How To Make Windows 7 Faster

Follow these guidelines to improve your Windows 7 working speed:

1. Disable the Windows 7 Sidebar and Gadgets
If you never use the Gadgets, and if you want to disable the Windows 7 sidebar, here is how you can do it.
Right click on the sidebar and select Properties. On the properties windows untick the check box showing “Start sidebar when Windows Starts”. From now on windows sidebar won’t start when windows 7 start up.

2. Turn off visual effects
Click Start button , then click Control Panel.
In the search box, type “Performance Information and Tools”, and then, in the list of results, click on the “Performance Information and Tools”. Click “Adjust visual effects”.
Click the Visual Effects tab, choose Adjust For Best Performance, and then click OK.

3. Choose Maximum Performance Power Plan
Advanced power plan settings allow you to adjust a wide range of hardware power-saving and performance features. You can even change the maximum/minimum CPU usage, which can have a huge performance impact when set incorrectly.
Open Power Options by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Security, and then clicking Power Options.
On the Select a power plan page, activate the “High Performance” plan and that’s it.

4. Disable the Windows 7 Aero Theme
The Windows Aero Glass interface for Windows 7 requires a decent video card, you won’t be able to use it on an old computer.
Right click anywhere on your desktop and select Personalize.
In the Personalization window, choose any of the available Basic and High Contrast theme . Windows 7 will apply the new theme automatically.

5. Disable the Windows 7 Search Indexing Feature
In order to speed up the search process, the Search indexing service scans through the files and folders on the Windows system and records information about them in an index file. But it also consumes some resources of the system, so for the users with a slow computer it is beneficial to turn off search indexing. Go through the following simple steps to achieve it.
- Right Click the Computer Icon in the desktop and select Manage.
- Click Services and Applications in the Computer Management window.
- Click on Services.
- You can see a lot of services listed there. Look for Windows Search in that.
- Right Click on Windows Search from the list and choose Properties.
- The Windows Search Properties Window will open up. From Startup type click on the drop down menu and choose Disabled.
- Click Apply then OK and that’s it. The Windows 7 Search Indexing Feature is now disabled.

6. Speed up Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Preview
- Click on Start, enter “regedit” into the search field.
- Goto: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse
- Double-click on “MouseHoverTime” and change the value to 100 or lower. Your thumbnail previews should appear a lot faster now.

7. Disable the Thumbnail Preview Feature to speed up File browsing
If you want to speed up browsing around in explorer, you might think about disabling thumbnail previews in folders.
- Open Folder Options (Open a “Windows Explorer” window. Click on the Organize button. Click on Folder and Search Options.)
- Click on the View tab.
- Check Always show icons, never thumbnails, then click on OK.

8. Use Automatic Logon to Speed up Windows 7
If you are the only person with access to your PC and feel you don’t need to secure it with a password then you can use automatic logon to save a few seconds. This will boot right to your desktop without any need to enter a password and wait for loading.