Ok, I REALLY suck at making Walkthroughs, so bare with me here. I have heard from a lot of bros that their computers have problems with running things and things lag like hell, I'm atm, using a computer with a celeron 2.8ghz With a cache of 128kb. An integrated video card with 96mb, and a Hard drive that can only store 80gb of data running winXp
Now, before i start, this guide is built on everything Ihave done throughout my years of working with computers, why i know it works, why you should do it, and why you might not.
Index:
BLUE = New topic area
Red = Helpful hints
Note = yellow
Basic services and Startup:
So the first thing we will be editing is what slows down you computer as it start up, and that would be the startup programs, Mind you, Ill be writing this guide as though your a complete idiot in the ways of defining anything the computer may through at you, may it be jumbled puzzle of letters the company uses to refer to its file or the simple ending of a file with Exe.
Steps:
1) click your start menu
2) Click on Run
3) Click in the box and type msconfig
4) Press enter on the keyboard
5) After a window pops up look up at the tabs, click on services
6) Click the little box in the bottom that says, Hide all Microsoft services, we want a tick in that box.
7) Skim through these services, do you need them? Do you know what they are? Anything you know and you can start on your own untick in its box, these slow down the system.
8} Click on the next tab called Startup, Dont worry, i know it looks scary as hell if your clueless as to what this is. These my friend are all the things that start while your computer is starting up, half of them you see in your taskbar on the right, the other half are background applications. *Fun Fact: Viruses love entering their own startup code here, so by memorizing or writing down all the startup things you know are needed and yours you can safely assume that its safe to untick it, if it isnt a virus and its just one of your lately installed programs you can go back and untick it, or be wise and just start the program whenever you really need it.*
*Fun Fact: Their is a FREE tool from IObit Its called Advanced system care, it is very computer friendly and it does roughly everything ive said so far, and everything i will say, for those of you who want to learn how to do this, continue on, for those of you too lazy here is a link to the program.*
Your Central Processing Unit and you:
Now, i know some of you are thinking, "Fuufufuf, 2.8ghz processor nub that awesome." Here is the one reason your right.... And the avalanche of why you are wrong. First is first, A Your Central Processing Unit, Aka Your Cpu, has two things you need to know about it, what they govern and which is better.
For starters, The 2.8ghz you see right there... Thats the "clock rate or clock speed" This is how fast a program can run, or in other words be processed. Now hold on, this is only half the story, but most sales men will try and con you into getting a highly priced processor that actually lacks that kick in it. The other thing you need to know is the cache, each processor has a cache, its like a ram chip built into the processor, it works faster, the information doesnt need to be sent to the ram and it governs over most important data that needs to be done before the shit thats stored on the ram, In other words, your ram is the old man in the wheelchair and your cache is the 8yo who just had too much sugar.
So for example, My processor, the celeron 2.8ghz and 128 L1 cache, sucks, Why? The limiting factor, the cache. Although i can run normal apps just as fast as any other persons laptop, i cant run memory intensive apps, cause then it would get laggy and slow.
Anyway, your processor dedicates both cache and its effort into running dozens of background applications, with these applications off... I hope you guessed this, YOUR COMPUTERS WILL RUN FASTER.
So, what can you do to make your computer stress less on your cpu? Well, we covered part of that in the last section, now to know whats killing your processor, i want you to do the following.
1) right click your task bar
2) Click on task manager "Note: If its not their Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete"
3) Click the processes tab
4) click on the tab called CPU untill the apps are sorted in descending order of CPU usage. "Note: In general there will always be a task called system idle process or standby, or idle, although you cant mess with those in general stay away from them in case in your system they are for some reason unlocked."
5) Ignore everything under the username of System
6) everything listed under your username is most probably unneeded and if you do need it you can start it again from wherever you have it installed, anything under local service i usually kill, and Network services are ALWAYS ignored, unless you want to be internet sober untill someone computer literate reopens that service for you on the computer.
7) If you click on memory usuage while you have nothing running besides taskmanager and a browser, almost all services cost you less than 5k-19k each, together this is a lot, and if you have anything running above 100k that you dont know of, take its name, do a google search, find out if its a program you use.
8} If the program you searched is something you use and your currently working with, leave it alone, if it isnt, right click and click end task.
"Hint: Script kiddies who infect you computer with a hidden keylogger usually never think about hiding the process from task manager, if you think you have a keylogger, check task manager for unusual things, search them, if its a keylogger, search for where its installed, research how it works, make fake send fake info through the keylogger telling the spy that you've caught onto his game, usually the email\ftp server\ip of the spy is listed somewhere within the keyloggers settings, finding it goes from easy to hard depending on the variety of the keylogger. Send him a message with his info that you gathered, you can ether report him to whoever you want and maybe if your sadistic, scare him into thinking you'll sue for invasion of privacy or some shit like that."
