How to Speed Up Windows 7 - Double Click to Clean Out Junk Files to Speed Up Windows 7

Wondering how to speed up Windows 7? You can actually do yourselves a favor by doing some DIY system maintenance. Not to worry, the measures discussed here do not require you to be a geek. They are pretty straight forward. Many times, by applying just half of the measures you will see noticeable results. Let's look at how to speed up Windows 7.

- Clean up junks in your hard disk.

The first thing you can look at is the temporary files that have been created by browsers and software programs that were left untouched and unnoticed. However, to look for them one by one and clear them will be too much hassle. For this task, you can engage the help of a free tool known as CCleaner. Just do a search on Google and you can find it easily.

- Turn off 7 features that you do not need.

When 7 is loaded, the operating system comes with all kinds of features that is enabled based on the assumptions or marketing reasons. These inevitably load your system with unnecessary computing overheads. Go to control panel and click on "Uninstall/Change a Program". On the task pane in the left, click on "Turn Windows features on or off". Go through the list and uncheck any feature that you want to disable. Hover your mouse over the feature to find out what it actually does. Part of knowing how to speed up Windows 7 is to know what you need and what you don't and that defers from user to user.

- How to speed up Windows 7 by eliminate spywares, viruses and Trojans.

Malicious codes contribute to most of the Windows slow downs and malfunctions. I like free tools so I will recommend them here. You can use Avast as your anti-virus, Zonealarm as your firewall software and Spybot as malware and spyware remover. All of these have 7 compatible version and I believe should be sufficient to ensure a 90% safe computing environment for home users.

- How to speed up Windows 7 by tweaking graphical features.

If you are not too crazy about vanity and aesthetics, you can turn off graphical features of 7 that will help you see immediate changes in the speed of response. Open your start menu, go to run, and type in 'systempropertiesperformance'. Go to the Visual Effects tab and uncheck 'Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing'. There other graphical settings you can manipulate there if you like.

- How to speed up Windows 7 boot time.

You can do so by doing away with the 7 welcome center which was designed to orientate new users of 7. Open your start menu, go to run, and type in 'regedit'. Navigate through HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run. Look for WindowsWelcomeCenter key, right click on it and select Delete. That should do it.

- Defragment

This is old school thought but still works. Defragging your hard drive still helps to boost system performance as long as we are still not on flash memory hard disk. Search for Defraggler on Google for this job. 7's defragmenter just doesn't do it.

- How to speed up Windows 7 through registry cleanup.

Overtime the Windows registry accumulates invalid entries of file pointers, device driver settings and program settings. These cause the operating system to slow down in boot up and operation. In some cases, it leads to errors popping up. The best way to tackle this is to use registry cleaners to cleanup the registry.

George Tho is an IT support specialist. Learn how to speed up Windows 7 with registry cleaners.