Today I'm just going to be showing you a couple of ways to
increase the performance of your PC or maintain the performance of your
PC this video was intended for windows seven users and also if you've had your
pc for six months to a year or older
so I'm just going to be shown you couple ways to maintain the performance
first thing the is windows seven comes with something called ready
boost so if you have an extra flash drive or jump drive
you can actually use that as virtual memory to increase the performance.
I have here already a flash drive plugged in
I highly recommend renaming it to ready boost that way
you know not to use it for storage
keep in mind if you are using it for ready boost
it's best to dedicate it
and not use it anymore
so what i want you to do is select
the flash drive
or a jump drive that you would like to use for ready boost
and this right click it
and hit properties
and just give that a second pop up
okay we are in the options just select ready boost
and it's defaulted not to use this device because obviously most people use
a flash drive or a jump drive
for storage, pictures whatever the case may be
I'm going to select dedicated
and go as high as possibly can
hit apply
and okay
now my jump drive
or flash drive is set
to help the performance of my PC
So that is one way to increase performance
another way to uh... help your performance is to do what's called disc
cleanup if you've never done disk clean up before on any of your computers
this is an absolute must
to get into disk cleanup I'm just gonna show you the quickest way
hit the start key
and in the search I want you to type disk
as you can see disk cleanup and disk derangement both showed up when i
searched disk
click on disk cleanup
and select drive you want to do. Now normally you would
you would pick the c drive because that's the most common
what this cleanup is going to do is it's going to get rid of all the
temporary internet files all the junk files anytime you surf the web & every
website you ever go to
it logs
junk garbage files
okay keep in mind it also removes everything in the recycling bin so if
you have anything in the recycling bin that you want, to make sure you untick it
otherwise just select everything and hit okay
and it will delete all that junk.
if you've never done that before it may take an hour, or more.
okay
and right underneath there was disk defragment
that is also an absolute must
to get to it once again that quickest ways just at the start key
type disk
and then click disk defragmentor
now what disk defragmentor does is it organizes the files on the drive
so it
can get to it quicker
the drive to be more efficient and will actually improve the life span of your
hard drive because you have to understand a harddrive is spinning very
fast
and working very hard to find the files in a timely manner that you were
requesting by doing disk defragmentor it will bring it all closer together and will
actually find a quicker
so select the drive you want and hit defragment disk.
once again it's a process that can take a very long-time if you've never
done it before
on both this cleanup and disk defrag I would recommend doing once every six
months even once a year
depending on how heavily the machine is used
it is something that does need to be done
okay so I've showed you three out of the ten and showed you disk cleanup disk defrag
and the ready boost
Next on my list is spyware scans if you have never scanned your machine
for spyware chances are you do have quite a bit of it
A lot of anti virus do come equipped with
things to get rid of spyware
me personally i do prefer malwarebytes it's it is free they also have a pro
version
but the free version is excellent
I am going to put a link at the bottom of the page here if you would
like to try it
as long as it's updated installed doing a quick scan every once
in awhile is fine
keep in mind it may find things
it may find quite a bit it may not find anything that obviously if it doesn't
find anything that's a good thing for you
and
well that's just get if you don't have any spyware
if you've never done a spyware scan i can almost guarantee it will find
something
and when it does if you just hit
fix, delete whatever the case may be
it will get rid of it
I also highly recommend always restarting your machine after a spyware
scan
well after spyware scan that brings us to virus scans you need to have an
antivirus on your machine
most of the time if you buy a machine from a store it will come with a trial
version
keep in mind that trial version is not good forever it may be good for six
months may be good for a year
but you do you need to have an antivirus on your machine
now windows seven does have
windows defender
but you do need to get that through windows update and you do need to keep
it up to date
a free virus program
AVG which i will also have a link for
is a free antivirus
I recommended if you don't want to pay for antivirus. Also keep in mind
your internet service provider whether you have Comcast AT&T, WOW
it doesn't matter what you have
most ISP's will have an antivirus available to you
You do need to call them or login through their website for instance
Comcast I believe has Norton antivirus
it's a free version for you if you are a paid user
So that's one way to get an anti virus as well.
