Comments on: Tweak Windows 7

By: sykogee

sykogee — Mon, 31 May 2010 08:43:41 +0000

I think Dennis Purdy means explorer.exe not cmd.exe

By: Jun Sabayjun

Jun Sabayjun — Tue, 25 May 2010 09:40:56 +0000

Great tip Dennis Purdy. Been using your technique since i switched to 7.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:08:03 +0000

Bloatware is a kind of software that usually comes preinstalled with a new computer and that you have no use for. It will just drain your computer’s resources for nothing.

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:48:02 +0000

Everyone talks about deleting Bloatware, but how do I know which items are actually Bloatware?

By: Evita Rascon

Evita Rascon — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 06:52:29 +0000

Hey, been following your website for a long time. I operate a related journal but I keep getting a great deal of spam responses, how can you keep your blog page so clean?

By: admin

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:03:02 +0000

Nice! Thank you for the feedback, Dennis Purdy!

By: Dennis Purdy

Dennis Purdy — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:55:30 +0000

Like the other Windows titles, Microsoft has designed the OS to slow with time. Here are some of my optimizations
I use a SSD primary, leaving a small secondary partition on the SSD. Presently it is a 9 gig partition about 75 percent used.
The first thing I do is make a copy of the cmd.exe from the Windows/system32 directory to the empty partition then edit the environmental variable for comspec to point to the copy. Every window requires its own copy of the cmd.exe to run, meaning it is the first thing loaded when you open a new window. But Microsoft places the cmd.exe in one of the largest 3rd level directories in the largest second level directory making finding it a relatively lengthy task when the computer is new, and a horribly long task after you have grown those two directories by installing more software.
Second thing I do is turn off the automatic control of virtual memory in a advanced performance options and then take all the virtual memory and put it on the SSD setting it as managed by windows. This keeps the Virtual memory from getting fragmented all over the c: drive which it would. And defragmenting never defragments the virtual memory. The virtual memory will also work faster if all located on the SSD.
You can reduce the size of the SSD necessary if you add a fast SATA drive and install programs that you use only occasionally there, rather than on the SSD. I do however keep antivirus and browser software if nothing else installed on the ssd.