9/22/2011

Free speed up and optimize Windows XP

If you are looking for the way of free speed up Windows XP and free optimize Windows XP, you cannot miss the free Windows XP optimizer-Acebyte Utilitities. It can free optimize Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows7 with ease in one minute.
While optimizing your Windows XP, you can shut down unnecessary background processes and services with ease. You can also run the startup manager to speed up startup. Run the Memory manager to defrag PC RAM for optimize system performance. And run the disk defragmenter to speed up PC as well. Acebyte Utilities contains many internal Windows optimizer for speeding up your computer.
Compared with manually optimize Windows XP, using Acebyte Utilities to optimize Windows XP will save you a lot time and labor. It integrates so many optimizer for speeding up PC that you can optimize Windows XP in one program.
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Manually Optimize Windows 7 Service

There are already many computer users using Windows7 even though the configuration is not very high. How to make low-profile computer run Windows7more smoothly? Although some software provide fool-based optimizations, these optimizations confuse users a lot and they do not know whether it’s effective. In this article I give some tricks for manually optimizing Windows 7, especially the system services.
We first understand some knowledge of system services, then provide targeted services clean-up program for Windows7system according to the diverse needs of Windows7users, improving Windows7 speed.
What is the service?

Service is the system program or process used to perform the specified system function, its purpose is to support other applications, usually it’s running in the background. Compared with the running program, service program does not appear program window or dialog box. We only can see them in the Task Manager.
How to modify the service startup type?
In Win 7 Start Menu “Search programs and files” column type “services.msc” or “service” to search for “services”, then click the list you can open the services management window. Double-click any service to view or modify its properties, in the Properties window you can modify the startup type to “Manual”, “automatic”, “Automatic (Delayed Start)” or “Disabled.”
What is the difference between “Automatic” and “Automatic (Delayed Start)”?

“Automatic” start means the computer will load the service item at startup in order to support other running programs on the basis of this service. The “Automatic (Delayed Start)” is a very humane design in Windows7. Start in this way, you can delay to start the service item after a period of booting system, which can solve the problems of slow startup or slow response because the low-profile computer loads too many service items.
What is the difference between “Manual” and “disabled”?

In the “Manual” case, although the process is off, it can still be activated in a particular case, but if the service start is set to “disabled”, service will not run unless the user manually modify the property.
What services need to start manually?

“Manual” mode, as the name suggests this service will not load as the system starts, users have to start it manually or modify its properties to “automatic” after other services are activation or the user goes in the service management interface. This model is commonly used when we have to open the disabled function. Take “Application Identity” services for example, in default the service is in “Manual” state, that is it does not start. But when users need to use AppLocker, they must manually enable this service (change to “automatic” state), or AppLocker function will not work.
What should pay attention to when modify the system service?

Modifying the system service may cause some unexpected problems, so we’d better backup the default service states before changing. Open service manager window then click “operation → Export List”, then select “Save as” as TXT or CSV file. I suggest save as CSV file because the document can be opened in Excel.
In addition, if we normally enter the system because of the errors while modifying the service, we can press F8 to boot into safe mode, then modify the service startup properties in safe mode.

Optimize Windows 7- disable unnecessary services

Genuine Windows7 has sold 400 million, and piracy Windows7 (most Win7 Ultimate) has become more popular, while the risks are also high. We may download a virus during download process, Win7 activation may also lead to Win7 crash.
Many users want their Windows7 run more smoothly, run faster, but most users are unable to find a way to speed up the system! In fact, we can use some small tricks to optimize Windows7 on the fly!
Here’s one way to optimize Windows7 quickly – to disable Win 7 unnecessary services.
In Windows7, there are many services that many users do not have to access. After disabling unnecessary services, you can save some resources for the system, can improve Win 7 operating speed. Anyway, we don’t have to use the unnecessary services, turning off unnecessary services can improve PC speed, why not close these unnecessary services?
Here I introduce a simple way to stop unnecessary services.
First open the “Start” menu, go to “Control Panel”, then go to “Programs”,  then in “turned on or off Windows features”  uncheck the services that you do not need at all, such as games, Windows Media Player and so on. Stopping these unnecessary services can save PC resources, can speed up PC instantly, why not do disable them?

