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Speeding Up Your Computer

Here is several cool tips that will speed up your computer even further by increasing the performance of your applications.

To do so, you will be working with the many different parts of the operating system that affect the speed of your applications. The amount of memory the system has, how the system is using that memory, the location of the files on the hard disk, and system performance-enhancing features are all factors that influence the performance of your applications.

This tutorial will guide you through the steps of optimizing all of these factors so that your system will be running in top shape.

In this tutorial:

  1. Working with the Windows Prefetcher
  2. The registry to optimize the Prefetcher
  3. Accelerate specific applications with prefetch
  4. Using the Intel Application Accelerator
  5. How well does the Intel Application Accelerator work?
  6. How to install Intel Application Accelerator
  7. Fine-Tuning the Windows Paging File
  8. Disabling the paging file
  9. Adjusting the size of the paging file
  10. Changing the location of the paging file
  11. Defragmenting Your Drive
  12. Defragmenting the NTFS master file table
  13. Adjusting Your Application Priorities
  14. Using Task Manager to adjust priorities
  15. Starting applications with a user set priority
  16. Using WinTasks to profile your priorities
  17. Speeding Up Your Network
  18. Disabling unneeded protocols
  19. Disabling a specific protocol
  20. Calculating settings for CableNut
  21. Using CableNut to adjust settings