How to speed up Windows 7

If your like me and prefer speed over animations and glowing windows then you can turn this all off. This massivly improves the systems speed. This is even more true when using Windows 7 with older desktops and laptops. Fortunatly its very easy to disable most of the UI enhancments that Windows 7 offers by following the process detailed below.

First you need to click start and right click "Computer", then select properties as show in the screenshot below.

From the system properties menu you need to click "Advanced System Settings" from the left hand panel. This will launch a small dialogue with a set of tabs. At this point you should see the dialgue below...

you will notice a button on the "Advanced" tab in the "Performance" group called "Settings", click this button to view the performance settings dialogue as shown below.

By default this should be set to "Let Windows Decide what's best for my Computer", from here just select the "Adjust for best performance" radio button and click "Ok". The settings will then be applied to the computer after a short pause. You will see that Windows 7 looks very different with all of the eye candy turned off but the system will be much faster when under higher loads.

(Information gathered from www.tutorialized.com)

You can also choose the custom setting which allows you to choose which parts of the Windows 7 UI are on or off. Asusual if you have any issues following this tutorial leave a comment below and I will get back to you.

Till' next time,
TheCaff