as long as you keep it up to date and scan it once every six months
or once a year it will help the performance of your pc
okay next on our list is registry cleanup every time you uninstall a
program
or uninstall files or whatever the case may be
it will have junk registry files
now to clean your registry there are a lot of free registry cleaners
I personally prefer ccleaner
and it's just a matter of installing it
running it
go to registry
and scan for issues
once again if you have never done this it is going to find a lot
and once it's done with the scan you can hit
fix selected issues
I'd always recommend backing it up
just by the default name it found fifty six issues
fix all selected issues okay my registry has been cleared
registry problems have been cleared
now the nice thing about ccleaner is it will also do exactly what disk
cleanup does. it does it faster and actually does it a little more
efficiently to
it also clears your browser history from firefox and google chrome
which i do not believe disk cleanup does, I believe disk cleanup just does
it for internet explorer
see even though i did
disk cleanup
it still found things
okay
next on our list as msconfig
now this one's a little tricky for people because they
have to pick and choose
what programs they want to start at the very beginning of their computer that's
why we're gonna msconfig
to get to msconfig just hit the start button
and under search type msconfig
and then hit enter
ok malwarebytes finished
and it didn't find anything, I keep my computer pretty clean.
okay back to msconfig
click on start up
these are all the programs that start when you first start your computer
looking through
a lot of them
i would leave certain ones alone but obviously certain things you can tell
for instance I don't need quicktime to start up when i first start up the
computer i don't need itunes
I can leave AVG if i want my security to be on automatically if you
just want it on when you're doing scans you can even take that off
AOL instant messenger yeah i do not want that
starting up when my computer starts
when you're done picking and choosing the files you want to start
just hit apply
click okay
keep in mind this will not begin until you restart your computer
I'd always recommend restarting but for the sake of the video we're gonna
exit without restarting
and just so you can see down here these are programs that are running on my
computer for starts up
okay which brings us to our next one windows updates
i know a lot of people that leave it for automatic update and that's great that's fine
some people don't update their windows or don't give it time to update
their windows
if you have it set the update automatically sometimes it defaults to
update at 3AM in the morning
but unless you computers on at 3AM in the morning it's not going to get the
update
so what you can do is
hit the start key
and it's actually in the main directory
under windows update also if you really want you can search for it as well
click windows updates
unless you have some sort of
pirated software or third-party software that
you really
can't update your windows for instance some things will only work in internet
explorer eight
or nine whatever the case may be
you can still pick and choose what you want to update otherwise just
install all the updates and give your computer time to actually do all the
updates
that way they actually go through, i mean there's a lot of security updates that
fix security holes, updated drivers that will help your overall performance of
your pc
so it is quite important that
you do the windows updates periodically
number nine on my list is
stress on the video card or the GPU
there's a lot of different things you can do in windows that will
help the performance and its actually going to help the overall performance of your
PC
For one i have this beautiful background
of the windows logo but that's actually using up memory it's actually
taking
away
resources to display this image
so one thing you can do is you can right click on your screen anywhere as long as
it's not on an iconic and hit personalize
and were actually gonna change it to just be
whoops didn't want to do that one
give me a second here
what we are going to do is just change it to a solid color
i don't know if you saw what i did there
but that's desktop background so click desktop background
then goto solid colors
and just pick a solid color that you think
would look ok
its using less resources to display
a solid color than it is
a full high-res picture
okay with that said
were also got change how it displays everything
as you can see i mean
it has all these transparencies it has shadows
this does take
resources and memory to display
so what we're going to do is we're going to
right-click computer
so hit start
right-click computer
go to properties
you can also get to this by going to control panel
& going to system
it's the same thing
and we're going to go to advanced system settings
and performance visual effects processor scheduling memory usage in virtual
memory
hit settings
these are all the effects
that are being used
now what you can do
is adjust for best performance
now i always check
the bottom one
because then it will keep it
the same
format
of your start bar otherwise if you have that unchecked pretty much looks like
windows 98
and we don't want that
so your desktop display has been optimized for the best performance
and that'll help your overall performance
last but not least number ten on my list
is
tool bars
if you go into internet explorer or any of your browser's you may have
an obscene amount of toolbars
this
they just get in the way a lot of people don't like them. A couple different
things some of them will have the "X" where you can just disable them.
I always recommend
disabling them, but we want to get rid of them all together so what we're going to
do is we're gonna actually uninstall them
to uninstall these toolbars you do need to have all your browser's
closed so if you're working on something that in
firefox internet explorer of google chrome
make sure it's closed out
okay to do this we're going hit start
go to control panel
and we're going to go to
programs or add or remove programs
uninstall a program
and now the fun part you actually have to go through all this and find
that toolbar
AOL messaging toolbar
that should be it. Select it
right click it
uninstall slash changed uninstalled get rid of it
you don't need it
now as you can see the toolbar is gone
yup now you actually have more space to see your website
keep in mind there are many more ways to improve the performance here PC for
instance adding RAM
hardware based overclocking which i did in my other video.
but keep in mind this is just for basic users that have never maintained
their machine
so that's it
thank you for watching