Windows Performance Sucks (Over Time)

Hopefully this will help you guys: Take note, this article will only apply to Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Windows 8 is the same idea, but the steps differ slightly.

Everyone complains about having a slow machine, either you, or someone you know does. Lets just face it, Windows sucks in various ways, but that is why i am here to help. In this topic, im only going to cover one simple method that could very much help you improve your computers preformance.

Lesson # 1: never trust things on the internet that states 'speed up your PC' this 'optimize your PC' that, or what ever that advertises speeding your PC up. The reasons is solely for two reasons: Windows Clutter, and Hardware. . . Hardware are the physical components on your machine, they have a fixed rate they can preform at and cannot be surpassed (without overclocking for some parts). Windows clutter sucks, its like driving a new car off the lot; once you drive it away from the dealer, the car loses value. Same with computers, once you start using a freshly loaded Windows computer and start installing shit, the machine becomes slower and slower and slower. If you install shit that advertises spedding up your PC, your actually doing more harm than help because your actually contributing to 'cluttering' your machine more (so if you have something like that, get rid of it).

2 Ways to get rid of a fair amount of windows clutter:

1: uninstall ALL programs that are unnecessary. This could include unused programs, toolbars, and any other irrelevant programs (i refer to them as junkware). To uninstall this kind of stuff, you can do this in the programs section in your Control Panel.

2: The most helpful part to helping your PC preform better is to disabling a lot of 'background' processes on your machine that you never even knew is running (damn windows). To do this, we must go into the windows 'system configuration' and uncheck a few boxes.

To get the system configuration, you must  click the start menu > click "Run" (or you can use the keyboard shortcut WinKey+R) and type in this command: msconfig

Once on the configuration window, navigate to the Startup tab.

What you will find is a list with a ton of items with checked boxes. Well i have news for you; anything checked on this list is EVERYTHING that is starting up at the SAME time when you turn your machine on (mind blown).

Ok now with that said, let us give our machine a little bit of preformance TLC (tender, love, and care).

First, keep in mind (make a list if you have to) what you really really want to start up when you start your machine, this could include things like Skype, Yahoo Messenger, any custom scripts (for more advanced users), or any other programs that you use (like DropBox in my case). These programs are ones you will locate on the list and LEAVE checked.

Before we go unchecking thing after the list, there ARE other things you will NEED to leave checked as well. This includes Antivirus programs, and windows gadgets or sidebar (in vista). Windows 7 is a little more forgiving on naming the "startup items", however, if you have Vista or XP, you may not have the luxury of a clear name, but rather what will be listed is the name of the exe file (in program files). One thing that could help you identify what the item is is by the manufacture name. For example, Symantec would be for Norton Antivirus, Mcaffe would be for McAffe Antivirus, Apple would be for iTunes.

Ok lets go ahead and click "disable all". now that all the boxes are unchecked, lets Recheck all of the necessary items (like your antivirus). NOTE: UPDATERS ARE NOT NECESSARY, just opening the program will trigger the updater anyways. OK, now lets REcheck all the items YOU want to start (like Skype, messengers, custom scripts, etc...).

After you are done modifying the list, click Apply and OK. You will need to restart your machine to allow this to take effect. When your machine has been restarted, a pop up will appear "your system configuration has been changed....." blah blah blah, all you need to do is check the box labeled "dont show this again" and click ok.

Now you are done... yay

FOR WINDOWS 8 and WINDOWS SERVER 2012 AND ABOVE

Damn Microsoft decided to change the location and method of how to to the above processes, but at least it is easier to get to. To find the above list, all you gotta do is go to task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and click on the "startup" tab.

Now just used the methods mentioned above for disabling processes.

And there you have it.... Your done

Hope i Helped.