How To Make Windows 7 Faster and Responsive by 2X

These days most of the computer system’s come up with loads of ram installed. 2GB is the minimum memory which people are currently asking for. Windows 7 is a much faster and stable operatingsystem that the previous ones. But windows will use only a definite amount of memory even if we have much more than that. Whats the remaining memory is kept as such? Keeping the programs in the memory will make the sytem much more faster and responsive as there wont be a need to search the data in the slow hard drive. Windows 7 doesn’t allow to set an custom size for the file system cache. One of our readers suggested a great tip to make windows 7 use more ram and thereby making your system much more faster and responsive than before. This tweak will also work for Windows Vista. So here’s how we apply the tweak to in windows 7.

Click Start and type in “cmd” and you will see the command prompt icon.

Right Click the cmd icon and choose “Run as Administrator“.

Now in the command prompt windows type in the following command.

fsutil behavior set memoryusage 2

Now restart windows 7.

Using the following query will give you the current value.

fsutil behavior query memoryusage

Always make sure you have sufficient amount of ram 2GB or more before performing this tweak.

Most Useful Windows 7 Registry Tweaks for Speeding Up Windows 7

Every windows user will be using a lot of tweaks these days for speeding up their system. I am sure all will be waiting for the Registry tweaks for the newly born Windows 7 operating system. Here are some registry tweaks that can be safely applied after its installation or later. I am sure these tweaks can speed up Windows 7.
First of all i will tell what all changes will be made after applying the tweaks.

• Hanged programs will be terminated quickly.ie. Automatically it will end tasks of programs that are taking longer to respond.
• Menus will be shown very faster. When you pause on the main menus the sub menus will be shown up very fast than normal.
• You will get an option ” Take Ownership” when you right click on files or folders. This will become handy when you want to replace system files while doing customization.
• Make windows not to search for a program that no longer exist when you click on the shortcut there by saving your valuable time.
• Adds “Copy To” and “Move To” options in the right click context menu of Windows 7. So from now on copying and moving files from one place to another will be more easier than before.
• Directly opens up the Files list when you choose “Open With” option there by deactivating the ” search onInternet ” option.
• Speeds up the navigation in Windows Explorer by disabling searching for network printers and scheduled tasks on network.
• Disables the annoying “low disk space” message notification in your system tray.

Download Registry Tweaks For Windows 7

Restart your system after applying these registry tweaks to take effect. You will also get a small speed increase in Windows 7

Useful Tweaks & Ways To Speed Up Firefox 4

Firefox 4 is on the way and the beta version has been released for the testing purpose. The new version 4 of the most popular browser is stunning in looks and performance. Here are some tweaks and ways which can be used to Speed Up Firefox 4.

#1) Performance tweaks for firefox 4 to increase the browsing speed

Type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar and proceed by pressing the I’ll be careful, I promise button. Now in the filter field type in the following values one by one and set its value accordingly. For eg, typenetwork.http.pipelining, you will see the corresponding value appearing below, double clicking it will set the value to true or false and if its some thing which has a value to be set, a popup window appears where you could enter the value for the field.

network.http.pipelining => true
network.http.proxy.pipelining => true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests => 12
content.notify.backoffcount => 5
plugin.expose_full_path => true
ui.submenuDelay => 0
network.dns.disableIPv6 => truejavascript.options.jit.chrome => true
javascript.options.jit.content => true

If any of the above value doesn’t appear, then follow the steps below.

For a setting with true or false value. For eg, if you don’t see the value being displayed below while typingcontent.notify.backoffcount on the filter field just right click on an empty space and select Boolean from New. Typecontent.notify.ontimer in the box and set its value to true.

The same is applicable if you are setting a integer value, except that you need to select Integer from the right click menu.

#2) Speeding Up Firefox 4 by cleaning up the SQL Data base

Firefox uses a my sql database where various values and entries are being stored during its usage. With time this get accumulated like unwanted registry entries left behind after an uninstallation in windows. So its necessary to clean thefirefox 4 database once in a while.

• For this, Press Ctrl + Shift + J in your firefox browser. You would see the error console window being displayed.
• Click inside the code field and paste the following code and press on Evaluate.

  Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection.executeSimpleSQL(“VACUUM”);

  
• Firefox will now freeze for some time and will be back to normal.

#3) Keyboard Shortcuts for Firefox 4

In one of my earlier posts I have created a list of 20 useful keyboard Shortcut for browsers to enhance your browsing experience and speed up your work. Check those out.

#4) Addons to browse faster on Firefox 4

Adblock Plus extension will block the advertisements you see on various websites and there by making things easier to read and enhancing your browser experience.