50 Tips How To Improve, Re-Set, Maximise Your Personal Computer/Desktop Performances & Easily Set Up And Re-Set Computer Speed. Thus Reducing Power Usage. 1. Convert file system: If you are using the FAT32 file system, convert to NT file system or NTFS. Among other things, NTFS is more stable and has a better transaction history - handy for recovering lost files in disk failures. Go to Start> All Programs> Accessories> Command Prompt and enter: convert c:/fs:ntfs 2. Disable file indexing This updates the names of your files so you can search faster. Unless you search for files often, it is unnecessary and takes up lots of memory. To disable it, go to Control Panel> Add/Remove Windows Components and uncheck Indexing Services. 3. Re-set priorities Get your computer to allocate more resources to the programs that you want to run quickly. Go to Task Manager by right clicking on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. In the Process Tap, right click on the program you want to speed up, and set the priority to High. 4. Reduce eye candy If you don't have lots of memory, return to the simpler Windows 98/2000 style display. Go to Control Panel> Performance and Maintenance. Go to System, select the Advance tab> Performance, and choose Best Performance. You'll be presented with the Classic view. 5. Stop hibernation Never set your PC to the hibernation mode - it takes up too much disk space. Disable it by going to Control Panel> Performance and Maintenance> Power Options> Hibernate. Uncheck Enable hibernation. 6. Improve memory performance Keep your data in memory, rather than in paging files, for faster access. To do this, run "regedit" from Start Menu, and look for the following entry: HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management. Double click on DisablePagingExecutive and set a decimal value of 1. Also double click on LargeSystemCache and change the decimal value to 1. The OS kernel now runs in memory for better performance. 7. Auto-delete temporary forlder Temporary files take up space, and can lead to more fragmentation that impedes disk performance. Run gpedit.misc from the Start Menu. Then choose computer Configuration> Administrative Templates> Windows Components> Terminal Services> Temporary Folder. Right click on Do Not Delete Temp Folder Upon Exit, choose Properties and disable. 8. Clean up your hard disk For a leaner machine, run Disk Cleanup under Programs> Accessories> System Tools. The program mops up redundant files that may be clogging the system. 9. Turn off automatic updating Free up memory and CPU power manually. To turn off auto updates, go to Control Panel> Performance and Maintenance> System. Choose Turn Off Automatic Updating. 10. Remove recent file list Go to Control Panel> Taskbar and Start Menu Properties, click on the Start Menu tap, then the Customise button. Click on the Advance tab and uncheck the List My Most Recently Opened Documents Box.