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[mike25]

Is your Windows 7 slow?
Wondering how to speed up Windows 7?
So let me present you with this Guide To Speed Up Windows 7. I assure you that after following this guide you will really get the performance gain.

(1) Turn off the aero theme in Windows 7

Disabling the aero theme alone in Windows 7 will really speed things up

Rt Click on your Desktop -->Select Personalize--> click the Window Color Tab.
Uncheck the Box " Enable Transparency " --> click on Open classic appearance properties -->Apply a Standard or Basic theme. The Standard Windows 7 theme is more preferred.


(2) Turn off the Unwanted Services to Speed up Windows 7

You can use a tool called GameBooster to turn off all unwanted services. You can temporarily disable all services (that are not needed) while you play. You can also even modify the services list and can add more services to get even better performance.

To add any other services, click on OptionsàEdit Service List. Add any services using RemoteRegistry=1
Computer Browser (Browser=1)
Protected Storage (ProtectedStorage=1)
Remote Registry (RemoteRegistry=1)
Secondary Logon (seclogon=1)
Security Center (wscsvc=1)
Themes (Themes=1)
Windows Errors Reporting Service (WerSvc=1)
Windows Media Center Service Launcher (ehstart=1)
Windows Search (WSearch=1) Windows Time (W32Time=1)

(3) Speed Up Windows 7 Using ReadyBoost

ReadyBoost can speed up your PC by using storage space on most flash drive or pendrive or USB drive. It helps you to use your USB drive as Ram by improving the performance and speed of windows 7.
(1) Plug in your USB or Pendrive that is ready boost compatible
(2) My Computer --> Right-click the on USB Drive/Pendrive-->select Ready Boost tab -> tick the checkbox “Use this device”
You can configure how much space on your USB drive to be used as Ram.

(4) Crystal DiskMark to speed up Windows 7

Crystal DiskMark is an excellent tool in measuring the read/write speeds of the SD cards, hard disk drives and any other disk for various sizes. You can choose the drive to test, the number of test and the size of the data to test, which can be 50MB, 100MB, 500MB and 1000MB.

(5) Speed Up Windows 7 Boot

Select RUN option from the start menu.
Now type msconfig --> Click on the Boot tab.
Here you will see a box called Time out.
If you are using a single operating system then you can set the value to 0.
But if you have more than one operating system installed then set it to 3 or more (which ever is convenient).

(6) Speed up Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Preview

1. Click on Start-->run-->Type regedit
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse
3. Double-click on “MouseHoverTime” and set the value to 100 or lower


(7) Speed Up Windows 7 using Tweaking Tools

Enhance MySe7en
Enhance MySe7en is a great GUI that offers tools that take care of the registry, disk space installed program, Hard disk drive temprature and all other things related to system’s health.

Ultimate Windows Tweaker
It makes your computer faster, more stable, and more secure with just a few mouse clicks.

Windows 7 Manager
Windows 7 Manager is a system utility that offers many options to speed up your computer.

XdN Tweaker
XdN Tweaker helps you to improve the performance of your system. – if you want to customize a few settings only this is a good option.

[luke]

These are really very helpful tips to boost Windows 7 speed and performance.
I will be using some of them today. Thanks for making these tips available.

[melvin]

You can also disable UAC feature to speed up your computer.

[IBM]

The best way to speed up windows 7 is to disable any unused services that we do not require in our daily use by pressing Windows key + R and then typing in Services.msc from there for example I always disable print spooler as I have no printer installed, there are lots of services you can safely disable you just have to read or lookup what each does.

[kenneth]

I believe the most effective means to speed up Windows 7 is to clean the Windows registry because there is no internal cleaning tool to clear out errors and corrupt files from the registry. This results to significant congestion that will slow down Windows 7 significantly.

[adelbert]

Is the performance boost notable?

[mike25]

I think it is a good choice for systems with less RAM. In case of more than 1GB RAM then it will be only notable if you run some resource-hungry programs.

[mike25]

This may be due to AVG firewall that block the slui.exe and therefore you won’t be able to activate Windows 7. To disable the firewall process you must have admin privileges.
Here is how to fix activation problem:
(1)Start-->Run-->enter cmd into search box--> Do not just press enter. Hold STRG + Shift and press Enter! That is the shortcut to run this as an admin
(2)Enter the following command to enable hidden admin account
net user administrator /active:yes
(3)Switch users
Start-->shut down--> switch users and you will see the admin account!
Click on the admin icon and now you can turn off your firewall that blocked the slui.exe

(4) Open task-manager. --> services --> navigate to the AVG firewall service --> right-click -> turn it off.
(5)Now click on start-->cmd-->enter slui.exe and you are done

[JIT]

I also had the same problem and McAfee was blocking it on my PC. I disabled firewall and now everything works fine. Good guide