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1.
Right click the recycle bin and choose properties.
Change the amount of space dedicated to trash only. Multiple gigs of just trash seems awfully wasteful to me, so I keep it
at 50MB for each drive.
THEN
At the bottom uncheck "Display Delete Confirmation Dialog"
No more
"Are you sure your want to delete?" messages will bug you
2.
Delete all icons you never use. Quicktime
and Adobe always give you an icon you may never directly click on. Remember, if the icon has a little arrow next to it that
means it's a shortcut and CAN be deleted. You don't have to delete it, but you can.
3.
Control
Panel – Programs – Turn Windows Features on or off. Then uncheck:
- Tablet PC Components
- Remote Differential Compression
Click the plus sign next to Games to expand it. Disable things you will never
use anyway. I will never want to play Solitaire or Hearts or any other card game, so I uncheck them all.
Under the Print and document services, you can disable items that you may
also never use. My Netbook will never have a printer connected to it, so I don’t need any of these services.
When you are done select OK
Restart later
4.
Right click the desktop and choose Personalize
At the bottom click “Window Color”
– at the bottom, again, choose Advanced Appearance settings
Select the drop down arrow next to item and select
“Border Padding”. Change this number from 4 to Zero
Next, change Icon spacing to 36 in the Vertical and
Horizontal option. This will cut the space between icons and give you a little more desktop space to work with.
Lastly,
select Icon and click the Bold button
Click OK to apply and close this box.
5.
Start button - Run - type "msconfig" without quotes - select the Startup tab - Uncheck all
unneeded items - Click Apply
THEN
Under the Services tab, at the bottom check “Hide all Microsoft
Services”. Now select everything that doesn’t need to be running at startup such as QuickTime, Office and Windows
Media Player.
THEN
Click the Boot tab – Change the Timeout from 30 seconds to 3 seconds. You can
even disable the GUI (Graphic User Interface) from here. That would get rid of the scroll bar at startup or the animation
that show W7 is loading. I didn't notice a speed improvement here, just a longer black screen before the desktop. I imagine
if you have very little RAM
this would help you.
THEN
Select Advanced Options - Put a check in the
box 'Number of Processors' - Select the pull down menu and choose the number of cores onboard (2 for dual core, 4 for Quad
core)
Hit OK twice and restart later.
6.
Right
Click the Windows 7 Start Button
Select properties - Under Privacy, uncheck both boxes - click OK
7.
Right Click 'Computer' - choose Properties - On left side choose Advanced System Settings
The Advanced Tab will be displayed, under Performance choose Settings
- Under the Visual
Effects Tab choose 'Best Performance' – Then select the following
This will keep those things that make Windows 7 pretty, but still squeeze
a few milliseconds out of it. You can also check Transparent glass, but it annoys me in some instances.
Click Apply.
THEN
Click
the Advanced Tab - Under Virtual Memory click 'Change' - Uncheck 'Automatically manage....' - Click Custom Size - In the Initial
Size block enter the amount of RAM actually present (2GB = 2048) - In the Maximum Size block enter double of the first
amount (4GB = 4096) - Click 'Set', then OK
Restart later
8.
Click on the Windows Start button and type "regedit" without the quotes into the 'Search programs
and files' box. Click on the expandable arrow next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
Then, expand the Control Panel folder too, and finally click directly
on the 'Desktop' folder.
In the right pane, look for and double click 'MenuShowDelay'.
Change the value from whatever it is to 200. This figure represents the milliseconds of delay between your click and a menu's
display.
Close the screen.
9.
Click the start menu, then click on your
name at the top right of the opened menu to open your personal folder. On the left side choose Libraries. Open the
Pictures, Music, and Videos separately and delete all the samples
10.
Again, in the Start Menu go to 'Computer',
and right click your hard drive (Usually C:). Select Properties. Uncheck both boxes at the bottom for indexing and
hard drive compression.
When asked, apply settings to the drive only and NOT files and folders
You can finally Restart
11.
Now that you've restarted your system.
Install Advanced System Care (It's FREE) and run it to clean up all the remaining junk. All you have to
do is click the blue "CARE" button once and it will find all problems and clean up everything
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