How to Optimize your PC for Best Performance Tip 2012

Clean Your PREFETCH to Improve Performance ::



This is a unique technique for WinXP. We know that it is necessary to scrub registry and TEMP files for Win9X/ME/2000 periodically.Prefetch is a new and very useful technique in Windows XP. However, after using XP some time, the prefetch directory can get full of junk and obsolete links in the Prefetch catalog, which can slow down your computer noticeably.

• Go to Run, type prefetch and press enter.
• Delete those junk and obsolete files,and reboot.

Clean Your %TEMP% to Improve Performance ::

• Go to Run, type %temp% and press enter.
• Delete those junk and obsolete files,and reboot.

Clean Your TEMP to Improve Performance ::

• Go to Run, type temp and press enter.
• Delete those junk and obsolete files,and reboot.

(It is recommended that you do this every month)


Easy enough tweak to usually find out about it on your own, but still, some of us still don't find it right away. So here it is:

1. Start > right-click on My Computer and select Properties.
2. Click on the "Advanced" tab.
3. See the "Performance" section? Click "Settings".
4. Disable the following:

• Fade or slide menus into view

• Fade or slide ToolTips into view

• Fade out menu items after clicking

• Show Shadows under menus

• Slide open combo boxes

• Slide taskbar buttons

• Use a background image for each folder type

• Use common tasks in folders

There, now Windows will still look nice and perform faster.