Frustrated by your slow PC? Optimize your computer with simple ways.

Is your computer performing as slowly as a snail paces? Is your computer filled with a lot of junk software? Is your computer full of loopholes? If yes, then optimize your computer. But now many users are no longer interested in system optimization. Many say that it does not make much difference before and after optimization. Is that true? In fact, in optimization, many important aspects are neglected. Following are the aspects:

Place “Shortcuts” in a correct way
In most cases, we run the software by its “shortcut". Many of you may like to place shortcuts on the desktop, which not only dazes your eyes, but also levels down system performance. So it’s best to place about 10 shortcuts on the desktop and others in Start Menu and Quick Launch Bar. Delete the “Uninstall” shortcut of all software to improve system performance. Also, do not duplicate shortcuts. This is a simple but effective way to speed up computers.

Caution "Security” software
Security software here refers to real-time anti-virus software and firewall. Such software consumes much of the system resources and CPU resources (some up to 30% or more). There is no need to use such software if you do not often access some junk sites. Not using such security software is much more practical and convenient than overclocking the CPU.

Set "icon cache” in a scientific way
Usually the default system icon cache is relatively large, which is kind of waste. So it’s necessary to make some adjustment to its value. With many system optimizers, we can check how much icon cache the system has used, and then set its value to about 2 times the actual value.

In addition, make the desktop background simple. It is recommended to set it to “None”. Some people even make a dynamic desktop background, which has no practical significance, but unstabilizes the system. After all, there are very little time when we are facing the desktop.

This is really helpful tips.

If your PC is running at a snail's pace, this is the least of your worries! This had some bearing on older systems, but modern systems do not experience much performance degradation. Keeping files and folders on the desktop may cause delays whenever the system redraws, but shortcuts have little effect at all.This is the most absurd and DANGEROUS piece of advice I've ever seen. The benefits of real-time system protection far outweigh the cost in resources regardless of what web sites you visit.This is just blatantly wrong. In most cases, INCREASING the size of the icon cache results in better performance. Whenever Windows displays a desktop or folder it must load each icon from the iconcache.db file. Since reading from RAM is much faster than reading from disk, Windows keeps a small cache of recently used icons in resident memory. Increasing the size of this cache results in less disk reads and that equates to better overall system performance.Again, this is outdated advice. Modern processors, RAM amounts, and video cards are more than capable of handling the nominal overhead large or dynamic desktop backgrounds.

Maybe you should leave this kind of thing to the Windows Guru.