Top 10 booster applications in Windows 7

Windows 7 is far better than Windows Vista in all aspects. Windows 7 performance can be improved to run the OS with minimal hardware configuration. In order to improve the performance we need to disable or modify some of the Windows 7 features. By tuning the Top 10 applications will improve your system performance.

10. Adjust power settings in windows 7

Adjust the power settings to save the energy and as well as improve the performance of the operating system. Create a custom plan to manage the power settings in Windows 7. In Control panel open the Power settings icon it will show 3 options in preferred plans as <>Balanced, Power saver and soma additional planes such as Maximum performance, Maximum battery life and many more options available to save the energy and maximize the performance of the computer. Create your custom plan by selecting the Create custom plan link on the left side of the power option window. If you encounter any issues in your power plan you can create a power plan report by using power configuration command. You can run powercfg –energy from the command prompt to create a report with errors, warnings and information.

Windows 7 power options

9. Cleanup your Hard disk

Disk Cleanup the hard disk will increase the hard disk space will improve the performance of the system. Disk cleanup tool identify the temporary internet files, recycle bin, unused programs, Windows components, very old system restore points, hibernate space, system memory dumps, Thumbnails and many more can be identified and deleted from the system using Disk Cleanup utility. You can open the Disk Cleanup utility from Click Windows Start button, click All Programs, click Accessories, click System Tools, then select Disk Cleanup or pres Windows Key and R to open the run prompt and type cleanmgr to open the Disk cleanup utility.

Windows 7 disk cleanup

From the Disk cleanup utility you can select all that want to delete and click OK button to delete the select files to free the hard disk space.

8. Disk Defragmenter in Windows 7

Disk Defragmenter will improve the performance of the system by organizing the folders and files on your hard disks so that each file or folder will occupy contiguous memory allocation will improve the performance of the hard disk.
Disk Defragmenter will take long time to defragment the hard disk and there should not be hard disk activity during the defragmentation will restart the defragmenter.

Disk Defragmentation can be done monthly or when you add more files to disk or when you install a new program or after windows installation.
Open the Disk Defragmenter from Windows Start up button and select All programsAccessories  System tools  Disk Defragmenter or Press Windows Key with R will open Run prompt and type dfrgui and hit enter button to open Disk Defragmenter.

Before doing defragmentation you can analyse the disk to know whether the disk defragmentation is required or not. Once the Disk Analyze is completed it will show a dialog box with defragmentation is required or not.

Do the Defragmentation once it is required. Once the defragmentation is completed you can view the report of the defragmented disk.

Windows 7 Defragmentation

You can schedule the Disk Defragmentation to run automatically at the scheduled time or interval.

7. Turf off Visual Effects in Windows 7

Visual effect uses most resources, by modifying or removing some of the visual effects in Windows 7 will improve the performance of the Windows 7. When it comes to appearance or performance then you can disable the appearance to improve the performance.

You can control 15 visual effects to improve the performance like moving to default windows buttons and visual styles and many more options.
Open the performance information tools by selecting Windows start button  Open the control panel  type Performance Information and Tools in the search box and then select Performance Information and Tools and select Adjust visual effects link on the left side of the window.

Windows 7 Visual effects

From Adjust visual effects you can select Adjust for best performance, Adjust for best appearance or select Custom to select unselect your own list and click OK button to make changes to system.

6. Use USB drive as your Memory Device

In Windows 7 we can use the USB drive as a RAM in addition to the RAM. If Windows 7 is running slow one of the reason is not having enough memory to run the applications. 3 GB or more memory will improve the performance of Windows 7 system.

Increase the memory in Windows 7 by using Windows ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost will allow you to use the additional storage space by adding the removable media to your system. It is easier to use the flash drives to speed up the computer.

To enable or disable ReadyBoost connect the Flash drive and it will open the AutoPlay and select the Speed up my system will show the ReadyBoost tab in Properties window. In order to use the Flash drive as an additional memory to the system select ReadyBoost tab and select Dedicate this device to ReadyBoost will use the entire disk space as RAM to the system, otherwise you can select Use this device to select some space from the disk instead of the complete disk and click OK button to use the Flash drive.

