The Windows 7 has become a very popular operating system by Now, and the computer speed has been our greatest concern for pc users. If you rarely do the optimization of windows 7 after it was running for a long time, the speed of your win 7 will be very slow. Here we will give several help tips to increase windows 7 speed and make it faster. Check them below and we hope you can share this page to your friends if they need like you, thanks.

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Everyone wants to optimize their computer running at optimal condition, such as: how to make windows 7 boot time faster; how to speed up windows 7 shutdown... But here we just show our own experience of ways that how to optimize and then improve your win7 computer's performance. You can choose which one is suitable to your windows 7 system, check them following:

• 1. Upgrade your memory(RAM): The Windows 7/Vista system needs more memory than Windows xp because of the SuperFetch(from Vista). You can upgrade or add new memory to boost your system performance. If you are using the 32-bit system, 3GB of memory is sufficient, and 4GB of memory is enough for the 64-bit system. But you'd better have more than 4gb of memory if you are using the CAD or other video editing softwares. Note: Only do this will not improve your overall system performance, because your computer must keep up with other hardware devices, such as: CPU and graphics card.
   
• 2. Arrange C drive and other drives: This point is very important. You should not install all the applications and files on your system drive(the default would be drive C). We recommend you retain at least 50G of space for the system drive(drive C). The necessary softwares can be installed on your C drive after installing the OS, such as: Office softwares, decompression softwares(Winrar), browser, audio video players... Don't worry about that, 50G of space is enough to install these softwares and OS. And install the softwares or files which are not very necessary to other drives, example: You can only put the movies/music/photos files into drive D:, only install the games into drive E:, and put the other softwares into drive F:, you can arrange the drives according to your own situation. Keep in mind that do not install the softwares if you needn't. Keep your system simple.
   
• 3. Keep your drivers up to date: You may ask: "Where to download the drivers?" Sometimes you can update the drivers which are from major manufacturers by the Microsoft's automatic update, you can choose whether to install them. You can also use some of the driver update software to detect and update your computer drivers, such as driver detective which can better detect what drivers your computer needs to be updated. Keep the latest drivers can ensure optimal performance. Example: update video card drivers can effectively improve the game performance. Especially for windows 7, the driver update will be very frequent required. You'd better update them regularly.
   
• 4. Uninstall the programs the right way: This is a good habit. You can uninstall the applications with their own "uninstall.exe" files; Or steps: > start > control panel >add or remove programs > select which one you want to uninstall > double-click it and wait for it to complete.
   
• 5. Clean up garbage on the system: There will be a lot of junk files after you install/uninstall the softwares, browse websites... You can remove the junk files with the CCleaner tool and clean up registry with the registry mechanic tool. Do not forget to clean your computer regularly with the two softwares.
   
• 6. Use the "hibernate" or "sleep" if you come back later: Because the superfetch has to preload your most-often used applications in the boot. If you need something to do and go out, but you want to use your pc immediately after coming back, we suggest you do not shut down your pc and choose one of them, the superfetch pre-loaded applications will be retained, and the speed will be ok after you reusing it.
   
• Others:
  
  Readyboost: This is not too popular by now. Because most of us have the memory more than 2GB. If your memory is from 512MB to 1GB, you can open it using this steps: > insert the USB flash memory > right-click it > click on "Properties" > click the "ready boost" > choose how many MB you need then click "ok".
  
  Disk Defragmenter: You can enable defragmentation schedule, my schedule is running once a week. Steps: > Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter.
  
  Only one good anti-virus software: This is to prevent system conflicts. Such as: avira, east nod32...
  
  Reduce startup programs: You can search lots of pages about this, we will not repeat them here.

 

That the ways we can think how to increase windows 7 speed and performance, if you have other better ways please email us. Based on the certain hardwares, you'd better keep your system drive space bigger, and please remember to clean up your computer regularly :)

 

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