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How do I make the windows ui/gui faster?

Anonymous
2014-06-15T16:58:00+00:00

I want to know how I can make the system favor ui responsiveness above all else, even if it means sacrificing the performance of other programs. I like to consider myself a power user, and will take what performance I can get, but I want the best aesthetics possible, I want to keep the aero glass interface but have it respond no matter what I have running. I have an acer aspire 7560 with 4gb ram, not enough money to get more, though I do have several sdHCs that I could use as swap if someone could figure out how I could do that. I don't tend to do heavy games, even though I do do a little gaming, I just want a computer that will light up the start button and make the buttons glow AS SOON AS I hover over them. I'm fine getting my hands dirty, though would like to avoid 3rd party programs if they are not all that well known as trust-able. Something that makes the system process the highest priority maybe? I don't know, I just know I want a very responsive system but all the eye candy, including animations. PS I have a 64 bit processor and integrated graphics (radeon)

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-06-16T14:56:41+00:00

    Go to Control Panel > Large icon view > System > Advanced System settings > Advanced tab > Performance > Settings.

    You should see the Windows 7 version of this (mine is Windows 8 but only the border is different).

    Uncheck fade and slide features first and see what difference it makes. If not enough, uncheck others. There is a relatively fine balance between looks and screen snappiness.

    There is no 3rd party software that will EVER make a PC run faster, despite claims. If you want a faster PC, you have to BUY one.. :-)

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-06-15T20:10:03+00:00

    I've used smart defrag by iobit for a while now, I've fully optimized and everything, my disk is currently at 0%fragmentation, I've used disk cleanup and emptied basically everything, I've done basically all the usual maintenance, I actually did a system reinstall about a week ago, I really want to change how my system deals with low memory situations, it functions perfectly after a clean boot, I just want to know how to keep it running like that in all situations.

    As far as game performance, disable your anti-virus before starting a "trusted" game (one not downloaded from a pirated website). What about using msconfig to keep some startup programs from running, have you tried that? Memory is what I finally used to fix my problem in the long term. You could use the swap for the short term. By SDHC you are talking about HD graphic capability SD cards right?

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-06-15T19:43:11+00:00

    also, I don't actually have an SSD, I have a 500gb hdd running at 5200rpm, not the fastest, but I have high speed sd cards for high speed swap space if I can figure out how

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-06-15T19:40:48+00:00

    I've used smart defrag by iobit for a while now, I've fully optimized and everything, my disk is currently at 0%fragmentation, I've used disk cleanup and emptied basically everything, I've done basically all the usual maintenance, I actually did a system reinstall about a week ago, I really want to change how my system deals with low memory situations, it functions perfectly after a clean boot, I just want to know how to keep it running like that in all situations.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-06-15T18:34:48+00:00

    I want to know how I can make the system favor ui responsiveness above all else, even if it means sacrificing the performance of other programs. I like to consider myself a power user, and will take what performance I can get, but I want the best aesthetics possible, I want to keep the aero glass interface but have it respond no matter what I have running. I have an acer aspire 7560 with 4gb ram, not enough money to get more, though I do have several sdHCs that I could use as swap if someone could figure out how I could do that. I don't tend to do heavy games, even though I do do a little gaming, I just want a computer that will light up the start button and make the buttons glow AS SOON AS I hover over them. I'm fine getting my hands dirty, though would like to avoid 3rd party programs if they are not all that well known as trust-able. Something that makes the system process the highest priority maybe? I don't know, I just know I want a very responsive system but all the eye candy, including animations. PS I have a 64 bit processor and integrated graphics (radeon)

    I used to have a similar computer lineup except my computer was an MSI computer specifically built for gaming. Some simple solutions to try would be: use disk cleanup and disk defragmenter to clean up your computers hard disk and organize it. I found that if I download large files often their is a lot of junk temporary files and internet files left over so disk clean up at least. Another option to perform would be to see your computers windows experience index. You left-click start->right click computer -> properties (left click). After this you should see a link called windows experience index which helps you to see how aero and your graphics performance is. If it is below 4.0 then you will start having poor experiences with the computer involving loading and graphics.

    Note: SSD's usually have a different mechanism for storing data so you do not need to defragment them if they are setup properly.  Here's a Maximum PC article on SSD drives that might help if you decide later to upgrade to a new computer and were wondering how to use them: http://www.maximumpc.com/supercharge_your_pc_ssd_2014

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