or off” option, navigate through the list and uncheck all the features you want to disable. Once you are done, simply click “OK” to remove those features.

Disable Startup Services

Startup services are notorious for slowing down performance in XP and Vista. The same holds true for Windows 7. You can disable unwanted services by hitting “Start,” typing “msconfig” in the search bar and clicking “Enter.” Click the “Services Tab” on the next window and deselect the services you do not want to automatically run at startup. While this all depends on preference, services that impact performance the most include “Offline Files,” “Tablet PC Input Services,” Terminal Services,” “Fax” and “Windows Search.”

Disable Minimizing/Maximizing Animations

Many users have already fallen in love with the minimizing and maximizing animation effects of windows. However, some may find it irritating after a while as it can eventually lead to slowdowns. If you want to disable this function, hit “Start,” enter “System Properties Performance” in the search bar and click “OK.” On the next screen, deselect the “Animate window when minimizing and maximizing” option and click “OK.”

Update Your Windows 7 Drivers

Lastly, ensure that you have the latest device drivers made specifically for Windows 7. Since your PC can have hundreds of drivers installed in it at any given time, this task can be tedious. Luckily there are 3^rd party utilities out thee such as DriverFinder™, which can greatly speed up this process.

1. Registry maintenance: A registry that is bloated up is the reason behind a slow computer. This is due to the cluttering up by the entries that are of no use. Thus a registry becomes unstable and prone to threats. This is one of the main cause that causes the computer to not to respond to most of your inputs. What’s the remedy? To maintain and re-organize the registry, clean and compact it periodically. How this can be done? With a help of registry cleaner that will defragment and re-organize your windows registry and removes unwanted files and data.
2. Hard Disk maintenance: You might be aware that all your files and data are stored in the hard disk drive.  If a hard disk has too many dead files, it also slows down your computer. As you begin to install large amount of software and programs the hard disk gets acquired a lot number of files, even once you have stopped adding programs recently. This is due to the presence of large number of obsolete files. These dead files are prone to the attack of malwares such as virus and spyware. They destroy your computer! So how to solve this problem? A) Do a regular scan of your hard disk B) Uninstall all the unwanted program with an uninstaller tool that eliminates them completely C) Regular use of disk cleanup tool to clean up the temporary folder and finally D) Performing disk defragmentation to re-organize the hard disk sectors and remove dead sectors. These are the ways to clean up and maintain your hard disk.
3. RAM: RAM is the system memory!  This is the last step – to check your RAM. When you don’t have enough system memory, it will slow down your computer. That is one of the reasons. The other is, when there is a RAM chip failure. To find out a RAM chip failure, you must do PC memory test. This test will confirm the errors in the system memory. When the problem still exists, then it’s better to replace your RAM, probably to 1 GB or more. Even if your RAM is good, I recommend that you increase its capacity for a faster pc performance!

These 3 simple yet powerful ways helps you to resolve a slow computer and boost up your system’s performance, thus preventing system failures, in the long run. A fast computer is a must these days to perform heavy works. So thus there is a need for speed along with clean maintenance and healthy condition of the system, to get the most out of it!