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PC Performance Improvements You Can Do (For FREE)

You may have had your Desktop or Laptop computer for a while and as time had gone by and as you had installed more applications (or specific applications) the speed of the computer had gone substantially down. Or, maybe, your PC was slow to begin with, and you wonder if you can do anything other than getting a new PC. Or, perhaps, you made the mistake to give your PC to your children and after that super Truck or Construction game, things are not working anymore like they used to work! 

The following are some articles that can help you in improving the performance of your PC. Some are geared to beginners and others require a bit more working knowledge with PCs. Either way, you will want to make sure that you backup your important data on your computer before making any changes, installations, un-installations, tuning improvements, and the like. 

Simple Improvement Tips

• Step-By-Step: Tune Up Your Windows XP Machine by Stan Miastkowski
  Details: This article will show you how to check your hard drives for errors, defragmenter your hard drives, clean-up spyware, clean-up un-needed files.
  http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,115630/article.html
  
• Beginners Guides: 99 Performance Tips for Windows XP
  Details: Particularly check tip #45 (Defragmenter Your Hard Drive), tip #82 (Eliminate Unwanted Programs from Boot-Up), tip #91 (Disable unnecessary services)
  http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1590
  
• Turn off Indexing to speed up XP
  http://www.tweakxp.com/article36980.aspx
  

Requires Stronger PC Working Knowledge

• Various Performance Tips by TweakXP.com
  Details: Please be discerning about which ones are appropriate to implement for you and which ones are not.
  http://www.tweakxp.com/performance_tweaks.aspx
  
• Various Usability Tweaks by TweakXP.com
  http://www.tweakxp.com/usability_tips.aspx 
  
• Full list of services and some recommendations of which can be stopped and which not, depending on the intended use of the PC:
  http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks6.htm
  
• Keep It Simple: Our 50 tips show you how to simplify Windows and your system from startup to shutdown by Scott Spanbauer
  Details: Particularly check the section on "Streamline Startup and Shutdown"
  http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,117409-page,1/article.html?findid=44042
  
• Turn off System Restore to save space
  Details: If you turn this off you will not be able to use Windows System Restore to restore your system in case of failure.
  http://www.tweakxp.com/article36996.aspx
  
• Turn off disk performance monitors http://www.tweakxp.com/article37020.aspx 
  
• Windows 2k/XP Tweaks
  http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=1404
  
• Tune XP Tips
  http://www.tunexp.com/tips/ 
  
• Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
  Details: Some of these PowerToys are experimental and can cause crashes on your computer, which may require you to uninstall them.
  
• Windows Vista Tweaks NEW!
  http://www.tweakvista.com/ 

Good Resources for PCs and Performance Improvements

• PC World: http://www.pcworld.com
• PC Magazine: http://www.pcmag.com
• Tweak Hound: http://www.tweakhound.com/

Some performance related tips

1. Disable System Restore (if you are confident that you will not need this service).
2. Reload the registry without rebooting, by using Task Manager and "end process" for Explorer, then select "new task" and run "explorer" to restart it and reload the registry.
3. BIOS: update to the latest BIOS from the motherboard manufacturer, disable ports and features that you don't use;

 

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