How To Drastically Improve Your Windows System Performance Using msconfig

This small tutorial would help you drastically improve your system performance . A lot of people always keep saying that their system is slowing down and it takes a lot of time to boot up and it also responds slowly at times . Well one common thing i've noticed with all these people is that they load their computer with TOOOOOOOOOOO much software . SOme of them they barely use , some of them they didnt even know was on their computer . It's always good to have the basic minimal software installed in your pc so that it runs quickly and responds fast . Now one of the most simple and effective ways to improve your system performance apart from removing junk software is by using the msconfig tool in windows to uncheck certain programs which need not startup when windows starts up. So here's a small tutorial on this :

What happens in most cases is that most of the applications that you install , be it winamp, yahoo messenger,quicktime ,adobe etc etc etc All of them if you notice get launched automatically as soon as your computer boots . Im sure you'd notice the quicktime icon in the taskbar or even yahoo messenger popping up when windows loads . Now all of this and many more programs are launched when windows starts up . Now you definetly dont need all of these programs to startup when windows starts up . You could launch them separately when you need to use them . So by allowing the programs to startup when windows starts up , you are slowing down your system as you have loads of softwares running at the background when you are not even using them . So the best thing to do is to tell windows not to launch these programs automatically when your system starts . SO that way you have a lot of free RAM and CPU resources to use . So here's how you do it :

Step 1 : Click on Start and click on RUN ( or just press the windows symbol + R )

Step 2 : Then type msconfig in the run box

Step 3 : You would now see a page similar to this

Step 4 : Now click on STARTUP
Step 5 : Now you should see a window similar to this , with loads of softwares which have tick mark to the left . This big list of softwares are the softwares which startup automatically when windows starts up

Step 6 : Now uncheck those softwares or applications which you dont need . For example : In the screenshot above i can uncheck winamp , quicktime , MSN messenger etc because i dont need them at startup . Dont get scared that you would screw up your system if you uncheck something important , incase something is not working after you unchecked some software, then just put the tick mark again the next time you boot .
Step 7 : Services like your antivirus software ( avg in this screenshot), any other drivers ( like asus drivers) etc should be left ticked as it is required for them to load at startup. Frankly speaking even if you uncheck all boxes and restart nothing will happen , your system would boot fine , infact it would boot real quick . So dont worry if you uncheck the wrong application , you could always tick it back the next time you boot.
Step 8 : Once your done unchecking the unwanted softwares . Click on Apply and Click on Close
Step 9 : You would then get an option to Restart Now Or Later . Thats your choice actually , but changes will take effect only after you restart.
Step 10 : Once rebooted , I'm sure it would make your system a lot lighter and a Lot more efficient!!