Dunce Guide 5: Last Few Steps to Warp Speed!

This is the last part of the series on how to speed up of your computer. If you have followed the previous 4 Tips, your computer would be running at its near- perfect speed now. However there are still a few tricks that you need to learn in order to really say that you have an optimize system.

TIP 5: Turn of System Restore - System Restore is probably one of the greatest idea the Microsoft has came up with ever since they started to dominate the computer world. However the software that does it is not that great at all. At this point some people may not have an idea what system restore is. The best description of system restore is given by Microsoft itself wherein it says "Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking writes that each of us carries a personal measure of time dependent on our speed and position in the universe. When you find that your computer isn't working the way it should, you may also find that your personal measure of time has come to a complete stop, and that your productivity has disappeared into a black hole." In other words you can go back to a time you remember when your computer was still working properly. System restore is turned on by default for Windows program that have them. It's a great idea but it eats up a lot of resource therefore it must be turned off. You can turn of system restore by right clicking on my computer going to properties and clicking the system restore tab. You can then place a check on "Turn off system restore"

TIP 6 - Minimize the drain on your system resources in terms of visual and graphics . You can do this by the following:

a.) Deleting unused desktop icons - You probably have icons that you do not frequently use kept on your desktop. Other than the fact that it's an eye sore, it also eats up system resources as windows have only limited memory banks for on screen display. You only keep the icons you really need. The rest can be launched in the start menu.