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How to Make My Windows 8 Computer Run Faster and Faster

Feel your Windows 8 computer running too slowly either because you have installed too much software or other possible reasons? Want to speed up your Windows 8 for better usage experience? Small strategies make your Windows 8 computer run as it is new. Adopt the following top tips to make your Windows 8 computer run faster and faster.

Tip 1: Clean up the Registry

Once the Windows components and applications run, they will generate effects on the registry directly. Then there will be thousands of invalid or damaged items in the affected registry. In return, the speed of your Windows 8 computer will be slowed down. So you should keep daily maintenance of the registry on your Windows 8 computer.
Countermeasure: Get yourself certain registry clean up tool.

Tip 2: Disable Unnecessary Animations.

Windows 8 allows you to personalize your Windows 8 computer to enhance user interface by setting various animation effects, but these display effects require a substantial amount of CPU. Thus you can choose to turn off some of those unnecessary animations.
1. Press Windows + R keys simultaneously to open Run box, type in sysdm.cpl and press Enter key to open System Properties dialogue box.
2. Click Advanced tab and then click Settings button under Performance.

system properties

3. Disable the unnecessary animations according to your own preferences.

Performance options

4. Click OK or Apply to save all the changes.

Tip 3: Turn off Windows Services Run in Background

1. Open Charms bar and click on Search button, type services.msc to open Services window to modify its properties.
2. Right click on the service you don’t want it run automatically, select Properties item and change its Startup type from Automatic to Manual.

Services

3. Click OK button to save all the changes.

Tip 4: Remove Unnecessary Windows Startup Programs

Windows 8 allows users to manage startup projects from Task Manager to limit basic startup programs and thus your Windows will run faster. You can manage your Windows 8 startup projects only by following the simple steps.
Press Ctrl + Alt + Del keys simultaneously and select Task Manager.
Click Startup tab in Task Manager window and you will see the list of all startup programs.
Right click on the target program and select Disable item to remove it.

Task manager

Tip 5: Optimize Hard Disk Drive

The more you use your Windows 8, the more fragments may be generated, which will slow down your Windows 8 computer. Defragging and optimizing of your drives is well worth practice to speed up your Windows 8.
1. Press Windows + C keys or move mouse cursor to the upper/lower right corner to bring out Charms sidebar and click Search icon.
2. Type Defragment in the Search box and you will get a result from Settings. Click on the result.
3. Click on the target disk and then click Optimize button to optimize your hard drives into good conditions.

Optimize drives

Tip 6: Eliminate Unwanted Folder Features

1. Open Computer. In Computer window, click on View tab and then click on Options small icon.

View computer

2. In Folder Options window, click View tab and remove the tick besides the following check boxes.
Display file size information in folder tips;
Hide empty drives in Computer folder;

Hide extensions for known file types;
Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color;
Show popup description for folder and desktop items.

folder options

3. Click Apply button to save the changes.

Tip 7: Check and Repair Bad Disk Sectors

1. Open Computer. Right click on your drives and select Properties item.

Select Properties item

2. In Properties window, Click Tools tab and click Check button to error checking your drive.

3. Click Scan drive to find any errors. When errors are found, you can choose to fix them.

error checking

When you tried these optimization tips, the performance of your Windows 8 should be improved obviously. Besides the above introduced 7 small tips, there are many other strategies you can explore to make your Windows 8 computer run faster.