How To improve your System Performance

Step 1: Disk Cleanup

1.Open My Computer
2.Right Click on any of the drives C: ,D: ,E:, F:
3.Click on Properties, a new window will be opened as shown below

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4. It will be in General tab by default
5. Click on Disk Cleanup button to clean up your disk space

Step 2: Defragment Hard Drives

1.Open My Computer
2.Right Click on any of the drives C: ,D: ,E:, F:
3.Click on Properties, a new window will be opened

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4.Select Tools tab and click on Defragment Now
5.Apply Steps 1-4 on all drives

Step 3: Removing Old Restore Points

1.Click on Start Menu
2.Right Click on My Computer
3.Select System Protection on Tasks panel
4.Uncheck all the drives and when you uncheck C: drive it will prompt a message box asking you “Are you sure to Turn Off System Restore ?” as shown below in the figure

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5.Click on Turn System Restore Off button
6.If you want the System Restore to be ON then repeat the steps 1-3 and check the boxes on the drives for which you want to restore.

Step 4: Clearing your Internet History Daily

This needs to be done daily because when you browse a webpage it will load the cookies and it will store in the cache memory of system drive. This is done so that when you again browse a page, browser doesn’t need to load the cookies from the web instead it loads it from your cache in order to have fast access. If you have faster internet connection speed then you need to follow these steps

1.Open Control Panel
2.Select Network and Internet
3.Select Internet Options a new window will be opened as shown below

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4.Click on Delete button to delete browsing history, cookies, temporary files and saved passwords

Step 5: Removing unwanted Start Up services

1.Go to Run and Type “msconfig” without quotes a new window will be opened and select Startup tab as shown below

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2.Uncheck all the checked items which you don’t want as your start up services
3.Click OK and will ask you to restart the system.

Step6: Cleaning up the cache from time to time

1.Go to Run
2.Type “prefetch” without quotes
3.Select all the items and delete them
4.Repeat this step6 whenever you feel that is system is slow, you can notice the difference in systems performance

After implementing step1- step6 Restart your system to apply the changes you have made to improve your system performance.

These are the six basic steps in improve system performance if you have any new tricks in improving system performance then feel free to comment us.