99 ways to an amazingly faster computer

Whoah.. to those who want to optimize their computer speed.. there are 99 ways to get a faster console performance 🙂 see below

1-a. Go to  http://gadgetbenchmark.com to know the exact value/speed of each of your cpu, video card & hardisk.

1. Defragment your computer hard disk using free tools like SmartDefrag.

2. You should also defragment your Windows pagefile and registry.

3. Clean up hard drive disk space being taken up by temporary files, the recycle bin, hibernation and more. You can also use a tool like TreeSize to determine what is taking up space on your hard drive.

4. Load up Windows faster by using Startup Delayer, a free program that will speed up the boot time of Windows by delaying the startup of programs.

5. Speaking of startup programs, many of them are useless and can be turned off. Use the MSCONFIG utility to disable startup programs.

6. By default, the size of the paging file is controlled by Windows, which can cause defragmentation. Also, the paging file should be on a different hard drive or partition than the boot partition. Read here on the rules for best paging file performance.

7. In Windows XP and Vista, the Windows Search indexing service is turned on for all local hard drives. Turning off indexing is a simple way to increase performance.

8. If you don’t care about all the fancy visual effects in Windows, you can turn them off by going to Performance Options.

9. You can optimize the Windows boot time using a free program called Bootvis from Microsoft.

10. Clean your registry by removing broken shortcuts, missing shared DLLs, invalid paths, invalid installer references and more. Read about the 10 best and free registry cleaners.

11. One of the main reasons why PC’s are slow is because of spyware. There are many programs to remove spyware including Ad-Aware, Giant Antispyware, SUPERAntiSpyware, and more.

12. If you have a deeper spyware infection that is very hard to remove, you can use HijackThis to remove spyware.

13. Remove unwanted pre-installed software (aka junk software) from your new PC using PC Decrapifier.

14. Disable unnecessary Windows services, settings, and programs that slow down your computer.

15. Tweak Windows XP and tweak Windows Vista settings using free programs

16. Disable UAC (User Account Control) in Windows Vista

17. Tweak your mouse settings so that you can copy and paste faster, scroll faster, navigate quickly while browsing and more. Read here to learn how to tweak your mouse.

18. Delete temporary and unused files on your computer using a free program like CCleaner. It can also fix issues with your registry.

19. Delete your Internet browsing history, temporary Internet files, cookies to free up disk space. Continue reading

gadgetbenchmark.com updates!

Updates with our project http://gadgetbenchmark.com/

The website is now in beta version, you can now check on the central processing unit, video card processor and hard drive installed in your computer.

So how did we calculate or what is the basis or where did we get the data of each peripheral (computer parts)?

We used softwares such as passmark, novabench, 3dmark, PC-wizard and finally come up a database where users will be able to use as reference when buying new set of computer. Continue reading

gadgetbenchmark.com

New project of team artsdigitalmedia.com (January 2011)…

This website (http://gadgetbenchmark.com) will help guide from tech geeks and novice computer user, fore mostly the buyers to know the value of the computer/laptop they wish to buy. This is in terms of computer specifications/parts, by which this website will tell (by evaluation, using accurate algorithm through one by one computer parts benchmarking) how much is the value and the actual speed of any particular computer setup.

So, watch out for this very useful website…