Windows 7 Forums have a new article featuring 19 ways to speed up Windows 7. Some of these are simple tweaks that you can perform in a few clicks others require a more advanced understanding of the... More...
So virtually. What they're telling us................. is stuff we've known for the last 5+ years. It's not exactly new information is it. I mean any n00b will know these to begin with.
I think from the quote you popped up this is mean't for people who aren't running as much RAM as you. Prob peoples with 1-2GB of RAM could use Readyboost to speed things up if perhaps they can't afford to spend £40-60 on an additional physical memory perhaps?
7 - Services work in a bit different way in Win7. I didn't need to disable anything in Win7 Ultimate on Netbook 9 - Not recommended + it disables some features 12 - Not really an issue for a netbook, but ok... 14 - It's not wise at all. Search Indexing had really negative effect on Vista before SP1. Since Vista SP1 I'd recommend using it for better utilization for Start Menu search, mails etc. 15 - Only some gadgets have visible negative impact and it's none of preinstalled ones. 16 - I doubt you'll see performance boost over balanced. 18 - Mostly agreed, but I can't recommend any free anti-virus. You get what you pay for. The rest - known for ages, published many times, even by MS.
That is the most useless list of things ever. Mostly because, as a freeelance tech...or paid tech, everything on that list you should already be doing. Was expecting registry tweaks and such.
Aren't step 1 and 2 wonderful, GET NEW HARDWARE, gee, thanks Micro$oft. The rest is also obvious bull**** a mentally handicapped monkey could have figured out.
Why do people write "Micro$oft"? If you don't like their products, don't use them. Period. If you do, as me running Win7 Ultimate and developer tools - Visual Studio 2008 Pro and SQL Server 2008 on Atom-powered Netbook with Aero and prefer paying for quality software rather than using worse alternative, then there's no reason to do blame MS for that.
You know very well it has nothing to do with liking or disliking their products to dislike the company as a whole. If there were any real alternatives, believe me, I would be using them. I've often contemplated using a Linux distro but that just complicates things too much. Vista and 7 both still have some heavy flaws with basic functions. Disable driver signature enforcement for a while and see what happens.
Best tweak ever still remains removing the default menu delays when clicking buttons such as the start button. Windows 7/Vista comes with a default delay out of the box, which gives people the impression that XP is more responsive. http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/menu-delay-time-windows-7/
1. Buy an OCZ Vertex 2. Watercool an i7 975 and OC like Chipsy, and if you're chipsy well .... keep up the good work 3. Have a monkey install your hardware and configure your drivers 4. Don't buy a G19 ... it won't make your computer faster 5. Don't install applications... it slows down processes 6. Defraging alone is for faggets, FORMAT and defrag ( or re-image if you don't believe in formating) 7. Browse G3D daily to have a little bit of your sanity taken away ETC ETC ETC
