Over the years, the Windows operating system has acquired a huge number of myths and legends. People do not get tired to look for magic recipes acceleration system, and, oddly enough, from time to time finds them. No, not all of them are equally useless, some even frankly harmful. So it's time to figure out which recipes for configuring Windows are a complete fallacy.
Constant cleaning of temporary files increases the speed
Yes, periodic run Ccleaner or other similar tools frees up disk space and in some very advanced cases can speed up your system. However, if you do it every day, the permanent destruction of the cache programs such as browsers, actually slows down their work, rather than accelerating. So clean the system, of course, necessary, but not too often, and without fanaticism.
ReadyBoost technology accelerates modern computers
Windows still offers enable ReadyBoost whenever you insert a USB flash drive or memory card. On modern machines, this makes no sense - ReadyBoost will have no effect if you have at least 1 GB of RAM. In that case, if you are using a very old computer with the amount of RAM to 512 MB, the ReadyBoost can help a bit. Otherwise, do not worry.
Manual defragmentation
In Windows 98, users had to manually open the defragmentation utility, and wait until it finishes its work. Modern versions of Windows can automatically produce file system defragmentation at the time when the computer is idle. So, if you from the past remained the habit once a week to run this procedure, it is time to forget about it. The more that come to replace SSDs do not know what it is.
Disabling the swap file to increase performance
Oh, how marvelous recipes were created in connection with the famous pagefile.sys!
Many people think a compelling argument that if your computer has sufficient RAM, the swap file does not need and only interferes with the operation of the system. However, this is not quite true.
If you have little RAM, the system actively uses the swap file to store the necessary data quickly. And if you have a lot of memory, the system does not use the pagefile.sys and he did not interfere with work. However, if the same will come a time when you are to score all the memory, then swapping very handy. So there is no reason to touch him, especially since no positive effect on performance is not provided, and winning several gigabytes with modern disk size has great value.
Enabling CPU cores in MSConfig
Some websites claim that Windows is not optimally distributes the load between all processor cores, or you can speed up boot time by activating all the cores of your processor. They direct you to the appropriate setting MSConfig, where you really can choose the option that appears to increase the number of cores used.
In fact, Windows always uses the maximum possible number of processor cores. Do not select this check box. It's just an option needed for debugging, which allows you to limit the number of cores, but not vice versa.
Clear Data Prefetcher to speed up system startup
Prefetcher - an operating system component that stores data on the use of various files and can pre-load the memory required items as needed. Some of the advanced geeks say that the service is completely unnecessary and only interferes with the operation of the system. It is strange that questioned the development of a whole team of different specialists Microsoft, but, nevertheless, many believe them.
If you remove all trace files from a folder % SystemRoot% \ Prefetch
or disable related Prefetcher Service Scheduler, then nothing but bugs and brakes, you will not get a result. Windows itself quite well to cope with the management of these services and any external intervention only leads to poor performance.
Disabling QoS service network to increase the speed of the Internet
Some people wrongly believe that the service QoS always reserves a certain amount of bandwidth and this significantly limits the speed of your network connection. This is not true. In fact, 100% of your channel, as a rule, available to all applications, as long as any program does not want to use QoS. However, even in this case it will not have a significant impact on the work of the network, as highlighted bandwidth will be immediately refunded back to other programs as soon as it is no longer needed. Tests have shown that disabling QoS does not gain in speed.
Disabling or run on-demand system services
Yes, indeed, there was a moment when the weight off Windows services could have some impact on its performance. It was in the days when computers were rather weak compared with the current, and Vista but has shown the wonders of gluttony. Since then, the average parameters of the processors and memory in user systems nearly doubled, and Windows 7 and 8 look much more optimized.
So today most people do not have any reason to gnaw at the pathetic Windows megabytes of memory, losing this time and at the risk of difficult to forecast problems. Moreover, the inclusion of "download on demand" may even slow down your work, because you have to wait even start right this or that program services.
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We all want to believe in miracles and expect that there is somewhere a magic recipe that will speed up your system. But in fact, in most cases it is not so. The most effective way to get a qualitative leap in performance - this is to upgrade, while the myths listed in this article are not even spent time on them.