How to Speed Up Your Windows XP/Vista/7 Operating Systems in Few Minites

Through below simple guidelines, you can speed up your Windows systems and help keep it running smoothly.

1. Remove spyware, protect your Windows from viruses

In addition to privacy, spyware can hamper your PC performance. To combat spyware, you might consider using the PC safety scan from Windows Live OneCare. This scan is a free service that helps check for and remove viruses.

Download Microsoft Security Essentials for free to help guard your system in the future from viruses, spyware, adware, and other malicious software.

The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool is another utility that checks computers running Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 for infections by specific, prevalent malicious software, including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom, and helps remove any infection found. 

2. Free up disk space

The Disk Cleanup tool helps you to 

• Remove temporary Internet files.
• Delete downloaded program files.
• Empty the Recycle Bin.
• Remove Windows temporary files, such as error reports.
• Delete optional Windows components that you don’t use.
• Delete installed programs that you no longer use.
• Remove unused restore points and shadow copies from System Restore. 

3. Speed up access to data

Run Disk Defragmenter at regular intervals (weekly is optimal). When you add a large number of files, or your free disk space totals 15 percent or less, or you install new programs or a new version of the Windows operating system, you should run Disk Defragmenter to consolidate fragmented files and folders on your computer’s hard disk. 

4. Detect and repair disk errors

In addition to running Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter to optimize Windows performance, you can check the integrity of the files stored on your hard disk by running Acebyte Utilities which scans the hard drive for bad sectors and scans for file system errors to see whether certain files or folders are misplaced.

If you use your computer daily, you should run Acebyte Utilities once a week to help prevent data loss. 

5. Learn about ReadyBoost

If you’re using Windows 7 or Windows Vista, you can use ReadyBoost to speed up your system. It allows you to use non-volatile flash memory—like a USB flash drive or a memory card—to improve performance without adding additional memory. 

6.  Upgrade  to  Windows 7

If you try all the previous remedies and your computer still isn’t as fast as you would like it to be, you may want to consider updating to Windows 7.

If the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor determines that your computer can’t run Windows 7 and you still have the need for speed, it might be time for a new computer.