Windows 7 is already super fast OS from Microsoft but it can be made more fast. Windows include some Services and Task Scheduler that automatically launch modules for specific tasks.
For example the Windows Installer Service is executed when you install some program made with Windows installer.
1. Set these Services to Manual
In the start search bar type services.msc and press enter.
To set any service to disable or manual, double click on any service and in start type list select the Manual or Disable
NOTE: Always set the service to MANUAL, never disable it, so that whenever Windows needs to start a service it can easily start and use it. If you set any service to DISABLED, Windows will not be able to start it and will give some error messages.
Here is a list of services that can be safely set to MANUAL:
Application Experience
Desktop Window Manager Session Manager (If you don’t use Aero theme)
Diagnostic Policy Service
IP Helper (For IPv6 network)
Offline Files
Print Spooler (If you don’t have Printer or use XPS printing)
Protected Storage
Secondary Logon (Only use if you have two users on your computer)
Security Center
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Themes (If you use Windows Classic theme)
Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service
Windows Time (If you don’t want to update system tray clock time using Internet)
2. Disable Some Tasks (Task Scheduler )
In the start search box type task scheduler to launch it.
On the left hand side expand Task Scheduler (Local) -> Task Scheduler Library -> Microsoft -> Windows. Now point to the following folders. When you click on a folder the tasks get loaded and then you will see a screen where different tasks will be showing. Right click and then disable them.
Folder ———————-> Task to Disable
Media Center ————— > mcupdate
MobilePC ————— > HotStart
Windows Media Sharing —- > UpdateLibrary
Other resources
Delete some Tasks to speed Vista
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Why are you telling people to ‘Delete’ the tasks for ? You are meant to ‘Disable’ them ! Also, 7 won’t allow you turn ‘Security Centre’ to manual. SC has to be on all the time from start up.
You can disable them also and I am changing the post on your request. You can disable security center but the Action Center is not disabled with this option.
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FYI … Task Scheduled Stuff
1) Go into task scheduler
2) In right-hand menu click “Display All Running Tasks”
3) Select each to turn them off
4) Go to bottom-middle pane (lists all “active” tasks)
5) double-click on each to get to a description of what they do
6) right-click and DISABLE ones you feel are useless (which is about 90% of them)
Out of all of it, I left the Windows Time Sync & GoogleUpdate (using Chrome) tasks still going. I disabled “Critical” ones, like Idle Registry Backup (usually runs every 10 days), because when you have System Restore going there’s no need to do registry backups (in my opinion).
Couple of notes …
1) If you click on stuff, and you no longer see descriptions of tasks, then go back to main screen and click “Refresh” in right-hand menu. This will refresh everything, and stuff will display again. This sometimes occurs when you try to tweak a task you don’t have permissions to.
2) Be SURE to tweak all User-Specific tasks before deleting that User’s account. I inherited a comp from someone with Win7 on it. I setup a new Admin account for myself and deleted theirs. Then I went in to disable tasks. I wasn’t able to disable the SPMUPLOAD… task, because it was specifically created with his old admin account. There’s supposedly some workaround where you can export the task as XML, alter the account name to be yours, then import the xml task back in. But I can’t find an import command in Task Scheduler. So I’m stuck with his old User Experience task running daily at 12pm even though I explicitly turned that Windows setting OFF. (Many of the OTHER tasks were also for User Experience data… if you turn it off, why are these tasks still set to run and waste time? Makes no sense.)
These tips are really helpful for making Windows 7 faster. Did you know you can also control the notifications and icons that show up in your taskbar? With Windows 7, you can finally disable those balloon notifications that bombard you with messages that aren’t usually important. See this post for a guide on how to control them- http://bit.ly/5IQSGv.
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