Disabling the Search Indexing Feature in Windows 7
- Click “Services and Applications” in the “Computer Management” window.
- Click on “Services”.
- You’d see a lot of services being listed inside the window. Find “Windows Search” from the list.
- Right Click on “Windows Search” 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.
Turn off Unused Windows 7 Features
- Open up ” Programs and Features ” from Control Panel.
- Click the ” Turn Windows features on or off ” from the left pane.
- Now un-check all the Feature that you don’t use in Windows 7 and restart the system for the changes to take effect.
- There are many features in windows 7 that we often don’t use. Disabling these unused features in Windows 7 would help in speeding things up.
Disable Unwanted Start Up Items for Speeding Up Windows 7 Start Up
- Type ” msconfig ” in the “RUN” option from start menu press [Enter] to open up the System Configuration Utility.
- Now navigate to the “StartUp” tab.
- Un-tick the Entries which are not needed
- When you have installed a lot of software on your PC, there might be a lot of services that would start along with windows. For example, software such as AcdSee will run services such as device detector during the system start up. These are of no use for regular windows users (unless you transfer photos to your pc via a camera). So preventing such services from starting up along the windows 7 startup session, can result in quicker startups.
- Now navigate to the “StartUp” tab.
- Un-tick the Entries which are not needed
- When you have installed a lot of software on your PC, there might be a lot of services that would start along with windows. For example, software such as AcdSee will run services such as device detector during the system start up. These are of no use for regular windows users (unless you transfer photos to your pc via a camera). So preventing such services from starting up along the windows 7 startup session, can result in quicker startups.
Disable the Aero Theme on Windows 7
- Right Click on your Desktop and select ” Personalize ” click the Window Color Tab.
- Uncheck the Box saying ” Enable Transparency ” and then click on ” Open classic appearance properties for more color options”.
- You may also Apply a Standard or Basic theme from the previous window. The Standard Windows 7 theme is more preferred as its gives a neutral look than the classy windows old theme.
- The aero user interface certainly adds some ” Eyecandy ” to Windows 7 but it requires a good hardware and system resources to run smoothly. Older graphics cards would be squeezed to their maximum when aero is forcefully enabled. So if you are on the same line, Disabling the Aero in Windows 7 certainly adds an extra speed boost to it.
- Disabling the aero theme in Windows 7 will speed things up as the hardware could now be allocated more resources and you could try checking the memory consumption when aero is turned on and off.
- Uncheck the Box saying ” Enable Transparency ” and then click on ” Open classic appearance properties for more color options”.
- You may also Apply a Standard or Basic theme from the previous window. The Standard Windows 7 theme is more preferred as its gives a neutral look than the classy windows old theme.
- The aero user interface certainly adds some ” Eyecandy ” to Windows 7 but it requires a good hardware and system resources to run smoothly. Older graphics cards would be squeezed to their maximum when aero is forcefully enabled. So if you are on the same line, Disabling the Aero in Windows 7 certainly adds an extra speed boost to it.
- Disabling the aero theme in Windows 7 will speed things up as the hardware could now be allocated more resources and you could try checking the memory consumption when aero is turned on and off.
Disabling the Unwanted Visual Effects in Windows 7
- Right click on ” Computer” and select “Properties” from the right click menu.
- Click on ” Advanced System Settings ” from the left pane to open up the ” System Properties ” window.
- Select the “Advanced” tab from it. Then Under ” Performance ” click ” Settings “. Choose ” Custom: ” Options From it.
- Now un-tick all the options (Choose “Adjust for best performance“) and select only the last four options (actually three are preferable you may un- tick the second option out of the last four).
- Now just logoff your system and login again.
Even though we have tuned off the aero effects in Windows 7 still there are many unwanted visual effects that could be safely disabled to speed up windows 7 performance.
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