Как ускорить загрузку и выключение Windows 7

Для того, чтобы результаты процедуры ускорения загрузки Windows 7 были как-то зафиксированы, то прежде, чем приступать к применению этого твика, следует измерить текущую скорость загрузки Windows 7 любым методом и записать полученные результаты.

Поскольку мы не будем на первом этапе использовать твикеры, и нам предстоит изменение параметров реестра, то рекомендую сделать текущую копию реестра и сохранить его.

Для запуска редактора реестра нажмите сочетание клавиш Win+R и введите regedit.

Для сохранения текущего состояния реестра выберите в главном меню Файл — Экспорт и сохраните файл под любым именем.

Для восстановления прежнего состояния реестра выберите в главном меню Файл — Импорт и укажите сохраненный файл.

И еще одно замечание: не уверены — не трогайте реестр! Если вам интересна эта тема — загрузка Windows 7 и способы ее ускорения, но вы совсем плохо ориентируетесь в понятиях, попробуйте проделать это с более грамотным товарищем.

Способ первый — автоматическое изменение параметров реестра.

1. Скачиваем REG файл с новыми параметрами реестра, распаковываем его (должен быть файл speedwin7.reg) и запускаем его (дважды кликаем на нем).

2. Перезагружаем компьютер и проверяем скорость загрузки. Сравниваем результаты. Например, у меня результаты измерения показали улучшение загрузки на 20 с.

Способ второй — изменение параметров вручную.

Этот способ может быть интересен тем, кто любит поэкспериментировать с параметрами. Поэтому объяснять здесь особо нечего, можно только дать определение изменяемых параметров.

Откройте файл новых параметров реестра, который вы скачали, откройте его в блокноте, выставляйте параметры, которые считаете нужными и сохраняйте файл. После этого запустите ваш REG файл и перезагрузите систему.

Содержимое REG файла и комментарии к параметрам.

NoLowDiskSpaceChecks = Отключение уведомлений о нехватки места на диске.

LinkResolveIgnoreLinkInfo = Отключает проверку сопоставления ярлыков программам ( Windows каждый раз при загрузке проверяет пути в ярлыках, которые находятся на рабочем столе и если не находит программу по пути, который указан в ярлыке начинает вести поиск программы, соответственнно на это тратится время)

NoResolveSearch = Запрещает Windows 7 искать целевое устройтво по его ярлыку.

NoResolveTrack = блокировка функциональных возможности системы Windows 7 по слежке NTFS, когда осуществляется поиск целевых файлов ярлыков;

NoInternetOpenWith = Указывает, следует ли использовать веб-службы Microsoft для поиска приложений, чтобы открыть файлы с необработанных файловыми ассоциациями.

AutoEndTasks = Автоматическое завершение зависших приложений

HungAppTimeout = указывается временной интервал, по окончании которого программа считается зависшей после того, как пользователь нажал кнопку завершения программы и программа в течении этого указанного времени не отвечает.

MenuShowDelay = временная задержка после того как пользователь щелкнул на меню Пуск

WaitToKillAppTimeout = Установка временного интервала ожидания не отвечающих программ при завершении работы операционной системы Windows 7. Если величина параметра AutoEndTasks, опиcаного выше, установлена в «1», то система завершает процесс автоматически.

LowLevelHooksTimeout = Время до завершения работы зависшей службы в Windows 7

WaitToKillServiceTimeout = Параметр отвечает за время, которое дается операционной системой всем сервисам для завершения их работы, прежде чем Windows 7 начнет завершать работу

Способ третий — использование специальных программ.

Программ — твикеров, которые позволяют оптимизировать систему за счет изменения параметров реестра — много, какие-то хуже, какие-то лучше. Уровень «хуже-лучше» определяется удобством интерфейса, уровнем автоматизации настроек и числом контролируемых параметров. Меня, например, вполне устраивают твикеры Auslogics BoostSpeed и TuneUp Utilities. Если вы не решились на игры с реестром, попробуйте воспользоваться одной из таких программ оптимизации и затем снова измерить скорость загрузки.

