How can i slim down my Windows 7? Any kind of program

[gregrocker]

There is no need to manually tweak Windows 7 for gaming...

...just get this tweaking program to do it for you!

 

[karlsnooks]

I haven't read thru the thread, but---

All of those tweak programs are a waste of your time and money.

Win 7 is NOT XP

Win 7 is NOT XP

Win 7 is NOT Vista

Win 7 is NOT Vista

Trying to remove the pain that people inflict upon themselves with tweak programs already consumes too much of my time.

People stay away from tweak programs.

 

[Lordbob75]

Just about the only "tweaking" you would ever need to do is turn off certain services at startup, and even then you won't see a huge difference.

If you want a faster overall PC, then install a light AV (like MSE), get an SSD, an i7, and a 480.

~Lordbob

 

[gregrocker]

Don't see whether it's 32- or 64-bit. 64-bit might need more than 4gb RAM to be fast. It's right on the border.
But 32 bit should run fine @ 4gb.

 

[Maxxwire]

Just about the only "tweaking" you would ever need to do is turn off certain services at startup, and even then you won't see a huge difference.

After I used Black Viper's excellent and comprehensive explanations of Win 7 services and their dependencies I trimmed unneeded services in Win 7 and my Ultrack 340 stopwatch now tells me that it starts 4 seconds faster than it did when it was new back in July. Its only a 17% improvement, but it puts a smile on my face each morning when I start the computer which makes it well worth the hour of time I invested in disabling services I will never need anyway.

~Maxx~
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[karlsnooks]

BOOT AND SHUTDOWN PERFORMANCE​

How to use Event Viewer to view your Boot and Shutdown Performance

WIN key | type EVENTVWR.MSC | ENTER key

First wait for the Event Viewer to be populated-watch the Summary of Administrative Events section.

Now, using the left-hand pane tunnel down as follows:
Applications and services logs | Microsoft | Windows | Diagnostics-Performance | Operational

Right-click on Operational.

In the top-section of the middle pane, various events are listed.

Click on EventID to sort the events from smallest to largest.

EventID 100 is for Boot Performance.
EventID 200 is for Shutdown Performance

 

[madtownidiot]

I disagree... there are a few things you can do to trim down windows 7 for gaming purposes without losing anything important... start by removing features, then disable startup items in MSconfig.. even the AV and your graphics card startup programs can be disabled. Doing that doesn't turn off the AV or disable the graphics card, just the interface for controlling it. Then manually stop and disable unnecessary services.. attached is the present service configuration I have running on 7 professional, very trimmed down.. and absolutely nothing important has stopped working. Windows 7 pro x64 at startup configured this way uses >700MB out of 4GB total on the laptop I'm using right now.. It boots in >25 seconds from a cold start.. (as posted on the reboot time thread about a week ago) ..and takes about 6 seconds from the time the desktop appears to load all the delayed services.. so about 31 seconds from a cold boot to the time it takes to get on the internet or start a game.. and everything still works, and that's without using a SSD

 

[Layback Bear]

Darn folks, I don't get. Four seconds faster boot. Take a deep breath and the 4 seconds is gone. I have posted many times that I don't know of any 3rd party tweaking programs that are needed with Windows 7. The old days of tweaking are gone when you use Windows 7. Isn't that the kind of operating system we have been begging for? If I have to download a 3rd party tweaking program to gain 4 seconds, I need to get a life.

 

[madtownidiot]

I didn't use any tweaking programs. They don't work anyway

 

[Layback Bear]

Thanks karlsnooks great information. Doing this without a 3rd party program, shame on you.:sarc:
+ 1

 

[Layback Bear]

Check out the time difference between booting a pretty picture for a desktop and a plain solid color.

 

[spyknee]

Gentleman,
The threader asked if there was any tips to trimming out his puter for gaming. He did not ask for hacks or negative responses, telling him he's being bad. LOL he never used the word tweak, y'all did, He did not say he was concerned about boot times, he did not even ask about over clocking.
He asked if there is away to be sure his puter is focused on the games he plays and not multi tasking whilest gaming.

