Monday 22 October 2012

Reduce appearance to improve performance

If your computer is running slow because of a limited amount of RAM/Memory you can give yourself a slight performance bump by scaling back or removing some of the "eye candy" that comes with your operating system (especially Windows Vista and 7) since these tend to hog system resources.

Here how:
  1. Click on Start
  2. Right mouse click on Computer or My Computer
  3. Select Properties
  4. Select "Advanced system settings
  5. Select the "Advanced" tab
  6. Under Performance click on Settings
  7. Select "Adjust for best performance"
  8. Click Ok
  9. Now reboot your system - remember the user interface WILL NOT look as nice, BUT the computer should be a bit more responsive/faster.

4 comments:

  1. similar to the steps you provided, you can take memory from the hard drive and put it as RAM(am i right)?

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    1. Virtual memory it is called, but using the readyboost feature might make more sense in this regards

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  2. you said that you got your hp touch pad from 1GHZ to 1.9GHZ then to 1.5GHZ when you rooted it. how did you do that and can it be done on a laptop or decktop computer(did you overclock it or something like that).

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    1. The Touchpad was shipped with the CPU clocked at 1.2Ghz not 1Ghz and yes, you can overclock a laptop/desktop computer's CPU. You can check out the link below for more info on overclocking.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overclocking

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