-pops- Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 My son has just told me about this (I think he got it from the other place).http://lifehacker.com/5033518/debunking-co...-tweaking-myths Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 Useful thanks. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 Thanks for posting this! Finally somebody has done a really great job debunking all these "performance boosting" myths - from registry cleaning to the removal of prefetch entries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snec Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 Except a lot of what he says is patently wrong. I wouldn't pay too much attention to this fellow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbjoce Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 My son has just told me about this (I think he got it from the other place).http://lifehacker.com/5033518/debunking-co...-tweaking-mythsInteresting reading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dencandy Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 Except a lot of what he says is patently wrong. I wouldn't pay too much attention to this fellow!Not at all! If you check various sites with input by experienced Windows users you'll find most of them in agreement with this fellow. After all, why would Microsoft market a product that wasn't already optimized for the average user? Only in very specific circumstances can any of these tweaking suggestions have a beneficial effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 If you don't like it on here you can always have a look somewhere else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henke Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 If you don't like it on here you can always have a look somewhere else.I was hoping for at least a response on my thread. I have a problem with windows so I figured windows forum was the place to search for help. apparently not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 If people feel able to help they will always offer. Not everyone visits every day. Sometimes a response is almost immediate, other times a question may be missed by someone who happens to be an expert on that topic. No one on here gets paid. All help is voluntary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
80473y3 Posted May 16, 2009 Report Share Posted May 16, 2009 Maximum PC also did an article on this. except they debunked and approved programs. they even categorized them by XP/Vista only or both!http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/...ar_windows_tipsa few highlights (work on both XP and Vista):Virtual memory tweaksSet Hard drive to "Advanced Disk Use"defragging (DUH!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrum Posted May 31, 2009 Report Share Posted May 31, 2009 My son has just told me about this (I think he got it from the other place).http://lifehacker.com/5033518/debunking-co...-tweaking-mythsThis is my favorite title: Clean, Defrag and Boost Your RAM With SnakeOil Memory Optimizer :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenshishiro Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 I think not all of the tweaking is useless.Disabling services really speeds windows performance as long as you know what you are doing. You really have to be sure that you don't need the service you are disabling.Clearing windows prefetch really speeds up boot time. But it slows down the application loading time.That's what I think so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dencandy Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 I think not all of the tweaking is useless.Disabling services really speeds windows performance as long as you know what you are doing. You really have to be sure that you don't need the service you are disabling.Clearing windows prefetch really speeds up boot time. But it slows down the application loading time.That's what I think so far.I think you're quite right. As you say, disabling services (and programs) that you don'y need running all the time will definitely speed up performace. However, as you say, you have to know what you are doing. What most of us were arguing against was purchasing or installing 3rd party utilities that claim to speed up the computer without explaing what they are really doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustor Williams Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 Awesome, some people do know the 'how to' part of their things :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vietnamvetpc Posted June 16, 2010 Report Share Posted June 16, 2010 I read that. Yeah, it is funny how people will take advantage of others inexperience with computers and will try to charge people hundreds of dollars to fix errors. I know of countless IT guys that do some IT work at home as a side job. Friends will say I have a virus. Can you fix it? They give him $100 to do it. Then he just downloads a free virus program and five minutes later. wala. Some of my friends will actually tell their "client" that the free virus program was actually $19.99. So they make even more profit. Truth is, with some research, you can get your PC running well for free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted June 16, 2010 Report Share Posted June 16, 2010 I read that. Yeah, it is funny how people will take advantage of others inexperience with computers and will try to charge people hundreds of dollars to fix errors. I know of countless IT guys that do some IT work at home as a side job. Friends will say I have a virus. Can you fix it? They give him $100 to do it. Then he just downloads a free virus program and five minutes later. wala. Some of my friends will actually tell their "client" that the free virus program was actually $19.99. So they make even more profit. Truth is, with some research, you can get your PC running well for free.Is this a worthwhile addition to a thread that is almost 2 years old.................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 17, 2010 Report Share Posted June 17, 2010 Some people must spend hours dredging the archives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted June 17, 2010 Report Share Posted June 17, 2010 Some people must spend hours dredging the archives.That's what they're for isn't it ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makcalable Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 As far as registry cleaners go the only one I would recommend is Ccleaner and only to be used occasionally, like once every few months "if you do a lot of installing and uninstalling". The reason being that Windows 7 is actually designed in a way where it ignores old registry entries therefore it does not slow the system down at all.Registry cleaners are snake oil with one exception - "Ccleaner" when used responsibly.Windows 7 is a very clever OS.As for speeding up Windows 7... why? its fast enough already as long as you have pretty good hardware, no tweaking tools will make a difference big enough to notice anyway. The only benefit is you have a trim looking system :)I also totally disagree with third party tweaking tools, Windows 7 has range of utilities you can use to "tweak" the os without having to worry about what registries are being messed up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 Bear in mind that this thread is very old and what applied then may well not apply now.In August 2008, Windows 7 wasn't even a twinkle in Bill Gates' eye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makcalable Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 I stll stand by what i said though ;):) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 I stll stand by what i said though ;):)Yes indeed. The original article referred is in agreement with most of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Lowe Posted February 5, 2011 Report Share Posted February 5, 2011 I can agree with some of it, but in general, I've gotten good results using a program called Mem Turbo. Although, once I put 4 GB of RAM in my computer, it pretty much became unnecessary. But on my older machines and OSs, it made the difference between a program running sluggish, or fast. I don't think it really sped up my computer, but I do believe it made more RAM available to the program I was running, and it made THAT run faster.As for any effect on Windows 7, I can't comment on that yet. I'm still running Windows XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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