How to Improve Windows 7 Performance

The performance on Windows 7 has improved from Vista. In most of the time I am pretty happy with it on all my machines. But when it comes to my netbook, it seems a little short. Here are a few things I did to improve its speed, which seems to help.

1. Turn off transparency
2. Use ReadyBoot from a fast USB flash drive
3. Convert from FAT32 to NTFS
4. Reduce Startup Programs
5. Disable indexing services
• Application Management
• Clipbook
• Computer Browser
• Error Reporting Service
• HID Input Service
• Indexing Service
• Net Logon
• NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing
• Network Location Awareness (NLA)
• Network Provisioning Service
• Portable Media Serial Number Service
• QoS RSVP
• Remote Desktop Help Session Manager
• Remote Registry
• Secondary Logon (If you only have one user on your computer)
• TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Service
• Telnet
• Uninterruptable Power Supply
• WebClient
• Windows Time
• WMI Performance Adapter
6. Disable Performance Counters
7. Turn off Automatic Updates