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