Disable Windows 7 Super. Fetch. Yesterday I explained about both Prefetch and Superfetch. ![]() Both Windows Vista and Windows 7 contains Superfetch since it is more advanced and uses more complex algorithm. Windows 7 Superfetch is in fact better than Vista’s, it doesn’t start caching instantly the moment you log in. It would wait a few minutes and then start loading the your system’s memory with the applications you use most often. In order to increase the performance of Windows 7, the priority of superfetch has been slightly reduced. We do not recommend disabling Super.
Fetch in Windows 7, but if you are a gamer who needs slightly more memory or just an advanced user who doesn’t need Super. Fetch, then you can disable it. The process is very straightforward, load the Services window by typing services. Start Search. Once open, locate the Super. Fetch key. Now double- click the Super. Fetch key and it will open the Properties dialog window. Here you can Disable it by changing the dropdown to Disabled. There is another interesting option called Automatic(Delayed Start), this will start superfetching after quite some time during startup. To stop superfetching immediately, hit the Stop button. Like I said above, this is not recommended but it might be helpful to someone looking to disable it. Performance Tuning of Windows. Mid- level notebook computers with limited RAM and slow HDD or SSD can be tweaked in order to run faster and make more RAM available to the web browser and other useful applications. This article explains how to speed up Windows on notebook computers, boost Windows performance, turn off unnecessary system services, and make your computer run faster. Intended audience of this article. This article is for people who install Windows and want to make it run faster. Optimization guide. Turn off Unnecessary Services. New users of Windows who came from Windows XP usually wonder. Windows always performs some disk I/O, even if the computer is idle. In order to disable them: Click Start, open Control Panel. ![]() Classic View. Open Administrative Tools, then. Services. You may click . Then click Stop. button and make sure Service status has turned to. Stopped, and finally click. OK at the bottom. Disable System Restore. Theoretically, System Restore feature is to make sure that software installations. InformationWeek.com: News, analysis and research for business technology professionals, plus peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. Engage with our community. In practice, it never works that way and just wasting disk space and I/O. My Computer (right click) - >. Properties - >. System Protection - >. System Restore. Un- check the checkbox for Local disk (C: ). Turn System Restore Off in confirmation window. OKDisable Updating of File Last Access Time. Each time you read any file, Windows updates its attributes (last access time. Such updates generate a lot of useless disk I/O. To disable this feature: Run command line (Start, Run .., type cmd). Type fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1 and press Enter. Faster Window Switching (Disable Minimize- Maximize Animation)Enter . But this feature really. So by disabling the Thumbnail Preview. Windows explorer can get some speed up. Double click on Computer icon on the desktop. Here are the latest articles published on Tom’s Hardware. See the latest news, reviews and roundups and access our tech archives.Organize drop- down menu. Folder and Search options. In the View tab, in Advanced settings. Always show icons, never thumbnails checkbox. Disable swap file or move it to separate harddisk. ![]() Computers with 4. GB or more RAM usually don't need swap file at all. If system partition (usually C: ) and swap file are located on different. Windows will work faster. Swap file settings in Windows are under Start. Control Panel. - > Classic View. System. - > Advanced system settings. Advanced tab. - > Performance groupbox. Settings.. Versions of Windows this article applies to. This article applies to all versions of Windows after Windows XP. Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and 8. Windows 1. 0 (both 3. Windows Server operating systems.
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