Make Your Opera Faster Than Before
For those Opera users who think it is a bit slow, here is a tricks to make it faster than before.
Just follow these steps:
1. First go to Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Network
2. Select Server name completion.
3. Now you have two options within it;
Try name completion
Look For local network machine
4. If you uncheck both of the above options, i.e.; Try name completion and Look for local network machine, Opera will stop cycling your CPU, trying to guess what you’re typing in the address bar.
5. Restart the browser after applying the settings. You’ll see the speed difference.
Enjoy a faster Opera experience :)
[via BizznTech]
Labels: Opera, Performance Tweaks
Small Yet Awesome Utilities To Make Your System Faster
Download CachemanXP 1.1.2.2, GetDiz 3 and StartEd from:
http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_cha
1. CachemanXP
This is a must have. A very necessary tool for gamers and graphics professionals. Optimises your windows Ram cache and make everything more faster and responsive. It also recovers memory occupied by previous programs. CachemanXP is a system service designed to improve the performance of your computer by optimizing several caches, auto-recovering RAM and fine tuning a number of system settings. Auto-Optimization makes it suitable for novice and intermediate users yet it is also powerful and versatile enough for computer experts.
Backups of settings ensure that all user modifications can be reversed with a single click. Due to the system service nature, it uses minimal resources and virtually no CPU time.
2. GetDiz
Go to Options -->Setfont and select ComicSans/ 14 regular,/ yellow color and go to choose color and select Black color. Apply and Exit. Now, it becomes a very healthy replacement for default windows notepad. It can do everything notepad does and has more features. So easy to read and it will open ur .diz/.nfo/.txt files from downloaded torrents without fuss.
It also displays ASCII art correctly which is an added bonus :)
3. StartEd
Is is what its name says. Handy because you will never again open msconfig from run to do startup changes. You can optimize your startup very easily from this software. Remove unnecessary and extra startup entires you don't need. But remember don't remove any entries whose function you don't know, because this may cause your system to become unstable.
Enjoy a faster system :)
Labels: Performance Tweaks, Utilities
Defrag Multiple Hard Drives At Once In Windows XP
But a simple batch file trick can get over this problem and defragment all of the drives, one after the other.
The disk defrag utility in Windows XP can be called from the command line with the following syntax:
Windows Disk Defragmenter
Copyright (c) 2001 Microsoft Corp. and Executive Software International, Inc.
Usage:
defrag[-a] [-f] [-v] [-?]
volume drive letter or mount point (d: or d:volmountpoint)
-a Analyze only
-f Force defragmentation even if free space is low
-v Verbose output
-? Display this help text
To make Windows defrag all the drive at once we need to create file named defrag.bat [you can have any name, even yours :) ] . Now for each hard drive, assign a line to the batch file. For instance, if we want to defragment drives C: , D: , F: and G: we will add these three lines:
defrag c: -f
defrag d: -f
defrag f: -f
defrag g: -f
Now to defrag at once, just either double-click on the batch file or start it from the command line.
Source - Thinktechno.com
Labels: Performance Tweaks, Windows XP
Speed Up SATA Hard Drives & USB Drives In Windows Vista
First you need to go to the Device Manager which you can go directly by just typing device in the start menu search box or just type in devmgmt.msc in command line.
Now open the Disk drives section and right click on your hard drive. Now click on the Policies tab and you’ll find this dialog box:
Now click the checkbox for Enable advanced performance, and you are done.
Write caching isn’t enabled by default as removing devices directly without using the “Safely remove removable device”may lose your data, so be cautious when enabling this options. But enabling this option also when speeding up performance significantly when writing to the disk.
Now select the external drive and double click it to open up the properties screen. Then
just change the setting to “Optimize for performance” and hit OK to continue. You’ll have to reboot for all the settings to take effect. Next time you boot into Windows Vista you’ll see faster bootup times and better disk writing performance.
[Source - Thinktechno.com]
Labels: Performance Tweaks, Vista
Clean Your Junk With PC Decrapifier
License Type: FreeOperating Systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista
File Size: 518KB
Author: PC DeCrapifier
Download - Here
You always want your brand new PC to be clean and junk proof but over some time you'll find it full of crap software installed for no reason other than that the PC maker gets paid to put it there. These extra (waste) software slow down your PC startup and its day to day operation.
The free PC Decrapifier removes dozens of these softwares automatically. Using this program is very simple. Just run it, and it does its cleaning work automatically. Don't expect it to completely clean your PC, because it removes only a specific set of softwares and trialware programs namely, those that are specifically put on new PCs, such as QuickBooks Trial, Wild Tangent Games, Dell URL Assistant, and many more. For a complete list of softwares it removes, go to here.
