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5 Tips to speed up your windows

Published: Feb 9th, 2009 | Author: Crank Up Add Comment

Most of my friends, who are not techies, complain that their system is very slow and windows takes lot of time to start up. I always give them these 5 simple tips. I thought I will post it here so that some one might find it useful.

Techies!!! These tips are not for you

1. Remove unwanted programs from startup : The most annoying habit of a software is attaching itself to windows startup without the permission of the user. More programs in the startup means more time to start windows. Here is how you can remove unwanted programs from starting up automatically when windows starts.

• Click Start -> Run -> msconfig

• Select Startup tab and you will see a list of programs which will start when windows starts

• Remove all unwanted programs. This includes Messengers also. You can always start them manually. Make sure you don’t remove anti virus software

• Click Apply and ok.
• Restart the system.

2. Remove unwanted software: Make sure you uninstall all those software which you installed for testing. Sometimes Windows Add/Remove Programs will not remove all the necessary files and registry entries. You can use free Uninstallers like Rev Uninstaller to clean up your system.
3. Defrag your System regularly : If you are tired of using Windows Defragment tool which is very slow, Try out Auslogics Disk Defrag. Its Free, Light weight and one of the fastest tool I have ever seen. Defragmenting your hard drive will make the system to load your programs faster.