HOW TO SPEED UP YOUR PC

My guide to running a fast PC
For those of you who cannot afford the luxuries of high ram, large hard drives, and enough graphics , you will find refuge here.

I have experience in every windows OS from XP on to seven, and so far according to my research these tips work on all of them. However, for the sake of starting arguments, I run windows XP

Now, you may have a windows machine and wonder how you can make it faster without going buy ram, because lets face it, not everyone can afford it. Well, welcome to my guide. Just follow these steps closely, and you will notice a difference

Tip #1: Maintaining your start-up items

You may not think about it often, but in reality your start-up items play a large roll in both your boot times, and your system's overall performance. I know, a lot of you probably do not pay it any mind, if its not broke don't fix it right? Well, not really. If your like me, and like to keep a computer running, you learn to look behind the scenes. Note: be careful, disabling the wrong items can cause problems, if your not sure what something does, just leave it alone.

You can view your start-up items by going to run and typing in msconfig. When msconfig comes up, go to your start-up tab, and disable things that aren't needed. Also when your dealing with programs like utorrent that tend to start with windows, virutally every program has an option to disable this. Utilize it. You can have a program without it running all the time. Besides, who uses a program 24-7? (never mind do not answer that..........)

Tip #2: choosing an OS that fits your hardware

Sure, everyone loves windows 7, very few like vista Well, your hardware plays a huge factor, allow me to elaborate.

Minimum Specs for windows OS

Windows XP: 512MB of Ram or more
Windows Vista: 1-2GB of Ram
Windows 7: 1-2GB of ram

To give you an example, I run on 1GB of ram, and i love speed so i went for XP. When choosing your OS you want to make sure your ram can handle it. if you run an operating system with specs under whats required, it will be very slow and may even crash, so try not to do this

Tip #3 FOR better performance try keeping less icons on your desktop so that it will speed also
also go in run => type 'msconfig'=>then go in services tab and disable that program which is not in use so that u get a good startup

Tip #4 Adjusting system settings for better performance

As you guys know there are certian aspects to your windows that makes it visually appealing. These aspects range from visual styles, to cursor shadows and drop down menus. To change your settings for best performance, or to customize your settings to better suit you, go to start, right click my computer, properties, advanced, and then click settings under the performance tab.

There are more, but how about getting your hands dirty? Thats right guys, its time for some tweeking.

For a baster boot-up, go to run, type regedit. go to HKEY_Local_Machine, system, current control set, control, then content index. Then, scroll until you find an item called startup delay. by default your setting will probably be 480000, changing it to 40000 will do the trick. just make sure you dont try any other number, because this could cause problems if not done correctly.