Speed ​​up Windows 7 computers, this is all you need to do

Speeding up Windows 7 helps your computer run faster, smoother, and speed up your computer to help you work more efficiently. This is a comprehensive way to speed up your Win 7 computer from starting up tasks for you.

After a long time of use, you find that your Windows 7 computer is getting slower and slower, which makes you feel extremely uncomfortable when the speed of the machine is like "crawling". So how to speed up your Windows 7 computer, please refer to the following article of Network Administrator.

Part 1: Software and related Services

1. Use MSConfig

The first tip to do this is to use MSConfig. This is an extremely necessary tool for managing many aspects of computer behavior during startup. Here's how:

Press ' Win + R ' on the keyboard. The ' Win ' key is located next to the ' Alt ' key. You will see the dialog box below:

If you can't find the ' Win ' key or your keyboard doesn't have this key, type ' run ' in the search box in the Start menu and press ' Enter '.

Next type ' msconfig ' into the dialog box and press 'Enter'. Now you will see the screen of the MSConfig screen window. In this window, click the ' Startup ' tab. If you find that any program does not need to start when Windows starts, you can uncheck it in the check box next to it.

Alternatively, you can click the ' Services ' tab to disable unnecessary services. You need to know for sure what services and programs you disable because this can sometimes affect the working of the computer. Its consequences can cause the operating system to lose some functionality, but we can still restore it by activating services in the same way.

If you use two or more operating systems on one computer and manage the boot sequence through the current Windows operating system, go to the 'Boot' tab and enter the lowest number under the ' Timeout ' section. The default timeout time for Windows is 30 seconds.

2. Remove unnecessary programs and features

Whenever you buy a new computer or laptop, it integrates software, trial programs, or programs installed by the manufacturer. However, after a period of use, you download dozens of other applications, programs and machines. And invisible programs installed on your computer are the cause of "consuming" system resources. So if you don't need to use or use any programs or applications, it's better to uninstall the program to free up space and speed up your Windows 7 computer.

To remove the installation of software, programs, and applications that you do not use, go to Control Panel => Programs => Uninstall .

Also from Control Panel => Programs => Turn Windows features on or off , remove any Windows features you don't need to use.

3. Use the most effective antivirus program

Make sure your computer or laptop has an antivirus program installed to eliminate viruses as well as non-invasive and harmful malware, malware and spyware on your system.

4. Disable unnecessary services

Some processes and services are not really needed, but by default these processes and services automatically run when your system opens. This is the cause of RAM and processor, causing your computer to work slowly. Therefore you should disable these services.

1. Click Start, then enter services.msc into the Search box and press Enter.

2. Next go to Services & Applications => Services . You should now see the Services window.

3. Right-click any service you want to set to Manual or disable. If the service is running, the first thing you need to do is stop the service.

4. After the service has stopped, right-click on the service again and select Properties .

5. In the Startup type section, you can set up the service as Manual if you want to use the following service, or choose Disable if you do not need to use the service anymore.

6. After finishing, close the window.

Part 2: Visual and audio (Sound)

1. Disable Aero theme

Right-click any space on the Windows 7 Desktop, then select Personalize .

Next on the Personalization window, search and select Windows 7 Basic .

2. Minimal use of Visual Effect

Disabling the Visual Effect can help improve the performance of your Windows 7 computer. To disable Visual Effect, follow the steps below:

1. Press and hold the Windows key, then press the Pause / Break key.

2. At this time, a new window appears on the screen, where you click Advanced in the left pane.

3. At the Advanced tab, under Performance Section , click Settings .

4. On the Performance Options window, go to the Visual Effect tab to disable the options you don't need to use, or simply select Adjust for best performance to disable all options.

5. After disabling the options, click Apply , then click OK.

3. Minimum use of Sound Effect (sound effect)

To disable sound effects, follow the steps below:

1. Click Start , then enter mmsys.cpl in the Search box and press Enter.

2. At this time, the Sound window appears, where you click the Sound tab.

3. Set up Sound scheme is No Sound .

4. You can set the sound needed in Program Events section by selecting specific events, then select the sound from the Dropdown Sound Menu.

5. Alternatively, you can disable the Play Windows Startup sound option .

6. Once done, click Apply then click OK .

Part 3: Related hard drives

1. Check the hard drive error

Right-click the C : drive, then select Properties to open the Properties window. On the Properties window, click the Tools tab. Here you will see the Check now button, when you click on this button will begin the process of checking the C: (or other drive) drive on your computer to detect errors affecting your system.

