What are some things I can do to boost my compter's speed? (besides buying ram)?

Answer 1

Disk Cleanup, Disk Check, Disk Defragment......
Get rid of programs you don't use....

Answer 2

Can do following.....

1. Go to properties of My Computer > Advance > Perfomance > Settings > Select the Best perfomance option.
2. Delete files from C:\windows \Temp\
3. Set the Virtual memory to Actual X 1.5 (minimum) Actual X 3 (maximum)
4. Uninstall programs that u don't use
5. User some good registry cleaner to clean up the registry.
6. Disable System restore
7. Disable 'use simple file sharing' from folder option > View
8. Disable 'offline items to be synchronized on a schedule' from IE explorer > Tools > Advance
9. Run defragmenter (Diskeeper). Run Boot time defragment too.
10. Remove files from desktop ( Big files)

Answer 3

Here is a list of Windows XP tweaks I have put together. If you don't have XP most of them will still work.

PC Tweaks: Speed Up Your System (for Windows XP)

First right-click My Computer and go to:
Properties>Advanced>Performance>Settings
Select radio button for best performance
This will take away the blue and green look to XP and give it the old grey windows look but it highly reduces the demand on your video card.
Next, from the same window in Properties>Advanced>Performance>Settings, the new window open should say performance options.
Click the advanced tab and then click change under vitrual memory. Windows adjusts the size of the page file as needed but it has a limit on min and max size. choose a custom size and make both of them the max size. You can make it larger than it was if you like. If it was 1500 MB min and 3000 MB max, it is o.k. to make both 4000 MB as long as your system has plenty of hard drive space. This tweak will keep windows from slowing down while it tries to adjust the size of the page file.
Click O.K. on all windows and the changes will take effect after the next restart. If you have more than one hard drive I recommend using no page file on your C; drive and put one on the other drive instead. This will make it even faster for your system to access. However, if you just have one physical hard drive that is partitioned, then don’t bother.

Next run "services.msc" from the run box in the start menu.
Double-click and disable the following at your discretion:
Error reporting- does nothing for you, just helps Micro$oft
indexing service- on the rare occasion that you are using the search function, it will make it a little faster, the rest of the time it is constantly indexing your system and slowing it down
Themes- you know what they are, keep 'em if ya want 'em
Help and support- the "browser" that pops up when you hit F1 key
there are plenty more in there that are unnecessary and slowing down your system, but these are the ones that are completely safe for everyone to disable. The rest depend on the user and their particular system.

Also in the Properties menu for My Computer:
on the system restore tab- you can disable this feature to speed up your system but the windows system restore feature will not be available. When you really need to use it, it hardly ever works. Most of the time you will get half way through the restore and an error pops up telling you that your system can not be restored to that date/time.
It’s up to you, but just make sure you have anti-virus running and regularly back up your system. When its time to do a restore your better off doing it the old fashion way with the CD.

Run MSCONFIG from the run box. Uncheck anything that you are ABSOLUTLY sure does not need to be running every time your system restarts.
for the rest, if I don’t know, I usually Google the file name with the *.exe and get a good idea if it needs to be running.

Answer 4

If you are running XP go to start run and type in services.msc and follow the instructions in this link to turn off things that are running in the background that you don't really need. http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=1404 Keep close track of what you turn off and if something that you need stops woking turn that service back on. Everything you do in here according to these instruction should be completely reversible. Best of luck.

Answer 5

You can use a performance enhancing program that cleans up RAM, use defrag, use disk clean, and other tools to enhance the performance of the pc. I don't recomend overclocking though. It will void warranties and cause the pc to be unstable.

Answer 6

Delete some of the stuff on your computer,or download the Yahoo! toolbar

Answer 7

defrag
disk clean up
deleting unnecessary files
scandisk or checkdisk
lower your video resolution and colors used

Answer 8

Someone else asked this same question. Check out this page - http://sillydog.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=67177

Answer 9

http://www.pctoolmag.com/279/computer-software.html

Answer 10

You need to do a msconfig..
That stops programs from starting...