Disable Welcome Center
Welcome Centre has been designed to help beginners but is very annoying.
Disabling method is as under:-
- Disabling Method
- Open Redistory Editory. Go to Start » Run » REGEDIT and press enter.
- Navigate through HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft Windows\CurrentVersion
- Right click on the WindowsWelcomeCenter in the left pane key and select
Delete.
Speed up Start Menu Search
When you enters text in the search box panel on the START, Windows
automatically searches the file index as well. It is OK if your file index is
small, but as the time passes and the INDEX is very large, the system would
behave slow. Prevent Start Menu Searches from searching the File index adopt the
following method:
Method
- Open Registry Editor.
- Navigate through HKEY_CURRENT_USER » Software » Microsoft » Windows » Current
Version » Explorer » Advanced. - Find and right click on Start_SearchFiles and select Modify.
- Set the Value to 0.
Restart the Explorer.exe process or just reboot your computer.
Uninstall / Turn off unneeded features
There are many new un-needed features that can slow down your computer and take
up more storage space.
- Click on the Start Button and select Control Panel.
- Under Programs click Uninstall a program
- On the side menu, click on Turn Windows features on or off
- Scroll through the list as shown below and remove the check from any
feature you do not want installed. - Click OK when you are finished making your changes. The features will
now be uninstalled.
Disable Vista Graphics
Although the Vista has most of its enhancements in Graphics but they might take huge CPU and RAM. You can disable it to free resources. But disabling this feature might result in taking away all the Vista's beauty.
- Right click on desktop go to personalize.
- Now go to color and appearance settings
- Then go to classic windows appearance settings and select windows classic or windows standard display settings.
Disable Superfetch Service for low memory systems
This service loads the most frequently used programs into the memory. If you have 2-4GB of RAM then leave this service on because it is actually beneficial. Otherwise you can disable this service with the following method:-
Disabling method
- Go to Start » Run » type SERVICES.MSC and press enter key.
- find SUPERFETCH service
- Right click and click PROPERTIES
- On startup type select MANUAL
- Stop the service if it is running.
