Is your Windows running abnormally slow?

Intended for: all kind of users


Since ancient times (1994, when my first PC appears at home) a question was around my head: why Windows lost performance in time?

Today I know the answer to that question: Windows registry and the trash that user's often install (me included) with nosense services are the root of this problem.

Windows Registry is the basement of the operating system. To clarify the concept, is a big database that contains information of all installed applications inside the system, moreover contains information about processes and services in the system. The advantage of having all stored in the same place is that everyone knows where to find; the problem is that the access to the registry started to be slow when the data stored volume is big... Whe started to have clues, am I wrong?

What is th first solution to that problem? Is simple: reinstall Windows. This is the optimum solution but you have to take care when is reinstalled to not install again useless applications; in other way, you'll have soon the same problem. Moreover, before reinstalling you have to make a complete data backup, which is boring. This solution is recommended when the problem is very serious: machine takes three times than normal or worse in start than when we bought it.

When I was working in PC City (now Worten) I get other pretty good solutions (very profitable for them, its normal that they went wrong) always when the problen is not very big. For the Windows Registry cleanup there are several applications intended for maintenance of the machine too. The following are examples:

• CCleaner: only cleans the Windows registry and is intended for uninstall applications too. The advantage: completely free. Highly recommended.
• TuneUp Utilities: this is a complete suite to maintenance and optimize your PC. The problem? You have to pay for it. There is a trial version in their web and the price for the complete one is surrounding 30€. Highly recommended too for this and for the following explained.

Running services are the other part of the problem. Often applications install without advise Windows services which function is not very clear and used to be started when Windows starts by default. With suites such as TuneUp we can stop this processes without affect to the system stability, but there is a manual way to do this, a little bit more rude but with the same effect on Windows.

To manually stop services, the first thing to do is to click over the keys Windows+R.
Para la parada manual de servicios, lo primero que tenemos que hacer es pulsar la tecla Windows + R.

In the textbox, we have to type services.msc.

Right click over the services that we suspect are useless and select Properties tag.

We change the startup kind to Manual or Disabled. After that whe have to click over OK button and the window will be closed.

We have to repeat the previous process the times that we consider over all services that we think are completely useless. Just remember: don't touch any Microsoft service.

At the end, restart the machine and watch the effects of the changes.

In PC City, people pay about 30€ foreach service like that... I accept donations!

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