Tips for improving Windows 7 performance on a netbook [closed]

"Fine Tune Visual Graphics/Animation Settings

The Windows 7 eye candy is the main
cause of GUI slowness. While my
netbook has a decent graphics card
that can display Aero Glass it can be
choppy at times.

Click on the Start Button and type in
adjust the appearance and hit Enter.
This will load the Visual Effects
performance options.

On this screen I suggest disabling the
following settings by removing the
check:

Animate controls and elements inside windows
Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing
Fade or slide menus into view
Fade or slide ToolTips into view
Fade out menu items after clicking
Show window contents while dragging
Slide open combo boxes
Click OK when you are finished.

From TaranFX"

"Remove Startup Programs

Nothing wastes resources more is
startup programs that you don’t need.
This can be done multiple ways, the easy way is using CCleaner:

CCleaner (Free)

CCleaner isn't strictly a startup
management tool. Most people use it to
clean out cookies and other
undesirable elements and to tidy up
the registry. A secondary but helpful
tool in CCleaner: it also allows you
to delete entries from the startup
file—hence its inclusion here. It's a
bit of a one trick pony, though; you
can't alter, tweak, or insert entries.
You can only delete them. Still, it
gets the job done if the task you want
isn't advanced tweaking, but just to
get that annoying program to stop
popping up every time you reboot.

Alternatively you can use follow these steps:

Click on the Start Button and type in
msconfig and hit Enter.

When the System Configuration utility
is loaded click on the Startup tab.

Remove the check next to any
applications you don’t need and click
OK.

From TaranFX"