Speed up windows performance

[Scottonpc]

Changing the power options to performance does not speed up your pc. The only things I keep my pc fast is running ccleaner and defraggler regularly and running an antivirus scan often.

[Godlygamer23]

I very much agree with this. I currently have 2 1GB HDDs in raid0 and a 2GB one for storage and I see no need to get an SSD. It takes me like 20 seconds between pressing the power button and the windows being fully loaded, so I don't even have time to sit down before it's finished. I can't even remember the last time I had to wait for it to load.

Also, on the vast majority of the games I play/programs I use either I still have to wait for other to finish loading or the shorter loading time will make no difference anyway.

So, for something that would cost me about 10% of my entire computer it really doesn't do much. At most it'd save me like 10 seconds per day.

In the places that matter, SSDs are about 100x faster than hard drives.

[Canoas]

In the places that matter, SSDs are about 100x faster than hard drives.

And how much time do you actually save per day on average?

[Jire]

Changing the power options to performance does not speed up your pc. The only things I keep my pc fast is running ccleaner and defraggler regularly and running an antivirus scan often.

It gets rid of the underclocking stupidity that goes on in laptops.

[Tsuki]

19. is misunderstood. If you have a multi core processor, it will automatically use more than one core on boot. Enabling the option under msconfig is only setting a upper limit to how many cores are allowed to be used and will result in no performance benefit. 

 

thank you for mentioning this. drives me crazy how many people suggest this myth

 

multicore processors will automatically use the maximum number of cores by default.