Windows 7 readyboost

5. Enable write cache in Windows 7

Write Caching will enable for an external device to optimize the connected removable storage device, includes Flash drives and other drives. If the storage device is optimized for the quick remove means Windows automatically removed the write-caching to the external devices results in slow data transfer between hard disk and the external storage device.

In order increase the copy speed or external storage device access speed Write cache should be enabled to speed up the data transfer.
Open the Control panel and select System and Security category and select Device Manager link. If the UAC prompts then click yes to access the device manager. Select and expand the Disk Drives and right click the mouse button on the USB storage disk drive to improve its performance and click Properties. Select Policies tab.

In Policies tab select Better performance to enables the Windows Write cache. After that in order to disconnect the External drive you should use option to disconnect the external device safely from the system to avoid data loss.

4. Check Integrity of the system using Error checking utility

Improve the performance of the system by identifying and rectifying the system errors using Error Checking utility. Due to the bad sectors, System errors and other hard disk related issues will reduce the performance of the system by writing the data to the disk slowly.

To check the Integrity of the system run check disk utility at least once in a month to identify the problems early to fix the issues like Bad sectors.
To Check the system integrity open the My computer and select the drive that you want to check for bad sectors and right click the mouse and select Properties from the menu and select Tools tab and select the Check now button.

Windows 7 Disk check

Check disk options you can select Automatically fix file system errors and to fix the system errors and for bad sector if any found in your system you need to fix them immediately in order to avoid writing the data to the bad sector.

3. Enable or Disable Service in Windows

Windows loading performance can be improved by enabling or disabling Windows start up service. Some of the Windows service will be required initially to start the windows system. Many of the unwanted start up service can be removed from the system.

By stopping the Windows default service will affect the system booting. Check the below site for the Windows default service. Before stopping the start up services it is better to create a System restore point. By disabling a service might crash the system, but you can login in to the system in safe mode to enable the service and restart will boot the system in normal mode. Safe Mode will load the default drivers and services that are needed to load the system instead of loading all the services.

In order to disable or enable the start up service open the Windows run prompt and then type msconfig will open the system configuration to change the startup service.

Without knowing completely about Windows services do not use the system configuration to disable the Windows services

In order to disable any services open the Run prompt by pressing Windows key and R or click Windows start button and select Run and type services.msc to start the windows service and select a service and right click the mouse button and select properties to change the start up type to either Manual or Automatic or Disable the service from Windos start up.

Windows 7 startup

2. To Disable Windows Program Compatibility Assistant in Windows 7

Local Group Policy Editor is available only on Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise editions.

Program Compatibility Assistant is a Windows utility which will monitor the user initiated programs and will check the compatibility issues will decrease the performance of the system. It is a background service which will run in the background to check if the previous version programs like XP compatible programs will able to run properly. Some issues may require you to run the application as Administrator.

Open the Local policy editor from Control panel to disable or enable Program Compatibility Assistant. Open the Control Panel  Administrator Tools Local Security Policy will open the Local Security Policy and under Windows components check the Application Compatibility in the right panel right click the mouse button and Turn off Program Compatibility Assistant and click Edit and select Disabled to disable the Program Compatibility Assistant.

1. Disable Hibernate

If you are not using the Hibernate facility the disable the Hibernate facility will save disk space. By default the Hyberfil.sys will occupy the same space as that of your RAM. Enabling hibernate will occupy more disk space and it will resume the system faster without loading all the services, But it will affect the system performance and the new security updates and patches will not get installed until the system restarts.

In order to enable or disable the hibernate feature in Windows 7 type cmd in the Windows Search box and press Ctrl + Shift + Enter instead of pressing the enter button. Ctrl + Shift +Enter is the keyboard shortcut to open the Run as Administrator.Press Alt + C or click Continue to continue the UAC elevation warning and type powercfg –h on and hit enter to enable the Hibernate feature in Windows 7. To disable the Hibernate feature type powercfg –h off and hit enter to disable the Hibernate feature in Windows 7.

Windows 7 hibernate

Top 10 booster application in windows 7