Process reduction will help in that. Reducing the decisions a puter makes on its own will help. ie max performance power saving selected, any type of automatic response mechanism disabled.

Only thing that will even show a difference is the bench mark scores, you will never notice it yourself in game, really. Games are about vid cards, ram, and cpu. Get a cpu pushing 4GHz and you wil see a difference, but thats a hardware boost not a software boost.

IMO stay away from 3rd party boost software, not worth it. Ultimately you should spend time with Google researching. Then you can make the changes you want and understand what it is your changing.

 

[Abhishek Ghosh]

Check out the time difference between booting a pretty picture for a desktop and a plain solid color.

Plain solid color will increase the start up time compared to using default Windows 7 wallpapers (specially Harmony along with that theme).

In contrast the previous in editions (say Win 2000) the solid blue color decreased the startup time.


There is no meaning of using a chopped down version of Windows 7; if it really could be made completely bug free, then Microsoft itself would sell "Windows 7 Gamers' Edition".

I can see lot of such editions in Warez sites only, I dont know any standard Windows forum have tested them or not.

To measure the hardware capability, one can use WEI.

 

[Maxxwire]

Check out the time difference between booting a pretty picture for a desktop and a plain solid color.

I use a 3 MB .png version of this .jpeg graphic as a log on screen and a 14.5 MB Dreamscene video on the desktop and my Win 7 computer still sboots in less than 20 seconds just as it always has since I disabled all unneeded services.

~Maxx~
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[madtownidiot]

If you make a png of a solid color, it will boot faster than if you use a solid color from a theme

 

[Abhishek Ghosh]

If you make a png of a solid color, it will boot faster than if you use a solid color from a theme

Yes, you are right. The reason is, Windows will take it as a light image. Good point indeed.

 

[Layback Bear]

Well I think most are getting my point. There are so many things that can change how things work, a little this and a little that but most of them might show on a graft but a human eye will never notice the deference. If one wants a gamer computer there are things to do. Faster multi core cpu, more and faster ram, one or more wop ass video cards, clocked and cooled. Little tweaks (or what ever you want to call them) in services or other operating system things will not bring a speed up of any amount that the human will notice. Windows 7 Gamer operating system is a great idea if one would never need those serveries when there was a problem. How many post have you all read they don't have a restore point, it's turned off. There will be 10 or more people on this site trying to help with 30 or more post when if the restore option was working the repair would just be a few clicks away. The only service I have off are anything that has to do with remote access.

 

[Leopard]

I recommend CCleaner. It is like Windows Disk Cleanup, except that it is highly configurable and feature many more options, including support for cleaning various third party programs. It also has an effective, safe registry cleaner that allows you to backup you registry before cleaning.

Also, you should go to Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel and uninstall thing you don't need or use.

Defragmenting your Hard Drive can also help out a lot. You can use Windows own defragmenter, or use a third-party tool. I use third-party tools myself just because it seems like the built-in utility takes forever and a day to finish the job, and ends up the with the same result as the other (faster) third-party utilities.

Keep an organized directory structure of your various pictures, video, etc. and keep your Start Menu organized.

Lastly, use Microsoft Security Essentials as your anti-virus. It's lean and mean compared to the resource-intensive Norton, Avira, AVG, McAfee, etc...

 

[Maxxwire]

The only service I have off are anything that has to do with remote access.

Same here along with Fax Service, Bit Locker Drive Encryption Service, Bluetooth Support Service, Encrypting File System Service, Human Interface Device Service, Parental Controls Service, PNRP Service, Smart Card and Smart Card Removal Service, SNMP Trap Service, Tablet PC Input Service, TMP Base Services, Web Client Service along with scores of others of Win 7's 164 Services that I do not use including ones like Windows Defender and Windows Firewall which I have replaced with award winning 3rd party programs that have kept my computers attack free and completely without infection for many years.

~Maxx~
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[derekimo]

so i want to install windows 7 and i am agamer. so i need to slim it down and delete the things i dont need. SO is there any program that will let me do it? or can i do after installing it?

So, Did you get your answer yet?