What features of Win7 to turn of for better performance? : Othor Games

» Sat Jun 30, 2012 12:05 am

Hey guys

So yeah, I think the title says it. What features of Windows 7 would you disable/have you disabled to boost your performance?

I googled it several times but I can't decide which one's I should disable and which ones to keep.

» Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:00 am

The User Access Control seems to be a waste of time.

» Sat Jun 30, 2012 9:56 am

Aero.

» Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:44 am

Besides turning off hibernation to free hard drive space, nothing.

» Sat Jun 30, 2012 1:26 am

Aero.

What does that even do? My rig complains that it runs slow and suggests turning Aero off every time I shut down Civ 5 (even though I haven't noticed any unusual lags or anything).

» Sat Jun 30, 2012 12:01 am

What does that even do? My rig complains that it runs slow and suggests turning it off every time I shut down Civ 5 (even though I haven't noticed any unusual lags or anything).

It makes the UI ugly by getting rid of the transparency effects and stuff. Set your theme to Windows 7 Basic and that's the same thing.

» Sat Jun 30, 2012 3:04 am

Aero.

I have Aero Peek disabled already, and I want to disable Aero Shake if that's possible. I never use Aero Shake but I don't know if it's worth the performance difference to turn it off?