Click your hard disk drive and then click Defragment. Disk Defragmenter will work for at least several minutes, although it might take several hours. When prompted, click Close. Note: If you have more than one hard disk drive, repeat this process for each hard disk drive listed. On the General tab, click the Disk Cleanup button. Disk Cleanup will spend a few minutes examining your disk. The Disk Cleanup dialog box will appear. Select each of the check boxes in the Files to delete list and click OK.
When prompted, click Yes. Disk Cleanup will spend several minutes removing these files. Note: If you have more than one hard disk drive, repeat this process for each hard disk drive listed in My Computer.
In the section labeled Performance , click the Settings button to open the Performance Options window. Under the Visual Effects tab, select Adjust for best performance. The system could take a minute or so to make the adjustment and the screen may briefly go black and white during the process. After the process is complete, the Performance Options window will close.
Windows uses an index to perform fast searches of the most common files on your device. For more information, see Adjust indexing options. Microsoft Community for Windows XP. Microsoft support for Windows XP. Tap or click Search. Type appwiz. Tap or click Appwiz.
Restart your device. Click Start. Click Run. In the Start Search box, type appwiz. Close programs in the notification area running with startup If your device takes a long time to start up, one of the causes could be having a large number of startup apps or a few apps that have a high impact on startup time.
To stop a program that has one of these icons from automatically running on startup, follow these instructions: On the Start screen, tap or click Desktop image to see the icon tray. Point to each icon to see the program name. View Startup items To see what programs run at startup and disable any, follow these instructions: Press and hold or right-click in the blank area on Taskbar and select Task Manager. Change a program Sometimes, by adding or removing certain program options, you can prevent a program from running at startup.
To change the configuration of a program, follow these instructions: Swipe in from the right edge of the screen if using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen and move the mouse pointer down. Tap or click Apps. Clean up disk errors Over time, your device may create errors on its hard drive. To run Check Disk , follow these instructions: Swipe in from the right edge of the screen if using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen and move the mouse pointer down.
Type computer in the Search box. Tap or click Computer on the left side of your screen. Tap or click the Tools tab. You may need to restart your device after error checking is complete. To run Optimize Drives manually, follow these instructions: Swipe in from the right edge of the screen if using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen and move the mouse pointer down.
Tap or click Optimize. Notes Optimizing a drive can take anywhere from several minutes to several hours to finish, depending on the size of the drive and degree of optimization required. Network drives can't be optimized. To change the optimization schedule, follow these instructions: Swipe in from the right edge of the screen if using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen and move the mouse pointer down.
Select one of the following: To turn off scheduled optimization, clear the Run on a schedule check box. Tap or click OK. Clean your hard disk Disk Cleanup reduces the number of unnecessary files on your drives by deleting temporary files and system files, emptying the Recycle Bin, and removing a variety of other items that you may no longer need. To clean your hard disk, follow these instructions: Swipe in from the right edge of the screen if using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen and move the mouse pointer down.
Type free up disk space in the Search box. Tap or click Settings. In the message that appears, tap or click Delete files. To clean up system files associated with your account, follow these instructions: In the Drives list, tap or click the drive that you want to clean up and then tap or click OK. This tab includes two additional options for freeing up space: Programs and Features. Turn off visual effects If Windows is running slowly, you can speed it up by disabling certain visual effects.
To turn off visual effects, follow these instructions: Swipe in from the right edge of the screen if using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen and move the mouse pointer down. Type Performance Information and Tools in the Search box. Run fewer programs at the same time Sometimes you can improve system performance by changing your computing behavior.
Adjust indexing options Windows uses an index to perform very fast searches of the most common files on your device. Adjust power plan A power plan is a collection of hardware and system settings such as display, sleep, and so on that manages how your device uses power.
Microsoft community for Windows 8 Microsoft support for Windows 8. Close running programs in the notification area If your device takes a long time to start up, one of the causes could be having a large number of startup apps or a few apps that have a high impact on startup time. View the Start folder To see what programs run at startup and disable any, follow these instructions: Click Start.
Click All Programs. Click Startup. Use System Configuration System Configuration helps you identify programs that run at startup and discover programs that slowdown your device. To run System Configuration, follow these instructions: Click Start. Click Control Panel. Click System and Security. Click Administrative Tools. Change or uninstall a program Sometimes, by adding or removing certain program options, you can prevent a program from running at startup.
To change the configuration of a program, follow these instructions: Click Start. Click Programs. Click Programs and Features. To run Check Disk , follow these instructions: Click Start. Click Properties. Click the Tools tab. Click Check now under Error-checking. Defragment your hard disk Disk Defragmenter rearranges fragmented data so that your hard disk drive can work more efficiently.
