Speed up your comp!

[SilverTears]

This was an idea from over at royal gfx. So I dont take credit for showing you this. I did not make it up. Anyway,

CTRL - ALT - DELETE

Then up top you should see view.
Then something update speed.
Set it to low.
I tried it and it worked fine for me and many people. If you want the comments just ask me and ill post the link up to the page.

[xNemesis]

what exactly does this update thing do?

[Arc]

how does it work and what does it do?

[hellsing293]

how would it get faster if you set it to low?

[AngelzUnit]

Actually that might help, not sure if it'll make a noticably change. All it really changes is how fast it refreshes the display for the screen that shows all your running processes. High refreshes twice every second, normal once every seconds, low once every 4 seconds, and paused make it so it doesnt auto refresh, you'll have to do it manually by clicking refresh now, under the same view tab. Maybe some people can try it and post the results, although I doubt thre would really be any.

Hope it makes sense to you guys lol, not too good at explaining things haha

[SilverTears]

I dont have an idea but it really works. I dont really know what it does but looking at the comments and from me its no harm. It speeds up your internet is what i would said

[Arc]

oddly enough i tried this and i did get a slight speed increase on internet, very minimal though

i shall ask my brother, he has 3 degree in computers hell kno

[wm_hunter]

There are better ways to speed up your PC, I don't think this will make a noticable differance on most modern computers, but on the older ones it might help...

The best ways to speed up your computer is...

1 Get Rid of Temp Files
A great program to do this for you is called CleanUp. Scroll down on the page and select CleanUp451.exe

Many programs store files on your computers harddrive to make them boot a little bit faster, or have that webpage load a little bit faster. The problem is, these add up big time. Usually when I run just a standard scan (recommended, there are other scanning options though), it cleans up about 1-2 Gigs from computers people have owned for about a year.

I run it once a week but all you really have to do is run it once, more free diskspace means your computer can use more of it to help out the memory when it comes to computer speeds.

2 Update Your Memory

Get at least 512mb SDRAM... cost you about $90-100? You will see a big improvment in performance from a 256 or lower... Personally I suggest a gig (1024 mb)... unless you are going to run really new games or memory hog applications you wont need anymore.

3 Do You Really Gotta Startup?

There are often programs that startup when Windows begins that you don't really need. Take a look through your startup and remove anything you don't need. It will improve Windows loading time, and not having it run in the background will improve computer performance

4 Nasty Nasty Spyware!

Spyware has a nasty habbit of slowing down computers. Download either\both AdAware SE and Spybot Search & Destroy and run scans. They work well together and catch what the other one might miss.

[trayne]

This was an idea from over at royal gfx. So I dont take credit for showing you this. I did not make it up. Anyway,

CTRL - ALT - DELETE

Then up top you should see view.
Then something update speed.
Set it to low.
I tried it and it worked fine for me and many people. If you want the comments just ask me and ill post the link up to the page.

Update speed in task manager is its update on listed files that your computer is running. lowering it increases the frame in normal windows use but lowers the listing speed in taks manager. As for making a computer faster, you can change the framerate of the startbars refresh rate, disable certain help units, for spyware and such, you can just get super ad blocker. it blocks ads, cleans computer and it can clear a cache. you can also adjust the kernal if you like

[modulus]

It did nothing on my system, well, if it did, I couldn't see the difference.

[wm_hunter]

It does make a difference, but on most modern computers not much of one at all... best ways to speed up are get rid of temp files (more HD to cache things on and help the RAM), update memory (more RAM makes every program happier), get rid of spyware (some have a habbit of slowing down comps) and don't run or have something run at startup that you really don't need, they just resource hogs.

[trayne]

you could always speed up and increase memory by disabling some unneeded startup items in msconfig (START>Run..>msconfig). Other ways consists of working in registry edit (START>Run..>regedit). You could disable the Paging executive in windows XP. You can also increase the systems cache in windows XP.
Registry can also increase shutdown speed. Big savers if you're a Nvidia card user would be to disable the nvidia driver helper service. for gaming, you could overclock your nvidia video card. depending on the card you can probably increase it from 4-12mhz wich is around 6-40mb and youd be surprised how much it helps. I usually did small things like increase the startbar refresh rate. and set the desktop process to increase and clearing a page file at shutdown/restart

[Xx~WEEd~xX]

i got no difference maby it dosent work as well with the faster internet because its already fast

[Tap]

you could always speed up and increase memory by disabling some unneeded startup items in msconfig (START>Run..>msconfig). Other ways consists of working in registry edit (START>Run..>regedit).

with msconfig i suggest you dont dsable anything you are not sure about.
also dont play with the registry unless you know what you are doing.

[trayne]

msconfig is safe enough as long as they stick with the startup tab and actually read the locations. it will usually tell you what it is. most common to disable would be the nvidia icon, messenger, aim, yahoo icon depending on what is least used and unused background programs such as quicktime.