Другой класс специальных программ позволяет проанализировать список программ и служб, автоматически запускаемых во время старта системы. Это — авторан-менеджеры. Таких программ тоже множество, у них разные способы анализа автозагрузки. Попробуйте и подберите для себя что-либо!

13 Useful Windows 10 Registry Hacks to Optimize Your Experience

Windows Registry holds all the tweaks to customize your Windows experience and deal with little nuisances that Microsoft wrongly assumes every user will love. From changing the Windows design to unlocking hidden features, there are tweaks for everything. To help you improve your Windows 10 experience, here are a bunch of Windows 10 registry hacks worth trying.

Warning: messing with the registry could corrupt your Windows. It is recommended that you follow the instructions precisely and don’t mess around if you don’t know what you are doing. Just to be safe, create a backup of your registry before making any changes.

Accessing the Windows Registry

As all the tweaks require a trip to the Windows Registry, it is important to know how to access the Registry. Press the Win + R keys and type regedit in the “Run” dialog that opens. Click “OK” and the Windows Registry will open.

1. Increase Network Speeds

Many of the registry tweaks in the list will involve design or aesthetic changes that may make Windows 10 feel that much slick and better to you. But there’s also a whole trove of registry hacks designed to improve your Internet speeds.

If you’re having problems or experiencing packet loss, there are various things you can do, like increase your IRP Stack Size, enable TCP extensions, or increase the maximum number of ports available to various programs trying to connect to your router.

There are enough network speed tweaks in regedit that we have a whole list dedicated to it. If you’re mainly in the Registry Editor to improve your Internet speeds, then click on over.

2. Use Windows Photo Viewer Instead of Photos App

Everyone has at some point had problems with the Photos app in Windows 10. It’s no big secret. At the same time, the Windows Photo Viewer that we know from back in the Windows 7 days did the job very well, yet it was removed with a Windows 10 update some years ago.

The code for Photo Viewer is still there in Windows 10. You just need to create a fairly elaborate registry entry to unlock it. It’s a little different than your typical registry tweak, and we’ve created a guide for how to use the registry to make Windows Photo Viewer your default photo app in Windows 10.

3. Disable Windows 10 Lockscreen

The lock screen is a nice added layer of security on your Windows PC, requiring a password or PIN for you to log back in. If you feel secure in the security of your PC, you can turn the lock screen off altogether.

There are a couple of ways you can do this in Windows 10, one of which is through the registry editor. Here’s our guide on how to disable your Windows 10 lock screen through the registry.

4. Show Detailed Information on Startup

If your PC is experiencing slowdowns or inexplicable crashes, then you should make it your priority to diagnose what’s causing those problems. One possible way to do this is to set the Windows 10 startup to “Verbose Mode,” which will give you a much more detailed breakdown of the processes happening on your PC as you boot.

To activate this, go to the following registry key:

Next, right-click an empty space in the pane on the right, then select “New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value.”

Name the value “VerboseStatus,” right-click it, select Modify, and in the “Value data” box enter 1.

5. Open Last Active Window in Taskbar

Ever since Windows 7, open apps in the taskbar (or Start bar) have had their own icons, with each open window or instance of that app bundled under that one icon, and visible in thumbnails when you hover your mouse over the icon. This is designed to save space in your taskbar, and generally make things neater.

By default, when you click a taskbar icon for an open app, these thumbnails pop up, but you can make a registry tweak so that when you click a taskbar icon, the last active window of that app opens, which can save some time. Here’s how to do it.

6. Disable Shake to Minimize

The “Aero Shake” is a feature introduced in Windows 7 that lets you minimize windows by grabbing the one you want to keep open and “shaking” it. You may not have realized you even had this feature, but now that you know, you might not want it because it can sometimes minimize all your windows without you necessarily wanting that.

Shake to Minimize can also be a problem for people prone to hand tremors due to illness or other causes. If this describes you, click through for our guide on how to remove the “Shake to Minimize” feature.

7. Add Your Own Apps and Options to the Context Menu

The context menu is a fine thing, but to really take control of it, you can create registry keys to add specific apps or Windows features to it. The exact way to do this will depend on what you want to add to the context menu. We have registry hacks for adding “Check for Updates” to the context menu, for example, or adding the “Defrag” option to your context menu.

