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How to speed up your computer —- Several methods to speed up your computer massively at startup
Nov 27th
Do you want to speed up your computer massively and enjoy faster computer speed all the time? To a large extent, a slow computer always results from a slow startup. Here, some methods will be discussed on how to greatly speed up your computer at startup.
Firstly, optimize BIOS settings
When booting up the computer, please continuously press “DEL” button to access the BIOS setting wizard, select “Advanced BIOS Feature”, and then “HDD-O”(that is, start from Hard drive) when you see “First Boot Device”; tick “Disable” within “ Above 1Mb Memor Test” and “Enable” within “ Quick Power ON Selftest”; then go to “ Advanced Chipset Feature”, change “ 8 ns/10 ns” to “Fats” or “Turbo” within “ Bank 0/1 DRAM Timing”. You can also change the parameter of “SDRAM CAS Latency” to “2”.
Secondly, optimize Desktop
Please remember not to store many files/folders on the desktop. And it is recommended that you can delete some useless desktop icons. Hence, there will be no need for the system to start too many things when booting up the computer to speed up your computer.
Thirdly, optimize startup programs
When starting up the computer, some programs or services will automatically start. Thus take up large amount of system resource and slow down the computer. So please go to Start -> Run -> type “msconfig” and press “Enter” to access “Services”. Here, please uncheck the programs that do not need to run at windows startup.
Fourthly, remove window boot screen
when booting up, the computer will take some time to load the window boot screen, which will a little slow down the computer. So you can first go to tick “Display contents of system folders” and “Show hidden files and folders” within My Computer/ Tools/ Folder Options/ View. And then go to search a file named “Msdos.sys” under drive C. After finding it out, right click it to select “Properties” and cancel its “Read-only” properties, then open it with Plain Text Editor, add “logo=0” at the end of the “Option” paragraph. Hence, it will a little speed up your computer at startup.
Last, regularly maintain system.
We know that too many installed programs will also become one main cause for a slower computer. So you need to periodically maintain the system with the packaged Maintenance Wizard within System Tools. Moreover, to speed up your computer, a simple disk defragmentation is needed, too.
With the above several methods, you can massively speed up your computer. But among all of them, lots of PC users will always ignore disk defragmentation, taking it for granted that it has nothing to do with the computer speed. That is wrong for a defragment process will help to rearrange the file locating on the hard disk and store all parts of a file always close together and contiguously. Only in this way, will it be much faster for the hard disk head to read or write some related data.
As what you see above, it is easy for you to speed up your computer in many ways. But please bear in mind that a disk defragmentation can not be neglected when trying to get a faster computer. Go to run one if you have never run it before!
Startup problems — How to deal with slow startups
Nov 11th
No matter what the computer is used for, I believe it will hardly be a pleasant experience to find it run slow at startup. Here, some solutions will be discussed on how to fix this startup problem, and to speed up computers at startups.
If your computer always boots slow, maybe you can consider adding a new RAM to completely speed up the computer. But if it used to run fairly fast, but suddenly become slower, it will be a little abnormal. But the solutions below may help you.
1) Scan the computer for virus and malware
As we all know once the computer is infected by virus or malware, it will become extremely slow at startups. So a scan is necessary. But before the scan, please first update your anti-virus program to ensure a completely latest virus database.
2) Optimize startup programs
When using the computer, we will always install programs on the computer. Some will add entries to startup automatically when windows startup. To deal with a slow startup, you must learn to turn off some programs that do not need to start up at booting up the computer. You can go to Start -> Run -> type msconfig and press Enter to access Startup. Here, you can delete entries that do not need to automatically run at windows startup. But please do not turn off the anti-virus program because of the real-time safeguard of the computer.
3) Defragment and optimize PC registry
During startup, windows system will read the relevant data in registry and most startup time is spent on this process. So it becomes necessary to regularly defragment and optimize the PC registry. Because of the blooming development of the Internet technology, it is very easy for us to get access to some very advanced registry cleaner from the internet. But no matter which program you are using, it is recommended to first back up the registry before.
4) Regularly maintain system.
Too many installed PC games, programs on the computer will also cause a slow computer and startup, so it is better to thorough maintain the entire system. You can go to Start -> All programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Maintenance Wizard and then click “Yes” to begin the maintenance process, keeping the computer always run at maximum optimization. Besides, to solve a computer slow startup, a disk defragmentation is needed regularly for it will rearrange the files on the hard disk, making all parts of a file always stay close together and contiguously. In this way, it will be much easier to get access to when trying to read / read it, and speed up the computer.
Normally, we can defragment the computer directly by going to Start -> All programs -> Accessories -> System Tools, and then select Disk Defragmenter. This will significantly make the computer run faster at startups. But from a questionnaire, we find that nowadays, more and more people prefer to defragment their computers with a third-party defrag program rather than the stubborn windows built-in Disk Defragmenter for it always cost very long time to get through the defragment process.
So here, in order to effectively solve the startup problem and speed it up, I recommend you to use Advanced Defrag, which will help your quickly defragment your computer thoroughly, making it not only run faster at startup, but also during the whole process of using the computer. If you want to have a faster computer, go to have a try of this wonderful program.