I have to say that Compared to previous versions of Windows like Windows 7 and XP, the new Windows 8 is certainly speedy. You might felt that fast booting in Windows 8 in the fresh installation. After you have installed many Windows 8 Apps and desktop softwares, the Windows 8 will boot time will be increased due to the many start up apps.
NOTE : THIS GUIDE IS APPLICABLE to WINDOWS 7 ALSO.
Here in this post I want to share some more useful tips to speed up Windows 8 Boot time and How to boost the Windows 8 Performance?
HOW TO MAKE or SPEED UP WINDOWS 8 PC MORE FASTER?
Remove/Disable Unnecessary services
Step 1 : Press Win + R to open the RUN Window. Now just type msconfig in the Run Window and Press enter.
Step 2: Now System Configuration Window will open.In that Window move to the Services tab. There tick the checkbox of the the Hide all Microsoft services. Now the Window will show you the 3rd party software services such as from Adobe update , Google update, Mozilla maintenance service. Now uncheck the services from that list, you don’t need anymore.
Manage Your Startup Programs
Step 1: Windows startup Manage utility is now moved from Msconfig Windows to Task Manager. Now Open the RUN Window and type taskmgr and press enter to open the Task manager or right click in the windows taskbar and click Task manager.
Step 2. In Task Manager click the More Details arrow to get the start up and more tabs. Now Move to Start up Tab. There you can see many startup apps you have installed like utorrent, Adobe updater utility,skype. Just click the app and disable that you don’t need to open that when Windows startup.
Disable Animations and Increase Performance
Windows 8 will animate when you Minimize,Maximize the window and closing the programs. These animations might reduce your system performance significantly. You can disable this animation to get more performance increase from Windows 8.
Step 1: Now Open the RUN Command Window and type SystemPropertiesAdvanced and then press enter. It will open the System properties With Advanced Tab. There click the Setting button in the Performance section.
Step 2. Now you will get Performance Options Window. There just untick the checkboxes like I demonstrated in screenshot.
Windows 8 Registry hack to Improve Speed
In this registry tweak I will show you to how to
End the tasks of the Applications or Apps which are not responding and taking much time to close by Windows Automatically
Decrease menus show delay time. After that When you click the menu, it will open faster.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop]
"AutoEndTasks"="1"
"HungAppTimeout"="1000"
"MenuShowDelay"="8"
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="2000"
"LowLevelHooksTimeout"="1000"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelMouse]
"MouseHoverTime"="8"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl]
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="2000"
Just copy and paste this in Notepad and save this as registryspeed.reg. Then Open this file and Click yes when UAC dialog opens. After that again click yes to install this settings.
To Skip the above file creation step, just Download Registry Tweak zip file which has been already made by me.
Stop Windows Indexing
Windows index service automatically monitor all your files and indexes all your files for easy searching. This background service significantly increase the load on your CPU and it might reduce your system performance.
You can stop this service to get significant speed improvement in Windows 8 PC. Please Note that it will disable search index of your Computer. So that when you search files in your computer, search process will be slowed down.
Step 1: Open RUN Command Window and type services.msc, and press Enter. Then locate the Windows Search service in the list, right-click it and select Properties.
Step 2: In the properties Window, set the start up type as Disabled
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