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Tips to Enhance Windows 7 Experience


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In this resource we are going to discuss some tips and tricks, you can use them to improve your computer speed having Windows 7 Operating system installed. This tips will definitely increase your windows 7 speed.


Why Windows 7 running slow ?

Make sure you have these basic requirements for windows 7
  1. GHz (32 - or 64-bit)
  2. 1 GB of main memory
  3. 16 GB of available disk space.
  4. Support for DX9 graphics with 128 MB of memory (for the Aero interface)
  5. A DVD-R / W
If you have met the requirements and Windows 7 is still somewhat slow, then the problem might be elsewhere.

Disable Search Index

As a first step, you can disable the search index on your PC. This feature is only needed when doing frequent searches on the system.

To improve your search experience and to speed up the search process, the Search indexing service scans through the all files and folders and stores the information in an index file. But This consumes some resources of the system, and it negatively affects on your operating system speed. If a user has slow computer then its better to turn of this windows feature,
To do so follow these steps:
  1. Go to start menu and type services.msc and hit Enter. A Window will open shortly with the list of all services.
  2. Now you have to locate Windows search service in available list of services,and open properties by right clicking on that service.
  3. now you will see startup type under the general tab,disable that by choosing disable option.and click the apply button.
After rebooting your computer search index service will be disabled.

Disable the Aero theme

The next step should be to disable the Aero theme.The Aero theme in windows 7 adds some extra beauties to the Windows 7 interfaces. It consumes large amount of computer resource, If you want to authenticate this, just to see the memory consumption when aero theme is enabled and disabled.so disabling aero theme is an essential boost speed of your computer.
To do so follow these steps:
  1. Now right click anywhere on your Desktop, and then select Personalize, one window will open.
  2. Now click on the Window Color tab at the bottom of window.
  3. Uncheck the Enable Transparency check box and click on save now button.
  4. Now you will be back on personalize window. Now scroll down and select The Standard Windows 7 theme.
Now you disabled the aero theme.

Disable the Additional services

Next, you must disable the additional services not allowed in the PC. This helps speed boot time. Some services, such as printer features can only be activated when the need arises. This helps free up disk space.
To do so follow the same steps used to disable search index, you can see so many services, disable which are not required.

NOTE: Disable the service only if you know what it is for,never disable unknown searvices, if you disabled important service wheenever Windows needs to start a service it will give some error messages.

Disable the user account control (UAC)

Disable user account control (UAC) in Windows 7, which is sometimes very annoying should also accelerate the PC considerablemente.Hay many features that can be turned off and their overall effect is to free up disk space, which in turn increases computer speed greatly.
  1. Go to start menu and search for - Change User Account Control Settings.
  2. Click on the "Change User Account Control Settings" in the search results.
  3. Now a window will popup with a vertical slider on the left.To turn off UAC drag the slider to bottom and to turn on drag it to second position from the top.
  4. You will need administrative password or confirmation.
You will need to reboot your system for UAC to be turned off

Clean the windows registry

You can also clean the windows registry as a precaution final. A registry cleaner software can scan the window system for defects and ensure that all errors and unnecessary registry entries, disposed of safely and automatically.


Warning : Always back up your system before doing any changes to it. If you made any mistake then it may cause serious issue to your system.


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