To run Disk Defragmenter, follow these instructions: Click Start. Type disk defragmenter in the Search box and press Enter. Click Disk Defragmenter. Select the disk that you want to defragment under Current status. To clean your hard disk, follow these instructions: Click Start. Type disk cleanup in the Search box and press Enter. Click Disk Cleanup. In the message that appears, click Delete files.
Select any day with a failure or other event, and at the bottom of the screen you'll see details about those events, divided into categories. Pay attention to the details of each crash and failure. Look for patterns, such as if the same application frequently crashes. If so, uninstall it, or look for an update that fixes the problem. Finally, down at the very bottom of the screen click "View all problem reports.
It lets you scroll through your problems more quickly than in the normal view, because they're in a long, vertical list. Windows 8 includes a Performance Monitor tool that shows an immense amount of detail about a system's hardware and software. Unfortunately, its main interface is almost impossible to decipher. There is, however, one way to get some very useful information out of the Performance Monitor -- tell it to generate a detailed report for you that pinpoints system issues and suggests fixes.
You don't create the report directly from the Performance Monitor. Note that you might need Administrator rights to your PC to run the report. A screen appears telling you that a report is generated, and after a minute or two, an interactive report appears onscreen. The report can be lengthy, and goes into mind-numbing detail about your system. If you want to know about things such as your system's video classes and UDP information it's the place to go. Most useful are reports of errors or problems.
If it finds any, those will be at the very beginning of the report. For each error or problem, it describes the symptom and the cause, suggests how to fix it, and provides a link to other useful information. A common cause of system slowdowns is programs that load unnecessarily at startup and bog down your system.
There are several ways to speed up startup. A good place to start is the Task Manager. You've got several different ways to launch the Task Manager -- take your pick:. If you see the phrase "More details" at the bottom of the Task Manager screen, click it.
If you see the phrase "Fewer details" at the bottom of the screen, you're already in the right place. Now click the Startup tab. You'll see a list of programs and services that launch when you start Windows. For each one, you'll see its name, its publisher, whether it's enabled and the "startup impact" -- how much startup is slowed down by launching it. If you'd like to stop any of the programs or services from launching at startup, right-click it and select Disable. For more information, see the documentation supplied by that antispyware program.
If your device takes a long time to start up, one of the causes could be having a large number of startup apps or a few apps that have a high impact on startup time. Some of these programs add an icon to the notification area on the taskbar to show that they are running with startup.
To stop a program that has one of these icons from automatically running on startup, follow these instructions:. Disabling a program from running at startup doesn't stop the program from running if you need it. If you tap or select the program after startup, it will start and run normally. Sometimes, by adding or removing certain program options, you can prevent a program from running at startup.
If you can't stop the program from running on startup and the program does not have the option to change the configuration, you must talk to the program manufacturer for a solution. Over time, your device may create errors on its hard drive. These errors can slow your device. The Check Disk program identifies and cleans any errors. Swipe in from the right edge of the screen if using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen and move the mouse pointer down. Press and hold or right-click the drive you want to repair, and then tap or select Properties.
Under Error checking , tap or select Check. Depending upon the size of your hard disk, this may take several minutes. For best results, don't use your device for any other tasks while it's checking for errors.
But few registry keys remain as it is into the Registry of Windows computer. You can find and delete such Registry entries using CCleaner. You can enable, disable and optimize various Windows 8. Auto kill not responding tasks , Faster access to Start Menu , Wait to kill a program, and more registry tweaks.
After applying registry tweaks, you will notice an increase in windows 8, 8. Every program execution asks for the block of memory from the computer, and the computer allocates memory blocks in chunks. After closing the program these blocks get free and available for another program.
The free memory blocks are long and contiguous , by time and with use, these long and contiguous memories become fragmented into smaller and smaller pieces. That makes such memory blocks unavailable for further program execution. Defragmentation is a process of cleaning such fragmented memory block, and it is easy to do since windows provide an inbuilt tool, to perform defragmentation —. The defragmentation process may take time depending on the number of fragmented memory blocks.
Alternatively, you can perform this task using a more advanced tool by IObit called Smart Defrag. Do it, only if your PC has a mechanical hard disk. If your Windows 8. Directly land to the desktop whenever it starts the windows. Regularly update your windows to install the latest security and performance features. All points listed above are the ultimate tips to make Windows 8. After performing all the steps you have to restart the computer.
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