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We’ve come across this question nothing less than a few hundred times and we’ve always gave a tip or two to aid in speeding up your sluggish PC. I think it’s time someone gave you the straight answer.

1. Performance at a graphical sacrfice

If your main concern is speeding up your PC / Laptop, then I don’t think you would mind getting rid of the extra features on your GUI (The Graphical User Interface displaying all your icons, menus, windows etc.. ) Getting rid of these little graphical add-ons, believe it or not, can add anywhere between a 10 – 20% performance boost to your system’s speed. Figure one shows you the Windows XP Shell in full – resource consuming – layout.

Figure 1

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Notice the Green start menu and the slight variations in color. We are looking to have the PC not spend time drawing and hence adding to the time it takes the PC to actually do a desired task. Keep in mind, we are trying to free up the PC to do other important processing such as browse the web, open a word or excel document or maybe display a power point presentation.

The next screen shot – Figure 2 – shows you the interface some-what stripped down.

Figure 2

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Now, the Start menu has turned grey along with the task bar at the bottom – Notice it’s no longer blue or has the shades that Figure 1 had.

Turning off the graphical enhancements is pretty straight simple. For Windows Vista users, Skip this section:

Windows XP

- Locate the My Computer Icon on your desktop then right click and choose Properties

- Click on the Advanced Tab then under Performance select Settings

- In the Performance Options window you will be presentend with 4 options – Click the Ajust for best performance radio button

- Click on Apply and wait a few seconds while your PC re-adjusts the graphical interface to the new setting

- Click OK, then OK again and you’re back to your new tweaked desktop.

Windows Vista

- Locate the Computer Icon on your desktop then right click and choose Properties

- To the left of the screen is the Tasks menu – click on Advanced System Settings link

- The System Properties window should be displayed on your screen now – Under Performance select Settings

- In the Performance Options window you will be presented with 4 options – Click the Adjust for best performance radio button

- Click on Apply and wait a few seconds while your PC re-adjusts the graphical interface to the new setting

- Click Ok, then OK again and you’re back to your new tweaked desktop

I can assure you this will definitely give you a noticable performance boost and if you combine all of this with the other tweaks on the next pages, you’ll definitely have a faster running PC compared to when you started.

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