*To be Continued*
Now, before i start, this guide is built on everything Ihave done throughout my years of working with computers, why i know it works, why you should do it, and why you might not.
Index:
BLUE = New topic area
Red = Helpful hints
Note = yellow
Basic services and Startup:
So the first thing we will be editing is what slows down you computer as it start up, and that would be the startup programs, Mind you, Ill be writing this guide as though your a complete idiot in the ways of defining anything the computer may through at you, may it be jumbled puzzle of letters the company uses to refer to its file or the simple ending of a file with Exe.
Steps:
1) click your start menu
2) Click on Run
3) Click in the box and type msconfig
4) Press enter on the keyboard
5) After a window pops up look up at the tabs, click on services
6) Click the little box in the bottom that says, Hide all Microsoft services, we want a tick in that box.
7) Skim through these services, do you need them? Do you know what they are? Anything you know and you can start on your own untick in its box, these slow down the system.
8} Click on the next tab called Startup, Dont worry, i know it looks scary as hell if your clueless as to what this is. These my friend are all the things that start while your computer is starting up, half of them you see in your taskbar on the right, the other half are background applications. *Fun Fact: Viruses love entering their own startup code here, so by memorizing or writing down all the startup things you know are needed and yours you can safely assume that its safe to untick it, if it isnt a virus and its just one of your lately installed programs you can go back and untick it, or be wise and just start the program whenever you really need it.*
*Fun Fact: Their is a FREE tool from IObit Its called Advanced system care, it is very computer friendly and it does roughly everything ive said so far, and everything i will say, for those of you who want to learn how to do this, continue on, for those of you too lazy here is a link to the program.*
Your Central Processing Unit and you:
Now, i know some of you are thinking, "Fuufufuf, 2.8ghz processor nub that awesome." Here is the one reason your right.... And the avalanche of why you are wrong. First is first, A Your Central Processing Unit, Aka Your Cpu, has two things you need to know about it, what they govern and which is better.
For starters, The 2.8ghz you see right there... Thats the "clock rate or clock speed" This is how fast a program can run, or in other words be processed. Now hold on, this is only half the story, but most sales men will try and con you into getting a highly priced processor that actually lacks that kick in it. The other thing you need to know is the cache, each processor has a cache, its like a ram chip built into the processor, it works faster, the information doesnt need to be sent to the ram and it governs over most important data that needs to be done before the shit thats stored on the ram, In other words, your ram is the old man in the wheelchair and your cache is the 8yo who just had too much sugar.
So for example, My processor, the celeron 2.8ghz and 128 L1 cache, sucks, Why? The limiting factor, the cache. Although i can run normal apps just as fast as any other persons laptop, i cant run memory intensive apps, cause then it would get laggy and slow.
Anyway, your processor dedicates both cache and its effort into running dozens of background applications, with these applications off... I hope you guessed this, YOUR COMPUTERS WILL RUN FASTER.
So, what can you do to make your computer stress less on your cpu? Well, we covered part of that in the last section, now to know whats killing your processor, i want you to do the following.
1) right click your task bar
2) Click on task manager "Note: If its not their Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete"
3) Click the processes tab
4) click on the tab called CPU untill the apps are sorted in descending order of CPU usage. "Note: In general there will always be a task called system idle process or standby, or idle, although you cant mess with those in general stay away from them in case in your system they are for some reason unlocked."
5) Ignore everything under the username of System
6) everything listed under your username is most probably unneeded and if you do need it you can start it again from wherever you have it installed, anything under local service i usually kill, and Network services are ALWAYS ignored, unless you want to be internet sober untill someone computer literate reopens that service for you on the computer.
7) If you click on memory usuage while you have nothing running besides taskmanager and a browser, almost all services cost you less than 5k-19k each, together this is a lot, and if you have anything running above 100k that you dont know of, take its name, do a google search, find out if its a program you use.
8} If the program you searched is something you use and your currently working with, leave it alone, if it isnt, right click and click end task.
"Hint: Script kiddies who infect you computer with a hidden keylogger usually never think about hiding the process from task manager, if you think you have a keylogger, check task manager for unusual things, search them, if its a keylogger, search for where its installed, research how it works, make fake send fake info through the keylogger telling the spy that you've caught onto his game, usually the email\ftp server\ip of the spy is listed somewhere within the keyloggers settings, finding it goes from easy to hard depending on the variety of the keylogger. Send him a message with his info that you gathered, you can ether report him to whoever you want and maybe if your sadistic, scare him into thinking you'll sue for invasion of privacy or some shit like that."
*To be Continued*
The post was edited 1 time, last by ShatteredSoul: Typos, smilies in place of numbers. Misc. ().