In terms of speed, we can't deny the fact that Linux has an edge over Windows. This is because Linux is more efficient in handling computer resources when compared to the more bloated Windows. Through this speed advantage, it has been utilized on mobile devices and desktop PCs with limited hardware capabilities.
Compared with Windows, Linux desktop boots faster and applications open up quicker and run snappier inside it. Linux servers are favored against those running on Windows because aside from being fast, they are also reliable and secure. I can go on and on explaining about its quickness but since I'm here to teach you how to make Windows faster than Linux, I will now share with you these tips:
2. Remove anti-virus software
I know this will make Windows vulnerable to security threats such as viruses, spyware, trojans, fungus (sic), and worms. But since this is all about making Windows faster, we recommend that you remove your anti-virus software because it's a resource hog and it is one of the key reasons why your desktop is running slow.
3. Disable Automatic Updates
This is another bad idea in terms of security, but disabling automatic updates can help Windows gain some speed. Running automatic updates slows down your system as it uses computer resources to constantly check for updates like security patches. The system also regularly (more regular than normal) checks and hunts down those who are using pirated copies of Windows.
4. Upgrade RAM
Like a good old tech adviser, I encourage you to upgrade or increase your RAM to accommodate the needs of Vista or Windows 7. There's no way that you can beat a Linux desktop using just 1GB of RAM.
5. Buy a new CPU
Buy a new CPU, make it Quad Core Extreme or better. That will surely beat the s%!t out of any Linux distro running on Pentium 3.
6. Downgrade to Windows 95
If you can't afford to buy a new CPU or upgrade your RAM, find a copy of Windows 95 (preferably genuine) and install it. Your Windows desktop will now be faster than any Linux distro made from 2007 onwards.
Compared with Windows, Linux desktop boots faster and applications open up quicker and run snappier inside it. Linux servers are favored against those running on Windows because aside from being fast, they are also reliable and secure. I can go on and on explaining about its quickness but since I'm here to teach you how to make Windows faster than Linux, I will now share with you these tips:1. Defrag Windows disk drive 3X a day
Ask any PC expert and they will always tell you that to speed up Windows you have to defrag your hard disk as often as possible. So in order to make Windows really fast (faster than Linux), why not defrag your hard disk three times a day.
Ask any PC expert and they will always tell you that to speed up Windows you have to defrag your hard disk as often as possible. So in order to make Windows really fast (faster than Linux), why not defrag your hard disk three times a day.
2. Remove anti-virus software
I know this will make Windows vulnerable to security threats such as viruses, spyware, trojans, fungus (sic), and worms. But since this is all about making Windows faster, we recommend that you remove your anti-virus software because it's a resource hog and it is one of the key reasons why your desktop is running slow.
3. Disable Automatic Updates
This is another bad idea in terms of security, but disabling automatic updates can help Windows gain some speed. Running automatic updates slows down your system as it uses computer resources to constantly check for updates like security patches. The system also regularly (more regular than normal) checks and hunts down those who are using pirated copies of Windows.
4. Upgrade RAM
Like a good old tech adviser, I encourage you to upgrade or increase your RAM to accommodate the needs of Vista or Windows 7. There's no way that you can beat a Linux desktop using just 1GB of RAM.
5. Buy a new CPU
Buy a new CPU, make it Quad Core Extreme or better. That will surely beat the s%!t out of any Linux distro running on Pentium 3.
6. Downgrade to Windows 95
If you can't afford to buy a new CPU or upgrade your RAM, find a copy of Windows 95 (preferably genuine) and install it. Your Windows desktop will now be faster than any Linux distro made from 2007 onwards.
7. Wait for Windows 9
Windows 8 might be released next year but I urge you to wait for Windows 9 as it will surely become the greatest, most secure, and fastest operating system in the history of computing. It will be virus-free, anti-virus-free, and Windows-Genuine-Advantage-Notification-free. -Those are all according to Steve Ballmer.
I know that this article is part joke, part real, but I hope you all enjoyed reading this crap stuff :-)
Can win 95 even be installed on a new post 2004 CPU? I guess I can live without eye candy... and who needs modern 3D graphics? Quake in DOS is kewl enough.
Yes, but even win98se followed by 98lite (which is probably the best win9x setup) won't give you better than VGA graphics or access to peripherals like USB, if the hardware (the mobo especially) is so new that only win32 drivers were ever written for it. In that case, Windows has to drop back to DOS-compatibility mode, going through the 16-bit BIOS, which also chews up a bunch of speed.
Basically, if the box has a "made for win2k" or higher (2k, XP, Vista, 7 -- all win32 codebase) sticker on it, putting win9x on it is a waste of time.
Borderline cases (such as some HP boxes which were originally offered with your choice of a win9x -- 95, 98, ME -- or a win32 OS) will have you hittng the OEM sites and/or driverguide.com repeatedly to fix all the question-marks in the control-center System applet. Much pain for little gain, unless you've got a Windows app that you absolutely can't put aside or run in DOSbox or WINE on Linux.
Well, Ubuntu could run better on my machine if I spent 300 hours tweaking it. Maybe I'd be able to change the display brightness! (yeah baby...I'm being sarcastic)
Anyway, I've been a Linux enthusiastic for years. I still like it. Love Bash, the terminal thing, etc. But when you have a life, you simply don't have time to fix things that should just work. And with that brand new OS that came installed on my machine, the hardware I paid for just works. Simple like that! And I've never defraged by Windows drive. I've lost much more time of my life waiting for the disk check of my Linux computers.