Note: When using this program, it's good to first create a restore point. Just in case it removes something that you wanted to keep.
Labels: Downloads, Performance Tweaks, Software Reviews
Set Process Priority To Speed Up Specific Processes
Follow these steps:
1. Press CTRL-SHIFT-ESC
2. It will open Windows Task Manager showing current running processes.
3. Now right click on any one of the active processes (whichever you want to speed up), the last option will be of setting the priority. It will have the following options:
- Realtime
- High
- AboveNormal
- Normal
- BelowNormal
- Low
You can also set the priority of some programs low so that they don't consume much of your system's resources. Like for example, if you are downloading something using uTorrent, then you can set its priority low, so that there's ample resources left for other programs to work smoothly.
So just keep trying it with different programs and you will notice the difference.
Hope you liked this trick. Send in your comments to support me :)
Labels: Performance Tweaks
Speed Up Your Shut Down In Windows XP
The trick is in two parts. Follow both of them for best results.
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control
3. Click on the "Control" Folder.
4. Select "WaitToKillServiceTimeout".
5. Right click on it, select modify and set it a value lower than 2000 (the lesser the faster, but remember don't set it less than 100 to be on the safer side).
1. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices.
2. Click on the Sounds tab, then under program events and windows menu find and select the "Exit Windows" option.
3. Now there will be several sounds to choose from. Choose "(None)" and then click on Apply and then OK.
Yippee!! it's done now. You will see some improvement when shutting down your system. :)
Labels: Performance Tweaks, Windows XP
Speed Up Vista
Here are few techniques that can help speed up your Vista system in minutes ..
1. Disable the Indexing Service ..
Indexing services in Windows Vista indexes all the files and folders for faster access. It basically makes search function faster. By default all files are indexed, but you probably won’t need that. It is recommended that you should disable the indexing service on all the items other than the start menu. To speed up Vista, follow these steps:
* Select Start and type "index options", without quotations
* After the Indexing Options are loaded, click the Modify button.
* Then click Show all Locations
* A list of locations will be displayed in the form of a tree. Uncheck those folders which you do not want to be indexed. You can also use the Advanced button to specify file types to be indexed, but this part is optional.
* Click OK button to finalize.
2. Enable advanced write caching ..
Vista comes with built-in support for SATA (Serial ATA) hard drives. By default Vista does not enable write caching. To improve your data retrieval speed you must enable the write caching. Just follow these steps:
* Go to the hard drive properties
* Select the Policies tab
* Select the radio button labeled Optimize for performance.
* Check the boxes titled “Enable write caching on the disk” and “Enable Advance Performance”
* Click OK button to finish.
3. Speed up Start Menu Search ..
The good old MSCONFIG option is available in Vista as well. Lots of crappy programs load at boot time which consume large amount of memory and processor. To tweak follow these steps:
* Go to Start>Run or press Windows + R
* Type “msconfig” and click OK
* The System Configuration dialogue box will be displayed, select the Startup
* You will see list of checkboxes, most of them will be checked. Uncheck those ones which are not needed. More unchecked boxes will lead to better performance.
* Click OK button to finish this tweaking step.
4. Stop extra services ..
There are lots of services that are automatically started by default in Vista. Many such services are of no use for the user. There are services that get automatically added to the list when you install different third party software. They consume lots of RAM and processor. To speed up just follow these steps:
* Go to Start>Run and type “msconfig” without quotations.
* System Configuration window will be displayed.
* Go to the Services tab (middle one)
* To be on the safe side check the box “Hide all Microsoft Services”
* Now you will have a reduced version of the list, select ones that you feel are unnecessary.
* Press OK to finish.
There are some Windows Vista’s services that you can disable without any glitch:
* Windows Error Reporting
* Tablet PC Input Service ( don’t disable if you are using a tablet PC)
* Remote Registry
* Offline Files
* IKE and AuthIP IP Keying Modules
* Distributed Link Tracking Client
* Computer Browser
5. Disable Network Printer Search ..
Disabling network printer search may greatly improve Vista’s performance. When you browse through folders Vista is always looking for network printers. This search ends up in consuming lots of resources. To speed up performance just follow these steps:
* While you are in the explorer (My Computer), go to the Tools menu
* Select Folder options
* Go to the View tab
* Uncheck the box named “Automatically search for network printers”
After completing this step you would certainly feel the difference.
6. Use ReadyBoost ..
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@shish {Cool Wizard}
Labels: Performance Tweaks, Vista