This article by David Miller, PC World, appears on Google News. It is about improving the performance of Windows 7.
Optimize Your Windows 7 PC - PC World
I wonder if those of you who have used Windows 7 for a long time think the things Miller suggests will make any noticeable improvement in an already snappy system?
Thank you.
Most of those tips and tricks will work with previous Windows versions as well.
While they do have a noticeable impact, this is simply an article by a lazy writer
This should be able to help improve your computer's performance more.
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...ndows-7-a.html
The PC World article is what I would call a "conservative view". Most of those are known tweaks. I don't know whether I would play around with the MenuShowDelay. What amazes me is that he left out the deletion of the hibernation file.
But all of those tweaks yield relatively little at the end. If you want to make a quantum jump in performance, you'll have to go with an SSD. Then your pages will show up faster than you can lift the finger from the mouse.
Well, $250 for 80GBs may not be cheap. But I think it is worth every penny. There is nothing you can do to your system for the same money that would yield a similar performance improvement. And for desktops, 80GBs are sufficient to house the OS. The user data can go on a HDD. For laptops that is a different story.
As anyone actually done extensive testing and verifying that disabling Windows built-in services actually improves performance? And I do not mean just a placebo effect, but cold hard numbers. Those who think it helps performance have no understanding on the Memory Manger or any of the Resource Managers nor the priority systems. And I can assure you, other then boot times, it will have no effect on performance.
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