How to drastically speed up yout PC, and maintain that speed for the life of the system.

 This is a tutorial I made on how to clean up, tweak, and optimize you PC to make it run faster than when you first bought it and to help keep it that way. I will post pictures as soon as I get a chance to, unfortunatly as of right now I do not have the time.

Step 1 Download you drivers!

 Just to start off I am going to assume that it is common knowledge that you know you should keep your laptop/desktop clean and free of dust and dirt.

Ok, here we go kids lol.

Step 1:
   Hopefully you already know this info, if not find out exactly what you have in your system because we are going to need that information to download all of the latest and greatest drivers for it. If by chance you are having trouble finding out exactly what it is that is in your system go to www.lavalys.com:8081/everestultimate530.exe and download this nice little app called everest. It will give you all of the information that you neded. Once you have all of the drivers downloaded put them on some form of removable media like a cd or flash drive. We will need them again in a few.

Comments

[kidmosey]

I was afraid this was going to be another "defrag, empty recycle bin" howto - you actually give a few decent tips, though.

No need to reinstall windows, though; just cutting out unused services or setting them to delayed startup works wonders.

If you must use msconfig, keep in mind that it is intended as a diagnostic tool and should be used as such. I've fixed several computers brought in for service by simply undoing msconfig changes. And I've fixed several others by running windows update.

If you want to apply all msconfig changes, however, just delete the key 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig' in regedit.

[King825]

Good guide on reseting the system, but not good for those people who cannot afford to lose data of any kind.

Good, though.

[xbxhkz]

 Thank you, I had forgotten to post that you can use either an external hard drive or some other form of external storage to back up all of your data, or as mentioned in the instructable you can use some form of free online backup solution such as Dropbox, and Mozy.

Also, if you do happen to use an external drive for backup I highly recommend that after your complete this instructable you scan your external drive with Microsoft Security Essentials before transferring your files back to your fresh installation.