Improve PC Performance without Hardware Upgrade

You are here: Home » PC Performance »  Posted on 10:17 am, October 26, 2013 by braint

Improving a computers performance without upgrading its hardware is very possible and it is neither expensive nor difficult. The reason to why the computers slowdown is due to spyware, viruses, temporary files, conflicts in software’s, residues of uninstalled trial downloads among others. There are steps in which a person can follow to improve the computers performance without one upgrading the hardware. The following steps will increase the computers performance drastically and assist a person in regaining sanity as well as saving one loads of cash. Even if ones computer is old may be three years of age and it is abit expensive to upgrade it, one can be able to use the following steps and the old computer will do some good for its owner at least for a couple more months or even longer.

First, one should be aware of the application or process they are running since this may be what slows down the system due to numerous programs operating at the same time. One can monitor the windows processes; by pressing CTRL

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Is Windows Performance Monitoring Good or Evil?

You are here: Home » PC Performance »  Posted on 10:16 pm, October 27, 2013 by braint

There are many performance counters in every version of Microsoft Windows that is based on the WinNT core (i.e., WinNT 4.0, Win 2000, XP and Vista). These counters continuously monitor system performance and deposit the findings in the Windows registry. When you start any performance monitoring tool of Windows XP, such as System Monitor, these values are retrieved by it and displayed in a systematic manner.

The problem with the arrangement is that if you never use any system performance monitoring tool, the information will still be saved in the registry continuously, which can consume some CPU resources. Unless you want to monitor your system performance frequently, this is nothing but wastage of resources. If you have a really slow PC lacking in resources, you may find that your PC will often slow down visibly when you try to perform certain memory-hungry tasks.

You can disable the constant monitoring of system resources and turn off all performance counters by using the following tweak in the Windows registry:

Click on the “Start” button, and then click on “Run”.Type “Regedit” in the box and click on OK.In the regedit window, expand the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE by clicking on the plus sign beside it.Expand the following keys one after another

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