speed improvement

[johnyb98]

Hello everybody.

 

I would like your opinion/advice on the problem (not complete problem) I have.

It's about speed improvement on Windows 7 on laptop, but without h/w upgrade nor format.

From my whole knowledge, a speed improvement could help:

a. HDD defragmentation 

b. disable some applications from running at startup

 

What is your opinion on all this?

Does it worth an effort?

If I have an improvement, about how much % will the speed be improved?

Is there something that I do not have in mind (a. and b.) that I could do and will give me the result I want?

 

Thank you for your time!

[Electronics Wizardy]

Run the defrag no reason not to. You can have it run in the background every few weeks. 

 

I'd get rid of stuff you don't use and need getting rid of background apps can really speed it up. It's worth the time. 

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

Defrag, Use CCleaner but really that's about it, having dealt with low performance PCs all my life i know no software improvement can make that much difference if the hardware part of the PC isn't that good in the first.

[johnyb98]

Thank you for the replies!