So lets start The Ultimate Guide to Speed up Windows 8.
Special attention has been given by the Windows 8 team for making Windows 8
faster than the previous operating systems.
Although Windows 8 is quite better in terms of speed than
Windows, but there is always space to make the things better. Therefore, I'm
going to share useful tips of the
Windows 8 to let you enjoy Windows 8 smoothly without any unwanted delay.
Make Windows 8 Start
up faster by removing unwanted programs and services from startup
To do this type ‘ msconfig‘ in Run or Search box, go to
Startup tab and uncheck programs and services not required during start up. The
programs and services listed here start with Windows 8 every time so by
removing them we can reduce Windows 8 startup time. Do not remove any necessary
startup programs.
Speed up Windows Startup
Windows 8 saves its state while shutting down and when you
turn it on later, it gets back to the same status. This consumes a lot of
resources.
First Navigate to
Control Panel. Under Power button
settings option, choose the option for When I press the power button as Do
nothing.
Below you will find
the Shutdown settings section, where you need to enable the Turn on fast
startup (recommended) option.
MouseHoverTime:
MouseHoverTime is a Windows 8 registry attribute that makes
you compute the time that your system takes to display a pop-up menu. Now you
can simply speed up your mouse hovering processes to get the things done as
soon as you want. Here’s how you can do it:
Open Windows 8 Search using Windows button + Q. Enter
“regedit” to search for registry.
Now browse through HKEY_CURRENT_USER --> Control Panel
--> Mouse. Search for the property
MouseHoverTime and simply right click it.
“Choose Modify”.
You can change the time by entering “Value data” option that
ranges from 0-20. The unit of time is in milliseconds to show information
whenever you hover your mouse pointer over a specific menu.
Finally, click “OK”
button and restart your system.
Increase Virtual Memory ( Paging File)
Windows 8 consumes more memory than Windows XP but lesser
than Windows 8. If you are a heavy computer user who open more programs and
windows then you can increase Virtual Memory of Windows 8.
Virtual memory works
with physical memory ( RAM). Hard disk
space will be used as virtual memory to keep temporary information which very
rarely use by programs and OS. By increasing Virtual memory in Windows 8 computer
make sure programs and OS work smoothly.
Right Click on My Computer, select Properties. Go to
Advanced tab and click on setting button under ‘Performance’.
Go to Advanced tab in next window, press change button under
virtual memory.
Here you can see the current virtual memory size. Virtual
memory called ‘paging file’ also.
In next screen under custom size enter size you want to
allocate for virtual memory (paging file). It depends on your hard disk size
and physical memory. Make sure it’s not
less than system recommended size. Normally recommended paging file is 1.5 of
physical RAM. In this example recommended size of virtual memory is 4605MB
because my windows 8 RAM is 3GB. So, enter 4605MB in Initial size and Maximum
Size fields. Press Set button, you may need to restart computer.
MenuShowDelay:
Presenting you another Windows 8 registry named
MenuShowDelay which sets the time while you point your mouse pointer to prompt
items of a menu. The property is by default set as 400 but you can easily
change this value matching your suitability.
Press Windows +Q to search for “regedit” menu of your
system.
Browse through the tree on the left pane to look for
MenuShowDelay at this location HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Control Panel >
Desktop. Right click this property and choose “Modify”.
Now you will see a “Value Data” option which usually ranges
from 0-20. This is the time expressed in milliseconds that is required to
invoke the items of a particular menu.
Click “OK” and
restart your system to finally see the changes made.
Change the Power Plan To Maximum
Performance
Double click
the ” Power Options ” in the Control panel and Click the down arrow showing ”
Show Additional Plans ” to see the ” High Performance ” power plan. Now just
activate the ” High Performance ” plan and that’s it.
You may go for the
advanced settings for further tweaking if you want.
The Power settings in Windows 8 is not automatically set for
maximum performance. By default the power plan in Windows 8 is set for a
balanced performance with energy consumption on hardware. So you may not get
the optimal performance from windows 8 if this is the case. So we need to
change the power plan to High Performance Mode.
Disable Visual
Effects
Again if you are not an appearance lover of Windows 8 then
disable visual effects. It will reduce the load on RAM and VGA.
In same settings tab under performance , go to Visual
effects and set for Adjust best performance.
It will bring all visual effects to very standard level, but to better
performance.
Defragment disks
Defragmentation helps to improve access time for each file
by managing free space and arranging
file locations on disks. It’s recommended to run defragmentation tool very
frequently especially when you have lot of data. In our case after deleting
unwanted files by disk cleanup in previous step run defragmentation now.
Go to Properties of each disk, select defragmentation under
tools and start. Defragmentation takes time depends on size of partition and
data.
Windows 8 Disk Clean up
Remove unwanted and temporary files on your Windows 8 disks.
It reduces access time on system and your files to make Windows 8 faster.
Right click on each disk, go to properties and press Disk
Cleanup button. In next screen you can select file types to delete and start
clean up.
Hope you liked the latest edition to our stream of posts
detailing interesting Windows 8 hacks
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