Make window more fast

[Graham Bernard]

Hmmm…

Watching the YT Video I’ve just done my own research on this. And going to the “guts” of the advice:

Deleting Prefetch DATA Files.

Disabling Superfetch Prefetch – Pros/Cons for SSDs and Spinning Drives.

OK, I’m convinced that these 2 “tweaks” are for starting UP your PC, with the conditions above – read the links.

As this IS a Vegas Forum, and you’ve correctly asked the question, which I’m assuming you mean Vegas working faster, I don’t see how this would make Vegas work faster at all?

Thanks for the link to the YT video.

Grazie

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[Steve Rhoden]

Other than a hardware upgrade Thayalan, there isn’t a true way
to make windows 7 really faster.
Still you can try disable some of Windows Aero themes/features
in the Advanced System settings in the control panel…But as i said,
its not a true system increase performance.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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[Nigel O’neill]

Disabling your antivirus software for a PC that is not connected to the Internet is likely to yield a small performance improvement, but if you do this you must must must remember to re-enable it when connecting it to other devices and networks.

[Dave Osbun]

Go to Windows ‘Start’ prompt, type: MSCONFIG
When the system configuration window opens, click the ‘Startup’ tab.
UNCHECK everything that has a checkmark EXCEPT your antivirus/security software. Click ‘Apply’, then ‘OK’. Reboot.

If you had many items that had checkmarks, your computer should boot faster and run faster as well.

Dave

[Stephen Mann]

As Steve R said, hardware is the only way to really make Windows run faster. Most of the online suggestions for speeding up Windows really do make Windows run slightly faster. But you want Vegas to run faster and those tips won’t help much.

Clearing the %temp% and prefetch folders only slightly help Windows run faster, and only temporarily. They can’t hurt and likely won’t help.

Turning off unused processes is also marginally effective, and as you use the PC they will be turned on again as needed. Killing the processes do release some RAM (a few hundred bytes at most) and cuts a few CPU cycles out of the background, but they are background processes meaning that when Vegas is running, they aren’t.

If your editing PC is not on the net, as in unplugged, you don’t need anti-virus software.

Two things that really suck RAM and CPU even if you don’t run them are your browser and any Microsoft Office programs. Both preload when you start Windows so that when you do run them, they appear to start much faster than if they have to load everything from hard disk.

Here’s some tips I have collected that may help:

1) Turn off Aero: Right-click on the desktop and choose Personalize from the menu. Then scroll down and select a Basic theme.

2) Start, enter “Windows Features” and Uncheck “Tablet PC Components”.

3) Run cCleaner once in a while. (Google it).

4) Move your libraries to the HDD. In “Computer”, right-click on any library then click on “Properties”. In the window that opens, add a folder on your HDD, then select it as the default.

5) Disable unnecessary Windows settings that are not needed by SSD drives.

Drive Indexing speeds up file searches on HDD’s, but it just thrashes your SSD unnecessarily. From MyComputer, right-click your SSDdrive and select Properties. At the bottom, uncheck the box for “Allow files on this drive to have all contents indexed”.

Defrag also unnecessarily thrashes your SSD. From My Computer, right-click your SSD drive and select Properties. Select the Tools tab then hit “Defragment Now”. (We’re not actually going to defrag; it does nothing to improve performance of an SSD and it thrashes your drive for no reason. Select “Defragment Schedule” and uncheck any schedules that may have been set up.

Superfetch means that most commonly used files are stored to disk to be more quickly accessed later and Prefetch is a process that anticipates what data your program will want next. Neither of them work well and are constantly thrashing your drive. SSD users won’t see any change and HDD users might see programs take a second longer to load when fetch is turned off. But this starts with a Registry change:

Start, enter “Regedit” then find this key:
HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters

Now right-click both Superfetch and Prefetch and change their values to zero. You’ll need to do a restart for the changes to be saved because the Registry is in RAM and doesn’t get written back to disk until you shutdown the PC. When Windows restarts, go to Start and run “services.msc”. Find both the Superfetch and Windows search. Right-click on each and select “Properties”. Use their drop-down menus to set the Startup Type to “Disabled”.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Dave Osbun]

Turning off unused processes do not turn themselves back on when you restart the computer. If they are done by the method I outlined, they do not auto-start when the computer boots up. I have had users tell me that they computers were significantly faster by disabling the startup items. You’d be surprised at how many of these things ‘plant’ themselves in the system configuration menu. I’ve personally worked on systems that had over 30 services that started when the computer booted. These systems would sometimes take over 30 seconds to fully boot to the desktop (to the point where the hard drive is no longer active). After disabling these the computer would fully boot up in about 10-12 seconds. My personal system boots up completely in under 5 seconds, after it leaves the BIOS splash screen.

You can also run services.msc and ‘disable’ any service that you do not want running. It will stay disabled when the computer boots up.

Dave

[Stephen Mann]

Yes, disabling services makes WINDOWS boot and run faster, but it does practically nothing for the programs, like Vegas. There is a routine in the kernel that a programmer can call (sc.exe retrieves and sets control information about services) that can start disabled services.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Steve Rhoden]

Has to be Hardware based, no way around it!

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-461-9019

[Thayalan Paramasawam]

Hi Sir,

(Graham Bernard )And going to the “guts” of the advice:

Deleting Prefetch DATA Files.

Disabling Superfetch Prefetch – Pros/Cons for SSDs and Spinning Drives.

Thanks for the link but i will do some speed test on SVP

Thank You
Thayalan Paramasawam

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[Thayalan Paramasawam]

Hi everyone,

(Mr.Steve Rhoden)Still you can try disable some of Windows Aero themes/features in the Advanced System settings in the control panel.

Yes i done before…..Thanks Mr.Steve Rhoden

(Mr.Nigel O’Neill)Disabling your antivirus software for a PC that is not connected to the Internet is likely to yield a small performance improvement, but if you do this you must must must remember to re-enable it when connecting it to other devices and networks.

I never use any ANTIVIRUS programe except WINDOW DEFENDER provide by MICROSOFT because i use my working machine for editing only.i never use internet unless updating window.Any were THANKS YOU very much Mr.Nigel O’Neill for answering my question.

(Dave Osbun)UNCHECK everything that has a checkmark EXCEPT your antivirus/security software.

Yes i done it before,its make the window start up very fast.Thank You Mr.Dave.

(Stephen Mann)Here’s some tips I have collected that may help:

Thank you very much Mr.Stephen Mann,spend some time for collect information.

Thank you very much to all members,giving me tips.if have more tips.please post.

Thank You
Thayalan Paramasawam

System Details:
Custom Built
Motherboard – Asus M5A99X-EVO,HardDrive1 boot C:SSD Kingston,Processor – Amd FX 8350 4.0/4.2 GHZ,Ram – 16 GB,Graphic Card – Asus Gtx 650 1GB DDR 5,Blu Ray Writer – Plextor PX-B950SA,Operating System – Window 7 Pro 64 Bit and Editing Programe – Sony Vegas Pro 12