How to Speed Up Windows 7

Perhaps you might have asked yourself the question, “why is my windows 7 slow?’ at a certain time. Then ask yourself no more because below are tried and tested techniques to Speed Up Windows 7.

First of all, ensure that you have the basic minimum requirements for Windows 7 to run smoothly. They are:

1) GHz processor (32- or 64-bit)
2)1GB of main memory
3)16 GB of available disk space.
4) Support for DX9 graphics with 128 MB of memory (for the Aero interface)
5) A DVD-R/W drive

If you have met those requirements and Windows 7 is still slow, then the problem might be elsewhere. As a first step, you should disable the search index feature on your PC. This feature is only needed when you perform frequent searches on your system.

The next step should be to disable the Aero Theme. The aero feature interferes with your graphics or video card to a maximum. If you want to authenticate this, just look at the memory consumption when the aero feature is turned on and off.

Next, you should disable the unwanted extra services on your PC. This helps to speed up the boot time. Certain services such as the printer features can only be turned on when the need arises. This helps to free up the disk space.

Disabling the user account control(UAC) feature in windows 7 which is sometimes very annoying should also speed up the PC considerably. There are many features which you can disable and their total effect is to free up disk space which in turn vastly increases the speed of the computer. You could also clean the windows registry as a final precaution.