What can I do to make my laptop perform better? [Acer Extensa 5235]

[Stylah]

Hey SF,
I was wondering would I be able to tweak about with my laptop to make it perform better? Run quicker, boot quicker?
It's recently been formatted and it takes 126 seconds to re-boot.

http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/pl/27-2609439/Laptop-Computers/Acer-Extensa-5235-902G16Mn-Intel-Celeron-M-900-2.2GHz-2GB-160GB-LED15.6-DVDRW-Win-7-Pro-Compare-Prices

- That's my current model.

Running Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit.
Can you overclock laptops, if so should I do it with this?
Could I pick up any parts for this and install them in?

Thanks,
Stylah.

 

[Jacee]

Add more Ram ... disable or set some services to start manually when you need them.

Here are some tips by BlackViper Black Viper’s Windows 7 Service Configurations | Black Viper's Website | www.blackviper.com

Just above the chart is a box to show 10 entries ... change that to 100.

 

[Stylah]

Thanks Jacee!

 

[Jacee]

You're welcome

 

[marsmimar]

In addition to Jacee's advice, here are a couple more things for you to consider:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11728-optimize-windows-7-a.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/152002-how-improve-computer-performance.html

 

[Stylah]

Thanks marsmimar!

 

[marsmimar]

You're quite welcome!

 

[gregrocker]

Here are some tips to clean up a factory bloatware install which should make your Acer startup faster and it's performance more snappy: Clean up factory bloatware

 

[Layback Bear]

All those post are great and will help you. Just keep in mind Windows likes more Ram and uses it well.

 

[kodi]

Change the Boot drive to a Solid State Drive
Max out the ram
Run msconfig and stop any programs from starting that do not need to run all the time.
Remove all the Acer Bloatware, I formatted my wife's Acer and installed a new retail copy of windows 7 and now use Absolutely NO Acer software at all and it runs a lot better.

 

[fafhrd]

Hi, Stylah, try this:

Start button, Right-click Computer, select Manage and the Device Manager.

Are there any warnings? - little yellow triangles with a ! on?

That means a device driver has not loaded properly - and it accounts for some of the extra minute or so on your start-up time, as Windows tries to find and load the driver, and fails.

Let us know if all is OK so that device drivers can be eliminated as the source of your start-up delay problems.