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How to improve system performance

Improve system performance
As days pass by your damn new super speed computer becomes slower day by day, Then you’ll start browsing websites like my website find out the exact methods to make your computer faster or to increase your system performance. Well, Elechub.com the most happening site growing along with the technology presents you the easiest methods of all to improve system performance.

Firstly I would like to tell you that you should know the reason why your super fast computer has become slow so that you’ll take the precautions in future so that it will not happen again. As of my knowledge the first and the foremost reason is spywares, adwares, Trojans and new kind of viruses, The computers with internet connection are not safe as , spywares attack your system32 files especially registry files which in result decreases your system performance, this happens  when you visit a website which may be the most reputed or trusted website in the web industry. So I would recommend you to have a best registry cleaner and the best antivirus with being updated everyday.
Now after making your computer safe, improve your system performance by following our simple four steps

Step 1:  Disk Cleanup

1.Open My Computer
2.Right Click on any of the drives C: ,D: ,E:, F:
3.Click on Properties, a new window will be opened as shown below

4. It will be in General tab by default
5. Click on Disk Cleanup button to clean up your disk space

Step 2:  Defragment Hard Drives

1.Open My Computer
2.Right Click on any of the drives  C: ,D: ,E:, F:
3.Click on Properties, a new window will be opened

4.Select Tools tab and click on Defragment Now
5.Apply  Steps 1-4 on all drives

Step 3:  Removing Old Restore Points

1.Click on Start Menu
2.Right Click on My Computer
3.Select System Protection on Tasks panel
4.Uncheck all the drives and when you uncheck C: drive it will prompt  a message box asking you “Are you sure to Turn    Off  System Restore ?”   as shown below in the figure

 5.Click on Turn System Restore Off button
6.If you want the System Restore to be ON then repeat the steps 1-3 and check the boxes on the drives for which you want to restore.

Step 4: Clearing your Internet History Daily

This needs to be done daily because when you browse a webpage it will load the cookies and it will store in the cache memory of system drive. This is done so that when you again browse a page, browser doesn’t need to load the cookies from the web instead it loads it from your cache in order to have fast access. If you have faster internet connection speed then you need to follow these steps

1.Open Control Panel
2.Select Network and Internet
3.Select Internet Options a new window will be opened as shown below

4.Click on Delete button to delete browsing history, cookies, temporary files and saved passwords

Step 5: Removing unwanted Start Up services

1.Go to Run and Type “msconfig” without quotes a new window will be opened and select Startup tab as shown below

2.Uncheck all the checked items which you don’t want as your start up services
3.Click OK and will ask you to restart the system.

Step6:  Cleaning up the cache from time to time

1.Go to Run
2.Type “prefetch” without quotes
3.Select all the items and delete them
4.Repeat this  step6 whenever you feel that is system is slow, you can notice the difference in systems performance

After implementing step1- step6  Restart your system to apply the changes you have made to improve your system performance.

Well these are the six basic steps in improve system performance if you have any new tricks in improving system performance then feel free to comment us.

How manipulations done to improve disk performance using MFT (Master File Table)

How manipulations done to improve disk performance using MFT (Master File Table)
MFT (Master File Table) manipulations to improve disk performance:
Do you know NTFS occupies 12.5% of your free diskspace for MFT(Master File Table)?? Because of this reason it is highly recommended not to use NTFS format. MFT fragmentation causes signigicant slow down your disk. MFT utilization will be very high if you install tonnes of programs in your hard drive.Under such situation, it may be beneficial to increase this percentage to say 25%. There is small trick to do this. Open registry by going in start menu then run and then enter REGEDIT.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem. In right pane, Add one more key by the name “NtfsMftZoneReservation” with the REG_DWORD value of 2. DWORD value of 1 is interpreted as 12.5%, 2 as 25% and so on…..

How to improve shutdown time? or how to quick shutdown my system?

How to improve shutdown time? or how to quick shutdown my system?
I am having a tweak which can improve shutdown time of your system or it reduces the time xp waits before automatically closing any running programs when you give it the command to shutdown.
Well following steps will clearly explains you How to improve shutdown time of windows xp.

1)Click on Start and Select Run.
2)Type “REGEDIT” without quotes in RUN.
3)Now find this registry “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\”
4)select “WaitToKillAppTimeout”
5)Right click on the selected registry and select “Modify”
6)Change the value to ’1000′
7)Now click “OK”
8)Now select ‘HungAppTimeout’
9)Change this to “1000″
10)Now click OK.

Checkout one more method which is simple and some what trick then first method.
1)After opening this registry key “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\” find AutoEndTasks.
2)Default value always ZERO. change default value to 1. Your work has done completely.Further more you can reduce the time it takes for Windows to issue kill directive to all active/hung applications. While doing this method make sure constraint only exists in that HungAppTimeout is greater than WaitToKillAppTimeout. now change the value of WaitToKillAppTimeout to say 3500 (since default value for HungAppTimeout 5000 and for WaitToKillAppTimeout is 20000)…..