We also created a guide showing you how to add an “Open with Notepad” option to the context menu, though really you can replace Notepad in this guide with any other app on your PC.

8. Change Windows Apps and Settings to “Dark Mode”

The debate of whether reading white writing on a dark background or dark writing on a light background is healthier rages on, but if you’re in the first camp, then you can use the registry to activate Dark Mode across Windows.

9. Remove the Windows 10 Action Center Sidebar

Windows 10 Action Center Sidebar offers handy quick access buttons and notifications. However, if you find these buttons to be unnecessary and are not comfortable with the sidebar taking up half the screen when you open it, you can simply disable it.

There are a couple of ways to do this, including the trusty registry, so click on through for our guide on how to remove the Windows 10 Action Center altogether.

10. Remove the OneDrive Button from the File Explorer

If you don’t use OneDrive or shifted to another cloud storage service after Microsoft decided to downgrade its storage packages, then there is no point of its icon hanging around in the File Explorer.

We have a registry-based guide that shows how to get rid of it. There are a couple of steps to the process, so check out our guide on how to hide OneDrive from File Explorer.

11. Automatically Delete Pagefile.sys at Shutdown

The Pagefile.sys file is pretty handy in Windows 10, stepping in as virtual RAM to take some load off your physical computer RAM to help speed up the process of retrieving program data, navigating your PC quickly, and other vital functions that RAM carries out.

The pagefile does, however, take up quite a bit of storage space on Windows 10, so here’s our registry hack to automatically delete Pagefile.sys when your PC shuts down.

12. Adjust Menu Animations

You can also adjust menu animations to make them look snappier. If you have a slower PC, then faster animations should make it easier to navigate. We have a detailed article on how to adjust and disable menu animations; you can refer to it to learn how to pull off that registry tweak.

13. Disable Windows 10 Startup Delay

Windows puts a tiny delay on startup to help apps starting up with Windows go through the process smoothly and so that you can start with a smooth desktop without lags.

However, if you don’t have many startup apps – for instance, if you have disabled startup apps – this delay could be unnecessary. You can disable this delay to speed up the Windows startup. With all that in mind, here’s our guide on how to disable the startup delay in Windows 10 using the registry editor.

Registry tweaks aren’t the only way to turbo-charge your Windows 10 experience. We also have a list of many other Windows 10 tweaks for you to check out. Say what you will about Windows – its tweakability runs deep. If you have any other neat registry tricks or Windows hacks, do share them in the comments.

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Windows Registry Tweaks

On this page we will show you one of the registry tweaks that will automatically change various registry entries that will speed Windows up. The good part is that when you make a .reg file you don’t have to manually change/create all the registry values by yourself. See below how to do it make the registry tweaks.

Make The «Registry Tweak» File

• When editing the registry, you should always make a backup of it. Open up the Regedit tool and click File and Export in the menu. Now save the file, it will contain a backup of your entire registry. You can use this file later to retrieve old registry values.
• Now open up the Notepad application which comes with Windows and copy & paste the following text into it:
• Save the file as tweak.reg in a folder of your choice
• Execute tweak.reg(by navigating to the map you saved it in) and click Yes to apply the changes to the Windows Registry

Note: When you want to change the registry back to your old values, use the backup you made with step 1

How Did I Speed Up Windows?

With the .reg file you just created and executed you have changed different registry entries that will speed up Windows in various ways. Below is explained what you changed and how it will effect Windows.

MenuShowDelay: Reduces menu display times
LowLevelHooksTimeout: Ends services automatically when they are not responding
NoInternetOpenWith: Stops the «Windows Cannot Open This File» window from popping up when a file type is unidentified
LinkResolveIgnoreLinkInfo: Windows attempts to connect to the original network resource when you access the shortcut, while creating a shortcut to a resource on a mapped network drive, and altogether remapping the same drive to a different network resource.
NoResolveSearch: Stops Windows from searching disk(s) to resolve a shortcut
NoLowDiskSpaceChecks: This will stop Windows from checking out if you have low disk space
NoResolveTrack: Stops Windows from using NTFS when it resolves a shortcut
HungAppTimeout: Reduces the timeout waiting time of any application to 1 second