More PC Performance Improvement Tips
Following on from an earlier post on how to improve your PC’s performace, here are some slightly more advanced techniques to try.
These techniques require you to “tinker” with your computer settings or review settings / programs to determine if they should be running or not…..
1. What Taps Your PCs resources?
Although you can check which programs you are running (and kill them if necessary) on your PC using CTRL ALT DEL and clicking on Task Manager, this often has no effect. If there is something that is sapping your PCs RAM, you want as much detail as possible. FileMon provides detailed reporting and recording of what each application is doing. This may help when trying to determine what causes a PC to lock up.
2. CleanUp after yourself
One of the big things that slow down your PC is software that your downloaded and installed, but don’t use. Be ruthless and go to Add/Remove Programs to get rid of any programs you don’t use.
3.Learn to Prioritise
You can tweak some settings for your PC by going to Control Panel and opening the System icon. Under the Advanced tab, click Settings to display the options for appearance and virtual memory.
Visual Effects can be changed to prioritise performance over appearance, while the Advanced Tab allows Windows to be modified os that it prioritises programs, as well as to set a higher limit for virtual memory. This can be useful for programs that need to swap a lot of data in and out of RAM.
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