Change Power Options to Speed up Windows 7

Win7 new users may have questions why my 3DMark test scores in Win7  is not as high as other users under the same configuration, or when playing certain 3D games my computer will freeze occasionally the, how can I do?
In fact, these problems are likely related to your power options of Win7 system. Those who are familiar with Win7 system know two characteristics of the power options. First, in the desktop Win7 systems, there is no power Options icon at the right of taskbar, but and in the notebook, there is.
Second, regardless of the version Win7 system, after the default installation we are using “balanced” power management, to open the detailed settings menu of this power program you can see a PCI-Express related with graphics power is set to “medium power save”.
This means that under the default the graphic does not run at full speed, resulting in the above-mentioned unsatisfied performance test results. And it’s not difficult to understand why Win7 will occasionally freeze while playing game.
I have specifically contrasted 3DMark tests between Win7 default programs’ balanced power and high-performance solutions, at the same scene, the former is slower an average of 3-5 frames per second than the latter, even more obvious at the complexity scene .
In fact, it is easy to solve, we just switch to “high performance” power plan before running the test or playing the game.
However, this is easy for laptop users, but there is not the power options icon on the taskbar on desktop Win 7. We have to open the Control Panel, then find the power options, each switch will be so troublesome. The following I give you two ways easier to switch to power options.
Option One: shortcut + Custom shortcuts

Since the Power Options icon exist in Control Panel, you can create a shortcut to the desktop, and add custom shortcuts to quickly open the Power Options to achieve the purpose.
The Setting is very simple. Turn into the control panel, right-click on Power Options icon, select “Create Shortcut”. Back to the desktop, right-click the shortcut – Properties, in the pop-up window find the “shortcut key”, enter a custom shortcut key, enter “Shift + Alt + P”. Later as long as we press after the custom shortcut, we can quickly open the Power Options window.
Option Two:
If you think that the first method is also not fast enough, then I recommend the second method. Win7 system coming with Powercfg.exe is the command-line of power options. In the command, run the command so that we can not only view the current system power scheme, can also switch to the effect with a button to.
On the desktop create a new Notepad, and change the extension from txt to bat, and then enter the following:
% SYSTEMROOT% \ System32 \ powercfg.exe-setactive 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c
Rename the file to “high-performance power solutions,” and save. If you need to switch back to “balance” or “energy” program, please refer to the above operation, respectively enter the following to:
% SYSTEMROOT% \ System32 \ powercfg.exe-setactive 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e
% SYSTEMROOT% \ System32 \ powercfg.exe-setactive a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a
In fact, you only have to slightly modify, using the first method to create a shortcut and custom shortcuts for the second option, then you can achieve to switch the power with a key.

9/20/2011

Speed up computer start-up

Slow computer startup is a problem troubling most computer users. It’s a common wish to make computers start faster. During the process of using computers I summarize some ways to speed up computer start-up, here to share with you.

1. BIOS settings optimization
From the BIOS setup page, enter “Advanced BIOS Features” option, move the cursor to “Frist Boot Device” option, press the “PageUP” and “PageDOWN” to choose, default value is “Floppy”, which means the system reads information beginning with the floppy drive when starts computer. This will lengthen the start-up time and shorten the life of the floppy drive. So we have to choose “HDD-0″ to start directly from the hard disk. In addition, in the BIOS settings, it’s suggested to disable “Above 1MbMemoryTest”and enable “QuickPowerOnSelftest”.
The settings in “Advanced Chipset Features” are significant in acceleration. Change the setting of “Bank 0/1 DRAM Timing” from “8ns/10ns” to “Fast” or “Turbo”. “Turbo” is faster than “Fast”, but less stable, “Fast” recommended.
For memories of good quality, it’s recommended to set “SDRAM CAS Latency” as “2″, which can speed up start-up.
Many motherboards support AGP4X, so enable “AGP-4XMode”.

2. Start the DMA mode, improve hard drive speed
Hard disks using UDMA/33, UDMA/66, or UDMA/100 technology respectively have a maximum transfer rate of 33MB/s, 66MB/s, 100MB/s. Theoretically, the transfer rate of these hard disks is 3 to 6 times of that of IDE hard disks. But in Windows the default settings of DMA is disabled. So you need to enable it.
Open “Control Panel → System → Device Manager” window, unfold ‘disk drives’ branch, double-click the hard disk icon of UDMA, go to “Properties → Settings → Options” tick “√” the “DMA” item then press OK. Close all dialog boxes and restart your computer.

3. Remove the Windows boot logo.
First you have to open the “Start” → “Settings” → “Folder Options”. In the “Advanced Settings” of “View” tag, tick “Show all files.” Then open the C disk, find this file “MSdos.sys”, and cancel its “read only” attribute. Open it and add a statement: LOGO=0” in the “Option” phase.and with one statement: LOGO = 0. Then Windows boot logo will not be loaded, which reduces the start-up time by several seconds.

