Lightning fast PC - in a few simple steps

People are always amazed when I start my PC in front of them, since I take my trusty laptop everywhere, either to do repairs for someone or just a little LAN gaming. So here are a few of my secrets that ANYBODY can use. Enjoy :-)

• Click start>run
• Type “msconfig” and press enter.
• In the resultant window go to the “Startup” tab.
• You will see a list of programs which also run when you boot your computer.
• All program boxes will be checked. Just uncheck all unnecessary or unwanted programs EXCEPT your antivirus. For obvious reasons.
• Click on apply and restart your computer. You will feel that your computer is faster than before.

Another trick to boot computer faster

• Right click on “My computer” and select “Manage”
• Click on “Device Manager”. You will see a list of hardware. If you are not using USB/COM ports, then disable them.
• Restart your Computer. It will give you much better performance on boot-up.

Disable autorun option of USB or CD/DVD drives

Many people know that when ever they plug in their USB drive into the USB port, automatically an auto play option gets executed. Similarly when they insert CD or DVD in drive, it also shows same option of auto run. Well as convenient as this feature is, it can become very dangerous for your computer because if your USB drive contains a virus then it gets executed along with auto run files(trust me, this is personal experience here). As a result your computer or operating system becomes slow. There is a trick to solve this problem. Just follow these steps:

• Click start menu and click on RUN.
• Type “GPEDIT.MSC” and press enter.
• Click on Computer Configuration, then click on “administrative templates”
• Now click on “system” and you will see a list on right side of the window.
• Search Line No. 16. (Turn Off Auto play)
• Double click on it and on the resultant window click on “enable”
• Select “All Drive” to disable all drives.
• Click on apply. Done.

Speed up your Menus After applying this trick you will feel faster speed of your menus. This tricks doesn’t really effect windows start-up or browsing speed though. It just effects your menus e.g start program menu, right click menu etc. To apply this trick simply follow these steps.

• Go to start menu and click on run
• Type “Regedit” and click “oK”. You will find registry editor window.
• Click on “HKEY CURRENT USER” then click on “CONTROL PANEL” and finally click on “DESKTOP” 
• You will see a list on right side and search for “Menushowdelay” 
• Double click or right click on “Menu Show Delay” to modify the value data.
  Change the value data of value name to “0” and click ok. 
• And you're done. Enjoy an excellent menu opening speed.

Note: You can adjust the value according to your requirements. Minimum value is “0” but normally you can use 50 to 150.

Feel like  a boss. Cheers, Sam