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Well I have been meaning to write this for a while now but time itself isn’t much of a friend to me. Since I am free today, I thought of sharing some tweaking tips that is safe to fine tune your pc’s performance. So run down the following list to see if you have ever encountered such situation and decide if you really need this tweaking.

-Slow pc booting up?
-Slow pc shutting down?
-Slow loading programs?
-Under powered pc?
-Low memory?

If you answered yes to all, you are indeed in the right place buddy. So let’s get down and dirty with the basic tunings.

Disk Cleanup
First off, you need to do a disk cleanup. This tool removes temporary internet files, downloaded program files, empties the recycle bin, windows temporary files, optional windows component and redundant files. Thankfully, Microsoft are kind enough to have include “Disk CleanUp” in their platform

. So make use of it. You can launch the program by going to Start-->All Programs-->Accessories-->System Tools-->Disk Cleanup.

Disk Defragmentation
Next in line would be to do a Disk Defragmentation. Again, this function is provided by Microsoft for our basic needs in hard disk defragmentation but personally, I use Diskeeper Lite (It is a freeware, so google it ). Disk Defragmenter consolidates fragmented files and folders on your computer's hard disk, so that each occupies a single, contiguous space on the volume As a result, your system can gain access to your files and folders and save new ones more efficiently. You can launch the program by going to Start-->All Programs-->Accessories-->System Tools-->Disk Defragment.

Antivirus Protection
It is advisable to have a good antivirus software to protect our computers from virus, trojan and also malwares. I can suggest to use Kaspersky, Avira, ESET Nod32 or even Bitdefender. Viruses can be a pest when it slows down our pc performance.

So run a standard scan once a week.

So the above steps should be like a bible to us. Do it once a week for better performance. It can be roughly said that the “easy” part is done, let’s move on to the next steps. Alright guys, grab your seat and get a safety helmet cause this is where it really gets rough

System Advance Performance
You can disable a few functions that are not necessary to operate your computer. By disabling these functions, you gain a few good pounds of computer performance. So how to do it? Right click on your My Computer and select properties. In Windows XP, it should bring you straight to System Properties but in Vista/7, you will need to do an extra step by clicking on Advance System Setting on your top left panel. Once the System Properties pops up, click on the Advance tab and click on Settings under the Performance option and use the similar settings as the below picture.

Virtual Memory
Within the same box, click on Advanced tab and Change under the Virtual Memory option. Virtual Memory is a memory management scheme that stores and retrieve data from secondary storage to use in main memory. To put simple, it is called paging file. To play it safe, click custom and follow the recommendation specified below the same box.

RAMDisk
To understand this is to first understand the basic function of a RAM. It is like a short term memory for the cpu. It takes bits and pieces of information and holds them till the cpu requires them and then dumps them when your restart or shutdown. So what I am about to show you is how to make your RAM work as your hard disk. It improves pc performance dramatically. To do this, you must first download a RAMDisk driver. I prefer to use Dataram RAMDisk. It is free if you configure below 4Gb

. Download and install and follow below settings.

Your allocation of RAM to be used as RAMDisk should not exceed the basic need for your pc. Check your available RAM space and use 80-90% of it.

Changing Directory After Installation of RAMDisk
Well, we are about done here only leaving a final step. To use the RAMDisk efficiently, you can change your TEMP folder and Internet Temporary Files to the RAMDisk location on your pc. Go back to the System Properties and click on the advance tab and then Environment Variables. Scroll down the System Variables and change the TEMP and TMP to your RAMDisk location. For Internet Explorer, go to the Internet Options and click on the Settings under the Browsing History option. Change the current location to your RAMDisk location and increase the Disk Space to Use to 250Mb. With these changes, you can experience a great change in your pc performance and also your internet speed.

Note: Your TEMP and Internet Temporary Files will be deleted upon restarts or shutdown as your RAM is a volatile storage. This is good as your pc constantly regenerates the files but if you want to store the data permanently, follow the following settings.

So that is about it. If you follow closely to the steps, you will notice the difference in your pc performance. I hope that you enjoy reading and hopefully it works to your benefit. Feel free to drop in a line if your encounter some setbacks or have any questions or doubt in mind.

Cheers

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GOOD INFO my friend
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quote originally posted by sioux:

GOOD INFO my friend
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The fun and beauty of knowledge is meant to be shared... We are never too young or old to learn something new

Thanx for your comment

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Let me share my experience with RAMDisk

I run Firefox, 100% on RAMDisk, not just the cache, so it run faster.

