windows 7 tips and tweaks

does anyone know of any tips and tweaks that are proven for windows 7 ?

 

jep. don't touch it and use it's default setting.

same issue again and again...

the proven config is the one that is the default config.

 

thanks what about disableing everything in the start up

 

I remember tweaking vista a lot, but in Win7 i dont really see the reason.
I only disable some services, nothing big.

Thats up to you

 

everything that's not part of the os you can handle it yourself (itunes and it's services, apps that put stuff into autostart).

just don't mess with the os.

 

I found these in my bookmarks:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/8001/how-to-fix-the-10-biggest-windows-annoyances/

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/windows7_tips.htm

http://www.techradar.com/news/softw...al-free-apps-for-your-new-windows-7-pc-648954

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/24-best-free-windows-apps-from-microsoft-652166

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/12-free-windows-7-power-up-tools-612702

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/62-windows-7-tips-tricks-and-secrets-643861

 

and like with many others here.

Use the default settings for a while first before even contemplating tweaking anything. Most tips and tweaks are being taken over from the XP days that are pretty much irrelevant under Windows 7.

cheers ...

 

yeah, use it as it's thought to be used for at least 1 month straight. if you, by then, still think you need tweaks, up your system how ever you want.

but take a break from anything, use it as it's supposed to, experience how it's good that way, and maybe, afterwards, you don't care about touching it it, at all.

if you get a new car, you accept that all feels a bit different, you don't want to revert it back to behave like your old car. you learn to drive the new one, and use all the new features.

apply that to pcs/oses, and you gain much.

 

In services.msc,
I touched something like Windows Update to Manual and Workstation to Manual. Very safe because it's MANUAL instead of DISABLE.
Homegroup to Disable since I don't use it at all and I left Homegroup in the Control Panel too. The rest, I keep it at usual. It's bad to turn-off too many of them because some of them are critical for System.
Disabled UAC.

 

i dont believe i am gonna touch anything in the os except the annoying uac popup i am told it is like xp and just as fast as xp can anyone shed any light on that

 

none of those changes have any gains. as long as you don't put homegroup to use, workstation doesn't do anything. and windows update works without a flaw in it's default mode.
last one, no comment

edit: one comment, actually. in about a week, i'll have some free time. i'm considering coding up an app that allows one to easily define stuff at startup that pops up uac to auto-elevate. and, to define certain apps to auto-elevate. both without UAC popups. just because you freaks always disable it without any good reason..

don't touch uac. you got told? wow. i tell you, it's much better than xp.

 

Windows 7 stays fast, to my experience, unlike XP which tend to "rot" faster over time.. I dont know for sure though.
Either way, WIn7 is so much better on laptops than old windows xp.. Time to move on.

 

indeed. with xp, you had to tweak, or you failed. with win7, if you need to tweak, you failed..

i failed on one of my pcs had to tweak the with speedfan or something to get rid of the cpu whining.

 

for almost all users it works good out of the box. just pretty it up with themes, and move the sidebar to the left on a wide screen.
UAC is a personal thing and discussion is to be avoided in a thread thats not titled "should i turn off UAC?"
i have uac off and update off but thats just me. i have better things to do with my time than answer 'do you really want to install this?'

 

hmmmm speaking of tips and tweaks..... I remember a tip that I read up somewhere on a pc magazine or something or whatever that unchecking the drive indexing in your Computers folder helps the stupid CPU from running mad on idle.... is this true? like does it actually help? or not really?

thanks

 

Sigh, yes, it does--however, the indexing of the drive is only really an issue when you've just added a ton of files.

For example, let's say you back up your system, install Windows 7 from scratch, and then restore the files (documents, photos, music).

Windows will index those files during idle times, and you will notice it if you are watching for it, but once it completes the the index is only updated when you add or remove files--and that is such a minimal use of system resources the benefits far outweigh the negatives.

So, dump the files on your computer before going to bed and let it index that first night and you will never notice it again.

 

indexising is an old flag set for xp based environments. the indexing service isn't used anymore.

indexing has nothing to do with windows search, which is used by now. and that has it's config saved in an own place, not on the file itself.

 

I think he means Windows Search

 

unsure. if people talk about "turning off indexing on the drive" (and later cry about certain files couldn't get accessed), then it definitely is the indexing which is checked in the properties of a disk/file/folder. this still exists and will most likely be removed in win8, as in win7, they scan all users for what components are still somewhen used. the ones that arent will be removed in the next version of windows, removing bloat.

and windows search shouldn't be disabled. it never hurts (or never should), and is much better than just filename based searches.