4. Optimize the “Startup” items.
Beginners love to try some computer software programs, but remove them after a while. For some reasons unknown, the software still resides in the “startup” projects, which greatly lengthen the start-up time. It’s easy to solve this problem. You can go to “Start” → “Run” and input the command “msconfig” to bring up the “System Configuration Utility Programs”, click on the “Startup” tab, and remove the “√” from any programs you do not want to be loaded. Thus, shorten at least the start time by 10 seconds.

System Performance Optimization

In this article, I share with you some very effective ways to optimize Win 7 system, hope to help you have a better experience using Win 7, and make your system run in a fast, stable and secure state.
Although Win 7 does not waste sources like Vista does, still the virous back-office services and system effects consume much of the memory. Therefore it is necessary to optimize the performance of Win 7, and the effects are significant.

1. Shut down unwanted services, improving efficiency.
To disable unused system services can not only reduce the system’s consuming of memory, but also speed up the system response. Basic optimization settings can be done by Acebyte Utilities.
Launch the program, and then click “Turbo Boost” to get to the setting interface. Click the button in the middle, then you can choose the system services or running applications you want to stop.

2. Customize visual effects, saving system memory
The beautiful interface takes up much of the memory. If your computer’s memory is not so “rich”, then turning off some visual effects is clearly a better choice.
Right click “Computer” icon, select “Properties” → “Advanced System Settings”, click “Settings” in the “Performance” box and then, based on your need, close some visual effects, such as closing, “Fade in/out or slide menus into View “, etc.
After the above steps of the optimization settings, the consuming of system memory is reduced significantly, thus system performs more efficiently.
However, some functions of Win 7 has nothing to do with the system memory, for example, “Taskbar Thumbnails” function of the delay of this phenomenon is because the system configuration problems, so need to be resolved by modifying the registry.
Speed ​​up the display taskbar thumbnails show speed optimization

3. End tasks to reduce waiting time

Open the registry editor and navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\Control”, find “WaitToKillServiceTimeOut” and change the value to “1000″. Close the Registry Editor, and then restart the computer. After this setting, Win 7, when shutting down, will not spend a lot of time waiting for services that do not respond.

4. Clean up trash files
After running for a period of time, system generates many wanted cache files which has no use but consumes system memory. Therefore you should clean them up regularly.
Launch Acebyte Utilities and you will see the main menu interface. Click on “Utilities Box”, then “Optimize”, and last “Registry Cleaner”

Above are to introduce some practical ways to optimize system performance. Follow these steps, and your system will run in a fast, stable and secure state.

9/19/2011

Hidden registry slows your computer down. Find and clean up registry!

There are in your computer registry that you may never use. The registry probably slows your PC down. What are needed and what unwanted. You may all know how to delete the unneeded fonts and backup files. How can you clean up registry unwanted? You will find the answer here. Note: Before doing the following procedures, you should back up the Windows registry for restore in case you clean up some needed registry.
Remove the redundant virtual drive icon
After a virtual drive is installed in the system, an extra CD-ROM icon appears in “My Computer”. The virtual drive icon remains there even if the virtual drive is no longer used. So the icon should be deleted. Click the “Start → Run”, input the “regedit” command to open the Registry Editor, unfold HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Enum \ SCSI branch. There are under SCSI usually two sub-keys which correspond to the virtual drive and physical drive. Delete all the sub-keys under SCSI and restart the computer. The virtual drive icon has been removed.
Remove redundant system-level icon
System-level icons refer to those automatically created by system when installing Windows, such as Recycle Bin, Inbox, Network Neighborhood, etc. Some of them are useless for users. Open the Registry Editor, and unfold HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \Windows \ CurrentVersion \ explorer \ Desktop \ NameSpace then delete the unwanted sub-keys.
Delete redundant options in “Find”
Unfold HKEY_USER \ Default \ Software \Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Doc-FindSpecMRU, delete the relevant keys in the right-side window. This may in a way speed up your PC.
Remove the unneeded keyboard layout
Windows is trying to become users friendly. So the keyboard layouts are suitable for people from different countries. Open the Registry Editor, unfold HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\KeyboardLayouts, then you’ll see Spanish (Traditional), Danish, German (Standard) and other keyboard layouts. Delete these sub-keys if you do not use the layouts.
Remove the Locale
Similar to the keyboard layouts mentioned above you should also clean up registry of the Locale. In the Registry Editor, unfold HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Nls \ Locale. If you only use Simplified Chinese, just keep the key “00,000,804″ and delete the others.