10 Windows speed tips that DON'T work.

Breaking the Myth!

JMH said:

Tweaks that do nothing, or could even slow your PC down.




Many speedup tools include the "unload DLLs" tweak - but it hasn't done anything useful for years


If your PC seems to have slowed down recently, then there's plenty of help to be found online.

A few minutes at Google will turn up hundreds of speed-up guides and tweaking tools, each promising that they can revitalise your system.

And that would be fine, if it wasn't for the fact that many of their tweaks are obsolete, some are urban myths and have never worked, and a few will even cut your performance.

Identifying the dubious tips can be difficult, though, so we've got you off to a head start by listing our top 10.

Despite some of them not doing anything since Windows 98, and others being utterly useless on all versions of Windows, most have regularly appeared in speed-up guides and tools across the web. But, as you'll see, they're all best avoided, so you can focus your attention on the speed-up tweaks that actually deliver.

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Good post! Those that really need this info, unfortunately, will probably never read it.

manhunter2826 said:

Interesting read -- and I simply think Windows 7 needs very little tweaking, out of the box IMO . Thanks JMH.

I agree 100%.

NoN said:

Breaking the Myth!

Unfortunately, the myths persist.

Desslok said:

Some of those tweaks even on XP wouldn't do anything if you had a clean install. On systems that were jacked up, some of them would help a little in some cases, but they were really bandaging the problems.

Exactly.

HellionDarklord said:

oh, but there are things that will speed stuff up.
(will do a big post later)

There is no tweaks or settings in Windows that will speed things up. Period. Modifying the default, out of the box setup of Windows with not improve performance. Period.

The only thing that will speed up your computer is more RAM.

HellionDarklord said:

oh, but there are things that will speed stuff up.
(will do a big post later)

We do have tutorial on speeding up Win 7. It is basically cutting out the bells, whistles and glitter. I agree with logicearth; but I am looking forward to reading what you post.