Speed Up Your Windows 7 by Tweaking the System

WARNING!

All the tweaks shown are optional.

Use the teaks at your own discretion.

Change the Power Plan to Maximum Performance

The Power settings in Windows 7 is not automatically set for maximum performance. By default, the power plan in Windows 7 is set for a balanced performance with energy consumption on hardware. So you may not get the best performance out of your system.

1. Double click the Power Options in Control Panel
2. Click Show Additional Plans to see the High Performance plan
3. Your PC is now using maximum performance (If your PC is a laptop, this may affect battery time)

Speed Up Windows 7 Bootup Time

1. Click Start and click to type on Search programs and files .
2. Type msconfig in the bar and press Enter to open up the System Configuration
3. Click on the Boot tab .
4. You will see the box called Time Out. This is the time (in seconds) which the system waits for the user to select the operating system to boot to.
5. Set the value to 3.
6. Chect the No GUI Boot option (it turns off the windows 7 logo at boot up).
7. Click Apply and OK.

How to See What Your Windows 7 Restart Time is
This application will show you how long in seconds it takes your Windows 7 to restart back to desktop. See the instruction and download the app HERE
Disable the Aero Theme on Windows 7

1. Right Click on your Desktop and select Personalize. Click the Window Color tab.
2. Uncheck the box saying Enable Transparency and then click on Open classic apperance properties for more color options.
3. Then a window will pop up. Apply a Standard theme on it.

Change the Visual Effects for Best Performance

1. Right click on Computer and select Properties from the right click menu.
2. Click on Advanced System Setting from the left pane to open up the System Properties window.
3. Select the Advanced tab. Then under Performance click Settings.
4. Choose Adjust for best performance and apply settings.

Disable Unwanted Startup Programs

1. Click Start.
2. Type in msconfig in the Search programs and files and press Enter.
3. In the System Configuration window, the Startup tab shows all the programs that "startup" when Windows starts.
4. Go through each of them as disabling important programs may fail your programs to load.
5. Click OK and restart your computer to apply settings.

Disable the Unwanted Services

1. Click Start.
2. Type in Services in the Search programs and files tab and press Enter.

To disable an Unwanted Service:

1. Scroll down and click the service you want to adjust.
2. Right click on the service and choose properties.
3. Click the Stop button.
4. Select Disable or Manual in the Startup type scroll bar.

Services to Disable:

Application Experience

Computer Browser (If your PC does not connect to any network)

Desktop Window Manager Session Manager (If you don't want the aero effects)

Diagnostic Policy Service

Distributed Link Tracking Client

IP Helper

Offline Files

Portable Device Enumerator Service

Print Spooler (If you do not use Printer)

Protected Storage

Remote Registry (You can safely disable it for more Security)

Secondary Logon

Security Center

Server (If your computer do not connect with any network)

Tablet PC Input Service

TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper

Windows Defender

Windows Error Reporting Service

Windows Media Center Service Launcher

Windows Search (If you rarely use Windows Search feature )

Windows Time (If you do not want to synchronize system time with internet time automatically)

Disable the User Account Control (UAC) Feature

1. Open the User Accounts and Family Safety from Control Panel.
2. Click User Account.
3. Click the User Account Control settings link.
4. Drag the slider towards Never notify.
5. Click OK and restart to apply settings.

Speed Up the Shut Down Time

1. Click Start.
2. Type in regedit in the Search programs and files and press Enter.
3. In regedit go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
4. In the right pane, right click on WaitToKillServiceTimeout and click Modify.
5. Type in 1000 and apply settings.