This tutorial will show you
how to speed up Windows 8.
Your operating system may take more time at the time of
start up because it has too much load of processes at the time of startup, at the time of
copying a file your operating system may slow down because of unavailable
buffer memory, when you are gaming you may suffer lag because of running of several
unwanted application in the background. So, if you want to speed up your
system’s performance you have to reduce the
number of processes which get launched at the time of
startup, clear your
temporary memory files and close the
unwanted applications running in the background.
These are the basic visible reasons for system slow down, there are many
more reasons such as pre-set values of attributes in the
Registry, etc.
Methods to speed up Windows 8
Disable unwanted startup programs :
1. Open the task
manager, press
Window + X buttons and click on Task Manager.
2. Go to
startup tab, disable the applications which are unwanted at the time of startup. In my case Bittorrent, Adobe
Updater, FixMyRegistry.exe are unwanted so I have disabled them.
3. Click
OK.
Clean up buffer memory and unnecessary temporary files :
1. Open the
Run window by pressing
Window + R buttons, type
“%temp%” and press
Enter
2. Select all the
files and delete them all.
3. Similarly open
Run window again, type
“temp” and press
Enter.
4. Delete all the files.
5. Again open the
Run window and type
“prefetch” and press
Enter.
6. Delete all the files.
7. Now, Open
My Computer, right-click on your drive with the operating system (e.g C:\) and click on
Properties,
over there you will find an option
Disk Cleanup, click it and press
OK when a new window appears.
Now, you have successfully cleaned the buffer memory of your system.
Reduce runtime services :
Runtime
1. Open Run window by pressing
Window + R buttons, type
“msconfig” and press
enter.
2. Now, go to
Services tab, first click on the
“Hide all Microsoft Services” and then deselect the services which are of no use to use at runtime and press
OK.
Registry tweeks :
1. Open the
Run window by pressing
Window + R buttons, type
“regedit” and press
enter.
2. Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse. Double click on
MouseHoverTime, in the Edit String window change the value from
50 to 100.
3. Again navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Current Control Set\Control. Double click on
WaitToKillServiceTimeout and change the value in the Edit String window to something near
1000 and press
Enter.
If you have completed all these steps successfully then your computer is clean and will work smoothly now
