How to make Windows 7 faster? Here are five simple steps to speed up Windows 7 PC. These methods are combined and extracted from thousands of cyber users’ experience and experiments to improve Windows 7 performance. In fact, when you are talking about how to speed up your PC, it usually means how to improve PC performance involving: short response time for a given task, fast networking, and high processing speed.

These following steps can be done by any Windows 7 users and not required extra technical knowledge. The implement runs with the normal usage order.


How to Speed up your PC

1. Removing the unwanted startup items

Press Windows+R on the keyboard to open Run box, and type msconfig in. Go to Startup tab and untick programs and services not required during the startup. The programs and services listed here start with Windows 7 every time. By removing them, we can reduce Windows 7 startup time. Do not remove any necessary start-up programs, which might cause the death of your Windows 7. If you cannot decide which program or service is unnecessary, please download Neptune SystemCare Ultimate, launch and go to Startup Manager under System Tuneup. It would help you distinguish the recommended programs and service that need disabled during startup.


2. Windows 7 Disk Clean up and Defragment

Deleting useless and temporary files on your Windows 7 disks reduces time to access the system and your files to make Windows 7 faster.

Cleanup: Right click on each disk, choose properties and press Disk Cleanup button. Next, you can select file types to delete and start clean up.

Defragment: Go to Properties of each disk, select defragmentation under tools and start. Defragmentation usually takes time a bit longer, which depends on the size of data.

If you have installed Neptune SystemCare Ultimate, go to System Cleaner and System Tuneup to clean and defrag the hard disks in two clicks.


3. Improving Network

If you mean a faster web page loading, you can clear the cache of the browsers. If you try to optimization the network configuration for faster speed, use System Optimizer in Neptune SystemCare Ultimate. Scroll down to the Network Speedup item, and select all the options and then click optimize.


4. Uninstalling the programs you do not use

Programs can be uninstalled from Programs and Features in Control Panel, or you can just type it in the search box from the start menu.

Some time we install programs for testing purpose or for a few time uses only. You should uninstall these useless programs from windows 7 PC for better speed. Even if you are not using these programs but some services and system files of these programs load in the background. Complete uninstallation of these unwanted programs on your PC helps to improve system performance.


5. Making shutdown faster

You can make Windows 7 shut down quicker by rewriting the value of a registry key, which might causes data loss if do-it-yourself, so it is not recommended that you do it on your own. Use Neptune SystemCare Ultimate’s registry cleaner to do that with one click.