More PC Speed Tips

Earlier, I talked about using JKDefrag to defrag and speed up the Hard disk in Windows. In addition to that, here are some additional tools that I use:

(1) PageDefrag Utility

To squeeze out that additional speed boost from your PC, check out the PageDefrag utility from Microsoft Technet (previously Sysinternals). This program allows you to easily defrag your Windows Pagefile during boot time, every time.

(2) Registry Cleanup Tools

It is no secret that after a period of use and software installation, your Windows registry will bloat to some degree. To trim those unwanted fat off your Windows registry, you could do it manually or turn to some automatic tool. One such tool is Regcleaner by Juoni Vuorio. Be mindful though if you have a Multicore Core CPU. An extra step of assigning CPU affinity for Regcleaner is required. To do that, see my posting on using Imagecfg.exe.

Alternatively, try the wonderful ccleaner. Combine this with the equally handy click&clean utility, trimming unwanted registry fat and removing useless temporary internet cookies and files becomes a real breeze (just with the click of a button).

(3)Registry Compacting Tool

Finally, once you have trimmed those unwanted fat from your registry, you may wish to compact it to squeeze out that additional speed boost. To do that, download, install and execute the NTRegOpt tool.

(4)Turn Off Unnecessary Programs That Load At Startup

Perform a review of the startup programs to access their necessity for loading at startup. Turning off those non-essential startup apps e.g. MSN messenger, Adobe Reader etc, can improve memory utilization and System start up times. One useful tool that I use for this purpose is Autoruns from Microsoft Technet (previously Sysinternals).