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Originally Posted by Rathji
Try running CCleaner from www.piriform.com
Otherwise, depending on your current system specs, your best chance for improved performance, in order of cost are: OS re-install, RAM upgrade, OS Upgrade, CPU/Motherboard Upgrade and, Computer Upgrade |
CCleaner is a joke. Removing old/unused registry entries will not have any effect on your machine's performance, other than to potentially mess things up. The registry is a binary tree structure represented via a memory-mapped file; it doesn't take any longer to get to any registry entry dependent on size. It's actually quite efficient.
Defragmenting is often a waste of time too. Check out a sample of what using these tools does for you here:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/2-effec...mance-windows/
A whopping 4% increase.
Defragging your pagefile is another great myth. How do you know that performance isn't better with a fragmented pagefile, which would statistically increase the odds of a pagefile request being nearer wherever the head is currently located?
Ultimately, you should be asking yourself why you are restarting your computer so often in the first place. Use hibernation or sleep. Windows is plenty stable enough these days to go days/weeks/months without a reboot. You could probably get by rebooting only every patch Tuesday.
If you can't go that long between reboots, something else is wrong besides slow startup, and that's what you need to focus your attention on.