Faster Turn Off and Start Up your Computer

When you have Windows installed for several month or more it can become very slow. It's not only your programs run slower than usual but also Shut Down and Start Up time increases a lot. What you can do to make computer turn off and start up faster? One way is to reinstall windows or add more RAM but if you have many programs instaled which you need to use everyday, you can not afford to go with fresh Windows installation. Searching for drivers alone could cost you a half day. Buying RAM is good but also needs time and investment.

The easiest way to decrease up and down time for your computer is to use hibernate function. Off course you know about hibernating but do you really used it? You will be impressed with the results. It can take up to 2 or 3 minutes for old and stuffed computer to shut down but with hibernating you can leave your computer after 15-20 seconds. Starting up also takes much less time.

The main concept of hibernating is that computer saves all the information of working Windows OS to the hard drive and later only has to load already working Windows session. You can even watch DVD movie from the point where you left before hibernating.

How to use hibernation?

Press Start button and as usual select Turn of Computer. On the popup window press Shift and you will see that Standby button changes to Hibernate. Press it and you're done. Literally you can continue one session even a month if you never shut down your computer fully. But I suggest you to do so once in a while because sometimes one program can become unstable and you will load that error again and again, but if everything works fine you can hibernate as much as you want.

Hibernate your computer

Free Some RAM and bOOst Your Computer Speed

You start your computer and everything looks fine but after hour or so you notice that computer runs much slower than usually. This could be because of viruses or more likely (because in case of virus or trojan you must see immediate slow down shortly after restart) it can be some programs still uses your computer's RAM even when you close them.

Here's a nice trick to free up all available RAM and you should see speed performance in a matter of seconds. What is more this trick doesn't require any program to install and waste time to run it.

1. At first go to your desktop and right click on it. Select New->Shortcut

2. Copy this line to a pop up window

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

Press next and name like "Clean Memory" or something similar. Press finish.

Now you have a shortcut on your desktop which cleans all memory taken by IDLE programs. Double click it whenewer you feel your computer is going slower for no reason.