Sunday, June 27, 2010

5 ways to Increase Windows 7 Performance

Windows 7 has plenty of improvements to the performance side compared to Vista. One of the main reasons why Vista was a failure due to the fact that the performance of Vista was not on top of things. While Windows 7 is optimized & shows great performance would still performance issues due to various reasons such as drivers not updated for some applications consume more memory, etc. You can use the performance of Windows 7 to be followed & also performed with of the build tools in Windows 7.
windows 7
1. View Performance in Event Viewer: You can monitor the performance using the logs in Event Viewer. Event Viewer is a device for monitoring the health of systems & solving issues when they arise. (Control Panel-> Panel-All Items> Performance Information & Tools-> Advanced Tools-> Performance View details in the log)
Event Viewer
2. Performance Monitor: You can use Windows Performance Monitor to examine how the programs you run affect your computer performance, both in actual time & by collecting log information for later analysis. (Control Panel-> Panel-All Items> Performance Information & Tools-> Advanced Tools-> View Performance Monitor)
Performance monitor
3. Resource Monitor: Windows Resource Monitor is a system device that lets you view information about the use of hardware (CPU, memory, disk, & network) & program (file handles & modules) resources in actual time. You can use Resource Monitor to start, cease, suspend, & resume processes & services. (Control Panel-> All Control Panel Items->Performance Information & Tools-> Advanced Tools- > View Resource Monitor)
Resource Monitr
4. Generate a System Health document: System health document is generated based on the performance of CPU, Network, Disk drives, Program, Operating System, hardware configuration, memory etc. This document will give an in depth idea of the performance issues in your PC.
Health document
5. Alter appearance & performance of Windows: There's plenty of features which are enabled or disabled by default in your OS. In case you are not using these cosmetic features, you can turn off to get better performance. You can alter the system for best appearance or best performance.
Advanced Options for performance
These tools will help you to get the best performance from your PC based on the hardware configurations. These tools can be accessed through control panel in Windows 7 (Control Panel-> All Control Panel Items->Performance Information & Tools-> Advanced Tools)

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