In my experience, it's been successful in catching bad stuff while not significantly degrading system performance itself. How much RAM do you have? Is your system consuming all or most of your RAM? Does the system page out to disk? If so, you're suffering a massive performance hit, which can be solved by adding more memory to your PC. Greg Shultz explains how to do this by using Resource Monitor.
Solid state is all the rage these days, and with good reason. It's fast! More and more laptops and even desktops are moving to the technology because of the performance benefits. Solid state disks use memory cells from which data can be read very quickly, as opposed to the relatively plodding nature of rotational storage. By moving to SSD, you can give your Windows 7 system renewed life -- and give yourself a whole new user experience.
But SSDs can be expensive, so you need to be smart about how to use them in the most cost-effective way. This one is easy! When you're plugged in, configure Windows 7's power plans to favor performance over power savings. When you choose to use Windows 7' high performance power plan, you might increase the computer's performance in some but not all circumstances. It really depends on the kind of work you're doing and how often you allow the computer to sit idle.
For more about how these plans operate, see Evaluate the efficiency of Windows 7 power plan settings. If you're using a traditional spinning disk in your Windows 7 system, you can keep your system operating at peak efficiency by periodically defragmenting the hard drive.
If, however, you've opted to go with SSD-based storage, don't do this. First, you won't get any performance benefit and second, you'll significantly reduce the life of that expensive SSD. Disk defragmentation is scheduled to take place once per week, but you can change this by going to Start Accessories System Tools Disk Defragmenter Figure D. In addition to changing the schedule, you can run an on-demand defrag from here.
You can also run a defrag from the command line instead of from a GUI. Bill Detwiler's video explains how. Windows 7's search is good, but it can also affect system performance. If you really need to run a tool at full tilt, you can disable indexing altogether.
Or you can tune the indexer to meet your specific needs , possibly reducing its overall impact on system performance. Perhaps you don't want to jump into the solid-state game right away but would like some of the benefit that can be had from flash-based storage.
Note that if you're already using an SSD as your system drive, ReadyBoost won't be available, since there would be no performance gain. ReadyBoost allows the system to make use of one of these speedy storage devices as a cache, improving overall performance of the system. The flash storage device that you choose to use for ReadyBoost should meet the following specifications set by Microsoft:. Here's another nice feature: If Windows doesn't think ReadyBoost will provide a performance gain, it will tell you and won't let you enable it.
However, Windows knows that the system disk is already fast enough, so ReadyBoost isn't available as an option. If you want to learn more about how to enable and configure ReadyBoost in your system, see Take a closer look at ReadyBoost features in Windows 7. Since , Scott Lowe has been providing technology solutions to a variety of organizations. Editor's Picks. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the. Was this reply helpful?
Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. I am a novice user of Windows 7, having had it on a new PC for less than a week. On Thursday evening it worked fine, on Friday the system clock started running 60 times too fast.
The minutes are changing every second, the hours less frequently i. It is playing havoc with the behaviour of the PC. I have to keep moving the mouse or the screen turns off and the keyboard takes every keystroke and repeats it twenty or thirty times.
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