appointments, and we love our computers to be as quick as
digitally possible. Unfortunately, when a lot of PCs are past
their prime, and time has allowed stuff to buildup in every
crevice, your computer doesn't seem to be as fast anymore, at
least not as fast as the first day you booted it up. Rather
than pulling out some greens for more memory and a faster hard
drive, and certainly before buying a new computer, try these
performance enhancing tips and tweaks to see if you can't
squeeze more juice out of your box.
Disable the Monitors
No, this doesn't mean turning off your monitor--your display--but
turning off the Windows performance monitors and counters that
toil behind the scenes. You probably didn't even know that
they were there. These services constantly poll and collect
and collate data from the operating system, data that can be
displayed as information in the performance monitor application
found in the administrative panel. Unless you are a system
administrator that needs this data, there's little point in
letting these services hog up your system's resources, so turn
them off.
The disk monitor is an example of a service that's not
necessaryto have running in the background. Go to the Start menu
and open the Run box. Type in "cmd", and at the command prompt,
input the command "diskperf -N".
The Windows Indexing service is employed to make file searches
faster. It does this by populating an index file with data
pertaining to your files. While this may improve your file
search speed, this service can hinder your system's overall
performance. If you don't do a lot of file searches, or if you
can live without the added performance that the indexing
services affords you, then turn it off. Navigate to the
Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Windows Components, and
turn off Indexing Service.
Many users enjoy the eye-candy and little animations that
Windows uses to make your computing experience more pleasing.
If all you want to do is get your work done, or don't care
about the extra graphical bouillon cubes that add flavor, such
as menus sliding in and out and mouse shadow effects, these can
be easily turned off, which in turn may give your PC a slight
performance boost. Right click on My Computer and select
Properties; select the Advanced tab. In the Performance dialog
window, select Adjust for best performance. You may also want
to experiment with mixing and matching the visual effects
options.
Drive DMA
To increase your drives' performance--hard drives, DVD drives,
etc.--make sure Windows is using DMA (direct memory access)
instead of the slower PIO transfer mode. Sometimes Windows
will select PIO as the default setting for your drives, so it's
worth your while to check and make sure you have DMA set for
optimal performance. Right click on My Computer and choose
Properties; next, click on the Hardware tab and Device Manager.
Now drop down the IDE ATA\ATAPI controllers and select primary
IDE channel and hit the Properties button. At the Advances
settings tab, make sure that the DMA transfer mode is set.
Check the secondary IDE channel after the primary one.
Mouse Performance
If you're old school and still using a PS/2 mouse, then you can
get a little more juice out of it with this easy tweak, giving
you more precise control. Right click My Computer and go to
Properties. Next, from the Hardware tab and Device Manager,
locate your PS/2 mouse and choose Properties. From the
Advances Settings tab, make the sample rate 200 to give your
mouse smoother control.
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