I do it this way:

Install Dataram RAMDisk
Open Task Manager, go to Performance tab, see how much free RAM, exit Task Manager
Open RAMDisk Configuration Utility, Set Disk Size to 50% of free RAM, Choose unformatted option
Go to Load and Save tab, Choose Load Disk Image at Startup, Choose Save disk Image on Shutdown
Start RAMDisk, exit Configuration Utility
Open Windows Disk Management, format the RAMDisk to NTFS, give drive letter and name, exit Disk Management
Now enter the RAMDisk drive, create three new folder, rename new folder 1 to AppData_Local_Mozilla_Firefox,

rename new folder 2 to AppData_Roaming_Mozilla, rename new folder 3 to ProgramFiles_MozillaFirefox

Go to Windows drive's Program Files\Mozilla Firefox, select all, cut, paste in ProgramFiles_MozillaFirefox folder on RAMDisk

Go to User\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox, select all, cut, paste in AppData_Local_Mozilla_Firefox folder on RAMDisk

Go to User\YourUsername\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla, select all, cut, paste in AppData_Roaming_Mozilla folder on RAMDisk.

Now that the original folder empty, junction it to the new destination using Junction Link Magic software, download and install it first
Run Junction Link Magic, create a new junction point. The Junction Point (host folder) is the empty original folder and the Destination (target folder) is the respective folder on RAMDisk where all the cutted data from the original one pasted.

Do the same trick for any other application with high I/O like databases, audio and video editing, CAD programs, Software compilers, CD duplication, Games and others and you should notice extreme speed up. At the same time it also extend the harddisk/SSD lifetime because high I/O applications moved to RAMDisk now use RAM to operate not the harddisk/SSD anymore, and RAM will never wear out, but of course you must have respectable amount of RAM for big size application, and you should note, the bigger the RAMDisk image, the longer it takes to load and save at startup and shutdown, but in the end it is a reasonable price for SPEED that BLAZINGLY FAST. I recommend all Bros to give it a try.

Note: I also have changed the user TEMP and system TEMP to my RAMDisk like bro avalanche told and now it faster to install applications since applications installer use TEMP folder while installing and some application use it while operating as well.

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Senior Member Posts: 618 Joined: 27 May 11 Tipsters Championship: Player has not started	I think i saw this in yahoo Totally the same I feels that I am Mad, Do u feels so too?
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quote originally posted by I.Am.Mad:

I think i saw this in yahoo
Totally the same

lol... the basics would roughly be the same... What you thought that I'm Einstein who is coming out with his relativity theory for the first time ???

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quote originally posted by avalanche7677:

lol... the basics would roughly be the same... What you thought that I'm Einstein who is coming out with his relativity theory for the first time ???

I mean same as in word by word

I feels that I am Mad, Do u feels so too?

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I mean same as in word by word

lol... I would love to stay and play with you but I have better things to do

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quote originally posted by I.Am.Mad:

I think i saw this in yahoo
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Does it matters?

We are not Bill Gates

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quote originally posted by AP:

Does it matters?

We are not Bill Gates

I'm darn bad at these sort of things. Thanks for the nice info TS, have a great weekday

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other suggestions:

a. get a faster processor
b. get faster ram/more ram
c. get a SSD instead of hard disk
d. get advance system optimizer: http://www.systweak.com/aso/

options (a) to (d) involve lots of money but effective

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Gold Member Posts: 3917 Liked By: 3029 Joined: 26 Sep 06 Followers: 6 Tipsters Championship: AB$: -920,000 Ranked: #2872	After reading thru' this thread, I am indeed sad that most of our members worshipped ms windows as if there are no other os that will perform better, indeed much better and at no cost, yes free of charge! I am not here to disparage ms, far from it. But its os is continually upgraded from its original os using using a command prompt to win32, win98, win2000, win2002, winXP, winVISTA, and now windows7.(apologise if the sequence is incorrect.) What is new? It is charging more and more for its upgrades; and drinking more of the RAM than can be installed into our PC! We pay for the upgrades and for buying endless gigs of ram! Can we honestly say that ms os is catering to the computing public or making huge profits for itself? Ask Bill Gates! However, this post is in my personal capacity as an ordinary user of the pc, nothing more, nothing less. And I would like to remind readers that if there is one user that's not happy with ms windows, that's me! But dont sue me yet! I am now using XP pro.! Ironic, isn't it? That's after thumbing down ms.! I have 3 pcs. now using this XP with 3G RAM so there is no problem with its performance. Another PC (a gift from Singtel from signing up a 2 year contract, an ACER mini desktop with only 512MB RAM, Vista Home Basic.) which initially performed normally is now like the slowest tortoise; click this and the pointer will revolves endlessly, yes endlessly! It will take forever to go to where you want to go. I have another laptop (that's not in the story). My point is that I installed a copy of the ubuntu ver 10.10 which I managed to borrow from a friend to this gift pc ACER. Its performance? I can safely say it's much better than the one I am using now, which is AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+, 2.21GHz, 2.96GB RAM. How to get this os ubuntu? just go to ubuntu dot com and request a free cd which will take about three weeks to reach you. Alternately you can burn a copy of its latest ubuntu os from its website and instal it yourself. It's absolutely free! I learned that there are about tens of millions of users in China using this os. Just for your info. Please take care, will you?
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