Posts under Performance tag.

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Fix: Windows 8 | 7 Hangs or Freezes

If you find that your Windows 8, Windows 7 or Windows Vista  is freezing or crashing randomly, the reasons could be many, and the solutions many too! Having your Windows computer freezing often can be really irritating. This post will just [...]

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Make Windows Startup, Run, Shutdown Faster

These tips will tell you how you can make Windows startup faster, and run & shutdown faster too. Actually, this was my first post I wrote on WinVistaClub.com for Windows Vista, a couple of years back – and was very popular, having received [...]

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Enable, Disable Disk Write Caching in Windows 7 | 8

Disk Write Caching is a feature that improves system performance by enabling write caching on the device. It is a feature, which is available on almost all  disk drives these days. The benefit of Disk Write Caching is that it allows [...]

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How to use Perfmon or Performance Monitor in Windows 7 | 8

The Reliability and Performance Monitor introduced in Windows Vista, is a good built-in tool that lets you monitor and study how applications you run affect your computer’s performance, both in real-time and by collecting log data for later analysis. In [...]

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Disable Accelerator Button in Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer Accelerators are specific add-ons running in Internet Explorer that help users complete a specific task in just few clicks. In short, they accelerate the browser performance or supplement it with extra features. It is  a great feature and [...]

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PerfView: Download Performance Analysis Tool from Microsoft

Microsoft has released the latest version of PerfView, that fixes minor bugs and adds support for Microsoft .NET 4.5. Microsoft has developed this tools for analysing and isolating CPU or Memory related performance issues for application developers. It will help you  [...]

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Fix: Internet Explorer High Memory Usage

Sometimes you may feel that your computer has hung or has frozen, when you are trying to open a webpage or even while browsing normally. This may either be a site problem or the problem could be high memory usage by [...]

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Does disabling Aero really improve performance in Windows 7?

Windows Aero, acronym for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, Open, is the graphical user interface, the module of Windows that processes the GUI and the default theme in most editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7, operating systems released by Microsoft.

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Analyze performance problems with Windows Performance Toolkit

Microsoft offers a set of utilities that it internally uses, to sniff out performance issues in Windows. These tools which Microsoft uses internally to detect and correct boot issues are freely available today  as a part of the Windows Performance [...]

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Troubleshoot performance issues in Windows 7

If you are facing performance issues like freezing quite often; or maybe  a  non responding program, and so on, then you can try a few of these suggested tips, that may help you resolve such issues.