In addition, you may receive a message stating that Windows cannot check your drive while in use. Click to select Schedule disk check button and restart your computer to start the test process.

2. Clean up the hard drive

Clean up unused files, such as temporary files (temp files), program downloads, files in Recycle Bin, . For this, you can use Disk Cleanup :

1. Click Start => All Programs => Accessories => System Tools => Disk Cleanup .

2. The system will calculate how much space you have used. On the Disk Cleanup window, select the files you want to delete in the Files section.

3. To delete the "System Restore" and "Shadow copy" files, click Clean up system files , then select the More Options tab .

4. Finally click OK. If the message window appears, click Yes .

3. Activate the Write caching option

1. Press and hold the Windows key, then press the Pause / Break key.

2. At this time, a new window appears, where you click Device Manager in the left pane.

3. On the next window, expand the Disk drivers section .

4. At the dropdown menu list will show the hard drive. Right-click it and select Properties .

5. In the Device Properties window, click the Policies tab.

6. Check the Enable write caching section on the device .

7. Alternatively, you can check the box Turn off Windows write-cache flushing buffer on the device , then click OK .

4. Perform Disk Defragmentation (defragment the drive)

1. Click Start => All Programs => Accessories => System Tools => Disk Defragmenter.

2. At this time, there will be a new window on the screen, here you select the drive you want to defragment, then click on the Analyze disk .

3. After the process is complete, click Defragment disk .

4. Finally, you can select View Report or click Close.

Part 4: Some other solutions

1. Device Manager

When you see the loading screen in Windows informing you that 'Starting Windows', it means that the operating system is loading all the necessary device and service drivers. Obviously disabling some drivers that Windows needs to load will improve the boot speed of the operating system. To do this, you must go to Device Manager inside Windows 7.

1. Click the Start menu and ' Control Panel '.

2. When in Control Panel, click ' Hardware and Sound '.

3. Under ' Devices and Printers ', click ' Device Manager '. This will display a window of all devices attached to your computer. By default, Windows must load drivers for all these devices.

4. Expand the device categories and discover which device you don't need to use. Right-click it and select ' Disable '. This will help Windows ignore the drivers for that device. Your task here is to ensure that you do not disable the devices needed for computer operation, such as network interfaces and display adapters.

2. Turn off the Search Indexing service

Search Indexing service is designed to speed up the search of files on computers, especially computers with large hard drive capacity. However, if your Windows 7 computer is slowing down, or the speed is getting worse, it is better to disable the Search Indexing service.

To turn off the Search Indexing service, right-click the C drive , select Properties to open the Properties window. There you find and select the General tab, then remove the Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed ., then click Apply changes to drive C :, subfolders and files on the next dialog box.

Click OK and wait for Windows 7 to make some necessary changes. Follow the same steps for all hard drives on your Windows 7 computer.

3. Check the Power Plan settings

Open Start Menu, then enter the keyword power plan into the Search frame and select Choose a power plan from the search results list.

In the Power Options window, in the Preferred plans section, click on High performance . If you don't see this option appear, click Show additional plans , then click the option.

4. ReadyBoost

ReadyBoost is one of the most well-known features on the Windows operating system and was first integrated on Windows Vista. This feature allows you to quickly use a USB flash driver to store temporary Windows files and the drive you use must have at least 256 MB of free space.

Just plug the USB Flash drive into your computer and select Speed ​​up my system on the AutoPlay dialog box.

On the next dialog box, select Dedicate this device to ReadyBoost and click OK.

5. Upgrade hardware

In addition to methods to change the operating system configuration, you can also upgrade the hardware to do so. The recommended hardware upgrade here includes RAM and SSD. Faster RAM and better quality will speed up the boot process because Windows will use RAM for the entire process.

Hard drives are often the slowest component in a computer, this is because its function relies on the motion of electronic components instead of transistors. If you suspect your hard drive slows down your computer, you only have one solution, using SSD, which is a completely built-in drive of transistors and memory cells. This hard drive usually gives access speed twice as fast as conventional hard drives.

Microprocessors usually do not affect the boot time of computers much, but it can slow down in some way. To test this, open Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc) when Windows starts and check CPU usage. If you see a CPU usage of 100%, you need to replace the CPU. Note, the CPU needs to have the same socket as the motherboard, so you may need to replace the motherboard to match the new generation CPU.

Refer to some of the following articles:

1. Speed ​​up Windows 10 from boot to shutdown

1. Summary of tips to fix computer errors Windows 10/8 / 8.1 / 7 and Windows XP running slowly

1. Unlock hidden features on Windows 10 with some Registry tricks

Good luck!