How to speed up your PC?

How many of us have ever encountered the problem of Windows slowing down in due course of time?

If your answer is yes then here is a solution which will make your computer work comparatively faster .This slowdown of Windows happens due to many reasons like –

1. Windows has a new feature called Prefetch. This keeps a shortcut to recently used programs this in return slows the startup.

Solution:

To get rid of this, we should periodically clean this shortcuts thus created.

To clean this : :

Go to Start / Run / Prefetch

Press Ctrl-A to highlight all the shortcuts

Delete them

2. Windows have larger amount of page file memory occupied.

Solution:

We can clear the page file memory on shutdown each time we switch off out pc.

For this:

Click on the Start button

Go to the Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Local Security Policy/Local Policies

Click on Security Options

Right hand menu - right click on "Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile"

Select "Enable"

Reboot

Infact if we want to clear the page file memory on each shutdown. We can do some edits in the registry ..

Go to Start / Run / regedit

Start Regedit

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEM/CurrentControl/SetControlSession /ManagerMemory Management/ClearPageFileAtShutdown

Set the value to 1

3. The booting time has increased.

Solution:

We can decrease the boot time by::

Microsoft has made available a program to analyze and decrease the time it takes to boot to WindowsXP

The program is called BootVis

Uncompress the file.

Run BOOTVIS.EXE

For a starting point, run Trace / Next Boot + Driver Delays

This will reboot your computer and provide a benchmark

After the reboot, BootVis will take a minute or two to show graphs of your system startup.

Note how much time it takes for your system to load (click on the red vertical line)

Then run Trace / Optimize System

Re-Run the Next Boot + Drive Delays

Note how much the time has decreased

Mine went from approximately 35 to 25 seconds.

Bimmy (sonumour@gmail.com)