Have a life loser!
Ubuntu 10.04 sped up the boot process some more, but the new Plymouth splash could really use some polishing.
One thing I'm sure of though, Win 7 would not be nearly as fast as it is if it weren't Microsoft's fear of Linux. Linux enabled the whole netbook trend and really forced MS to backpedal on their retirement of XP.
Well, Ubuntu could run better on my machine if I spent 300 hours tweaking it. Maybe I'd be able to change the display brightness! (yeah baby...I'm being sarcastic)
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half true
but in linux once you get it right, you can backup using remastersys(or any other program) to clone the OS. so you dont need to reinstall dozen of driver or doing tweak while reinstalling and installing to other pc.
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Anyway, I've been a Linux enthusiastic for years. I still like it. Love Bash, the terminal thing, etc. But when you have a life, you simply don't have time to fix things that should just work.
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agree...
btw isn't this a bussiness opportunity ? i mean linux don't have virus and very stable but you need to tweak it to (really-really)fit your computer... plus linux relesase new version every few month... so more tweaking opportunity :)
I had realy took serious the subject :)
Although, I decided to save a bit of time and just defrag at the start of the day (time for a coffee) and the end of the day only, and turn off my anti-virus to just scan when I tell it to.
But anyway, thanks for the tips!
Everyone seriously disliking about this can say I don't have a live whatever... but Sure I don't do this everytime rather seldom, but just for laughs. At least it is not as bad as when some people mix videogames with politics...
Regards!!
No you won't, my good sir! Read this and you'll know you're quite wrong ;)
http://www.h-online.com/security/features/CSI-Internet-Alarm-at-the-pizza-service-1019940.html.
Yeah, windows' as dangerous as it is. Well, that's life.
In the end though, I don't have the time to spend on little tweaks to obscure propitiatory software. Don't get me wrong, I still love Windows, but it will take more than a few enthusiasts writing articles to make me switch from Linux.
http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-xp-tips/99-ways-to-make-your-computer-blazingly-fast/
Personally I can't understand how any of you lusers can stand Linux. My friend tried to install it on his AKAT-1, but after 3 weeks of commandline hacking, he gave up.
Windows just works.
This is just basic computer knowledge, and if your friend could not follow these simple procedures to install Linux on the AKAT, he probably shouldn't be using a computer at all.
So bad I can't follow the 6th step, I really tried just for fun a couple of weeks ago. First it was totally impossible to make Windows 98 SE to recognise my SATA disks, so I had to cange it to PATA mode in my BIOS, but then it complained about too many cylinders on the 1TB disk, so I had to make a 32GB partition on my own and enable the LBA driver. I installed, but then it was unable to use my 4 GB of ram. I tried everything, it is just impossible. Fortunately I had a spare 1GB dimm, so I replaced my 2x2GB 1600Mhz ram on dual channel by a 1GB 667Mhz DIMM just to get things done. After a lot of hacking and tweaking, and editing the autoexec.bat and win.ini files to allow remapping of memory above the 512MB limit of the system, i found that my 250GTS with 512MB of vram was preventing that remapping. So i removed it. I finally was able to boot, and it was blazing fast indeed, with a boot of about 10 seconds (Ubuntu is still faster though) just that it bluescreened after about 10 seconds of running because it can't use the 4 cores of my CPU (A quad Core extreme), which i had previously underclocked from 3Ghz to 800Mhz, so I gave up.
So far steps 4-5 are totally incompatible with step 6.
- switch off all the services not necessary to the minimum required to run Firefox and Office
- reverse the windows theme to classic reducing colours
- clean all caches
- defrag
- switch off antivirus and use only firefox and thunderbird
this provide me a little bit more reactivity of the desktop but suffer from use Office due to low ram
Both have their good points as well as bad. Hearing people support either of Linux or Windows while denigrating the other so vociferously seems a bit silly. Competition between MS and the various Linux distros can only be good for computer users.
I do thoroughly understand and support Apple bashing though!!
this is the solution. to make windows faster, shut it down and boot in your favorite Linux :)
Well thank you, Einstein, for that amazing observation. Installing Windows gives you a lean system, sure, with virtually nothing on it. Ubuntu or Fedora, on the other hand, try to give you a fully functional system out of the box (or off the CD image, in this case). Same deal with people saying Ubuntu is slow: It's a somewhat bloated system designed for fairly new computers, what do you expect?
If you really want a fair match of Windows vs Linux, use Arch Linux, or at least Debian (stable for comparing against XP, testing for Vista or 7)
That is the funniest thing i have ever heard, my ubuntu install takes up 2.5GB and the cd iso image is just under 700MB, windows 7 cd iso is just under 3GB and once installed takes up over 10GB, and the linux kernel only loads the modules you need so there is no bloat
My laptop is a dual-boot of Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7. I only use Windows 7 once in a blue moon. Ubuntu is lightning fast and 99% or more of what I do in Windows, I can do in Ubuntu. Unlike most people, I have the time, passion, and curiosity to learn a lot about Linux systems. The more I learned about how Ubuntu works, the more I liked it! Now Ubuntu is my main OS. I find Windows complicated and confusing, and I even think that Ubuntu is easier to use. The only thing that is simpler in Windows than Ubuntu is the GUI.