Finally The Wait Is Over
Finally The Wait Is Over
Finally The Wait Is Over
Today we are going to share a detailed guide which will help you in making Windows 8
fasterand improve your system performance. It'll help you in disabling unnecessary eye
candy effects such as shadows, animations, etc. Also you'll be able to disable unwanted
programs and services which start automatically with Windows.
So if you want to tweak Windows 8 and want to make it super fast, check out following
simple steps:
We are providing a ready-made Registry script in this step which will tweak some
settings in Windows 8 Registry to make Windows faster. It'll reduce timeout values, set
Windows to automatically end not responding tasks, make menus to show faster upon
clicking and tweak various other settings.
Simply download the zip file given in following topic, extract it and you'll get "Registry
Tweaks to Make Windows Faster.reg" file. Run the file and it'll ask for confirmation,
accept it:
Download Windows 8 Registry Tweaks Collection
The zip file also contains an uninstallation registry script to restore all default settings.
By default Windows shows many eye candy effects such as animations, shadow effects,
etc to enhance user interface. You can turn off these kind of effects to speed up system
performance.
1. Press "Win+R" keys together to open RUN dialog box. Now type sysdm.cpl and
press Enter. It'll open System Properties window.
2. Now go to "Advanced" tab and click on "Settings" button present in "Performance"
section.
3. It'll open a new window. Now uncheck following options:
o Animate controls and elements inside windows
1. Open My Computer and click on "View" tab present in the Ribbon. Now click on
"Options" button present at the end to open Folder Options window.
2. Go to "View" tab and uncheck following options:
o Display file size information in folder tips
There are many built-in services in Windows which automatically start with Windows
and always run in background even if the system doesn't need them. You can disallow
many unnecessary services to start automatically with Windows to improve system
performance.
Check out following tutorial to learn which services you should disable in Windows 8:
Many 3rd party software add their entries in Windows startup list so that they can
automatically run as soon as Windows starts. Many of those startup items are
unnecessary and can be removed from startup list to speedup Windows.
Now the disabled program will no longer run whenever you start Windows. It'll only run
if you launch it manually.
By default Windows plays sounds for various system events such as error messages,
device connect, device disconnect, command success, battery status, UAC prompt, etc.
Sometimes many of these sound notifications might cause a little bit slowness in your
system. If you have a slow computer system, you can disable some or all sound
notifications in Windows 8 to speedup your computer system:
1. Open Control Panel and click on Sound icon. Alternatively, you can directly open it
usingmmsys.cpl command.
2. Once you open Sound window, go to "Sounds" tab. Here you can click on desired
program event which you want to disable and then select "(None)" from "Sounds"
drop-down list.
If you want to disable all sound notifications, select "No Sounds" from "Sound Scheme"
drop-down box.
3. Apply the changes and close the window.
STEP 7: A Few More Things to Do to Make Windows 8 Faster
After following all above mentioned steps, you should be able to notice big
improvement in your system performance. Apart from these steps, you should also do
following things regularly: