Posts under Performance tag.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Generate System Health Report of your Windows 7 | 8 PC with Perfmon

Most of us take special care to keep our Windows operating system running in top condition. We may simply let our Windows carry out the scheduled automatic maintenance tasks or use some good freeware optimizer software. If you want to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Create your own Windows maintenance and optimization tool with dMaintenance

dMaintenance is yet another free tool that is designed to maintain your computer invisibly – but with a difference. You can create your own custom system tool. dMaintenance runs in background and automatically maintains your computer with its different tasks which are [...]

How To Optimize Windows 8 Performance by tweaking Visual Effects

Although Microsoft claims – and with justification too – that Windows 8 is the most optimized and fastest OS provided by them, there will always be tweak enthusiasts and power users who want to squeeze out the last drop of [...]

How to fix random computer freezes and reboots caused due to hardware problems

Maybe you are facing random computer freezes and reboots! In such cases we have to first find out if it’s a hardware specific problem or a software specific problem. Because system instability can be caused due to both these reasons. [...]

Windows 7 computer slow after SP1 upgrade due to high mscorsvw.exe CPU usage

The official release of Microsoft’s Windows 7 SP1, update was made available to all users via Windows Update or by using offline installer. While for most the upgrade went smoothly, some users ran into an embarrassing problem that their system [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

[Whitepaper] Microsoft Office 2010 Performance and Hardware requirements

Microsoft has released a whitepaper document which provides an overview of Office 2010 Performance and Hardware requirements and investments.

Identify programs, features, drivers slowing down a fast start up, shutdown or hibernation

If your Windows 7 or Windows 8 computer seems to shut down slowly or start up slowly, or if it doesn’t enter power-saving modes, it’s possible that a program or device driver is interfering with Windows power settings. You can [...]

Speed up Internet Explorer 9 by monitoring the add-ons performance

Internet Explorer 9 includes an Add-on Performance Advisor which lets you monitor the load time and performance of its add-ons and lets you disable them if you find that they are taking more time to load.

Fix: Duplicated data entries appear in the Performance Logs and Alerts in Windows 7

If you see that duplicated data entries are present in the Performance log, when you use the Performance Logs and Alerts service, to collect performance data in Windows Server 2008, in Windows Vista, in Windows 7, or in Windows Server [...]

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