There is nothing more annoying and time consuming than a slow PC. Having a slow computer really slows down productivity, and contributes to a frustrated day in the office. There are many tools that promise to skyrocket computer speed, but their results are a subject of debate.
The best thing to do to keep a computer running smooth is to keep it clean. By clean I mean, keeping just the necessary programs running on the startup folder, doing disk fragmentation regularly, and avoiding installations of unnecessary programs. I have written how to do all these stuff in previous posts, check them below.
- How to remove programs from running at startup
- Automate disk fragmentation with a script
- Remove free trial software from your computer
To further improve the performance of your computer, you should disable some unnecessary services running on the system background. notice that I will only mention three useless services on this post, but there are many more that you could disable.
For example, many people use Itunes to play their tunes, but they never use an Ipod, and itunes creates services exclusively for Ipods. You should disable those services if you don’t use them.
Help and Support ““ This service takes a lot of resources on your computer and is hardly used by computer users. It is supposed to help people finding solutions to many windows problems, but most of the tips it offers are completely irrelevant to a problem a user might encounter. Most people hit Google to find solutions to their problems. Disable it.
Error Reporting Services ““ This service is the one in charge of reporting errors of any application or program running on the computer to the user. Has outlook ever crashed on you? If so, you might have noticed some annoying errors asking you to report the problem to Microsoft for improvements. Yeah, Microsoft really care about that! Disable it.
Remote Registry ““ This service allow remote users to have access to your local computer registry. If your computer is within a network, administrators can connect to your computer registry to tweak your system. If your computer is not within a network, or you don’t want any admin to get into your computer registry, then disable this service.
There you have them, three services less running on your computer. Let us know on the comment sections if you have any trick to improve system performance.
Also at your task menu tab of (Processes) look for bottle necks. Many processes tend to grow and swallow KB(s) to MB(s) of memory and consume lots of CPU power. Faulty applications are to blame for this or an application wasn’t properly installed. Unless you know what you doing in the processes tab be careful not to end any vital processes (such as winlogon). Ending the wrong processes may result in crashing your system.