This following procedure is very safe to follow on, and is compatible with Windows 7, Vista or XP.
What makes your computer slow? It vary on different PCs. Different RAM sizes may vary performance.
Step 1: Spend a little bit more money on electricity.
Head over to Power Options settings (Laptops: click the battery icon in the system tray [bottom right])(PC Desktops: Start>Control Panel>Power Options)
You will see a variety of power plans, (High Performance will use more battery, more power being drained)(Power Saver will make you lag a bit, but last your battery time for longer period of time.
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Step 2: Start up taking too long.
If brought a laptop, you may discover how much softwares they install? Recommending the laptop to run at start up.
Win7/Vista:
search: "Msconfig"
XP: start>run>Msconfig
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now, you will see small dialog with tabs, select start up tab.
You will see a bunch of checked item.
Take your time unchecking the useless ones that take up memory thus making start up boot longer.
Beware: look at the directory options and search if they happen to be located in "c:/windows" directory, DO NOT UNCHECK.
Thanks.
This is guaranteed to make your PC/Laptop faster with no softwares required.
Hello,
Thank you for this helpful topic.
This is good for the people that have latency problems.
Feel free to post more items like this..
Also, I believe this belongs in Technical Support.
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Yes... technical support.
Request move, please. :)
Thank the lord for some nerdo like you volti! :P haha.. My computer was pretty slow but now it goes faster! Thank-you for posting this!
lol good work finding out see people what u can accomplish if u just set ur mind and think! cough....
thanks
dug :P