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.
- Double click the Power Options in Control Panel
- Click Show Additional Plans to see the High Performance plan
- Your PC is now using maximum performance (If your PC is a laptop, this may affect battery time)
- Click Start and click to type on Search programs and files .
- Type msconfig in the bar and press Enter to open up the System Configuration
- Click on the Boot tab .
- 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.
- Set the value to 3.
- Chect the No GUI Boot option (it turns off the windows 7 logo at boot up).
- Click Apply and OK.
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
- Right Click on your Desktop and select Personalize. Click the Window Color tab.
- Uncheck the box saying Enable Transparency and then click on Open classic apperance properties for more color options.
- Then a window will pop up. Apply a Standard theme on it.
- Right click on Computer and select Properties from the right click menu.
- Click on Advanced System Setting from the left pane to open up the System Properties window.
- Select the Advanced tab. Then under Performance click Settings.
- Choose Adjust for best performance and apply settings.
- Click Start.
- Type in msconfig in the Search programs and files and press Enter.
- In the System Configuration window, the Startup tab shows all the programs that "startup" when Windows starts.
- Go through each of them as disabling important programs may fail your programs to load.
- Click OK and restart your computer to apply settings.
- Click Start.
- Type in Services in the Search programs and files tab and press Enter.
- Scroll down and click the service you want to adjust.
- Right click on the service and choose properties.
- Click the Stop button.
- Select Disable or Manual in the Startup type scroll bar.
Disable the User Account Control (UAC) Feature
- Open the User Accounts and Family Safety from Control Panel.
- Click User Account.
- Click the User Account Control settings link.
- Drag the slider towards Never notify.
- Click OK and restart to apply settings.
- Click Start.
- Type in regedit in the Search programs and files and press Enter.
- In regedit go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
- In the right pane, right click on WaitToKillServiceTimeout and click Modify.
- Type in 1000 and apply settings.
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