HomeThere are several ways to increase file and folder browsing when using any Windows operating system. Several are listed below:
Disable Auto-Network Search
Windows automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you open Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing significantly:
Open any Explorer Window, for example, “My Computer”. Click “Tools”, Select “Folder Options”. Click on the “View” tab. Uncheck the “Automatically search for network folders and printers” checkbox, Then click Apply, and OK. Afterwards, Reboot your PC.
Disable Indexing Service
This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don’t search your computer often, or even if you do search often, this system service is completely unnecessary, as it consumes significant amounts of resources.
To disable it, go to the Control Panel and click Add/Remove Programs. Click the Add/Remove Window Components. Simply unclick the Indexing services and click next. (For some systems only).
Disable Windows Superfetch
Vista’s new “SuperFetch” feature sure sounds great, and for some it works great. However, this is not the case for many Vista users. What it does is pre-load applications into RAM, incase you open the program, so it loads faster. Right off the bat, this sounds like a bad idea for those with average amounts of memory, doesn’t it?
If you’ve got ~4GB+ of RAM, keeping this on may benefit you. For everyone else, this wastes very valuable system memory, which can make your computer feel extremely sluggish. This is especially true for Games, such as MapleStory.
To disable it, go to start, and type “services.msc” in the Search bar, without the quotes. Scroll down ’till you find “Superfetch”, and double-click the service. Set the Startup type to “Disabled”, click “Stop”, followed by Apply & OK.
This will make Vista’s prefetching act much like Windows XP – Which was quite efficient & wasted little resources.
Decrease Menu Delay
This little tweak just makes your computer “Feel” faster. You don’t have to wait around a second after hovering your mouse over a menu before it shows. To enable this small tweak:
Go to Start then Run, Type ‘Regedit’ then click ‘Ok’. Navigate to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Control Panel>Desktop”, Select “MenuShowDelay” . Right click it, and select “Modify”. Reduce the number to around ~100. You can choose whatever suits you, though I personally favor very little delay. Finally, Reboot.
Increase Swapfile Performance
• XP
If you have more than 256MB of RAM this tweak will considerably improve your performance. It basically makes sure that your PC uses every last drop of memory (faster than swap file) before it starts using the swap file.
If you do NOT have more than 256MB of System RAM, DO NOT Enable this tweak!
Go to Start then Run, Type “msconfig” then ok.
Click on the System.ini tab, and Expand the 386enh tab by clicking on the “+” Sign.
Click on new then in the blank box type”ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 “, and Click OK.
Reboot your computer.
Speed up shutdowns
Open the registry editor (start>run>”regedit”, or type “regedit” in the search box of the start menu).
• XP Only
Navigate to HKEY_USERS>.DEFAULT>Control Panel>Desktop
Highlight the “WaitToKillAppTimeout” value.
Set it to 1000.
Now highlight the “HungAppTimeout” value.
Set it to 1000 as well.
(The above may be problematic if you don’t save your work before shutting down!)
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Control Panel>Desktop
Highlight the value “AutoEndTasks”
Change the value to 1.
• XP, Vista and 7
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SYSTEM>CurrentControlSet>Control , and locate “WaitToKillServiceTimeout”.
Default Value: WaitToKillServiceTimeout=20000
Modified value: WaitToKillServiceTimeout=5000 (noticable speed increase)
Modified value: WaitToKillServiceTimeout=1000 (extreme, use it at your own risk)
I found 3000 worked nicely, but try the 5000 first. 3000 does sometimes leave some programs lagging which then need a further key click.
Remember to make a complete registry backup before doing any of those, in any case if you want to restore them to their default values.
Harsh jani
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