--If the applications in your computer open too slowly, you can improve by turning off some visual effects of Windows. Right-click on My Computer and select Properties. Advanced Options tab, and under Performance, click Settings. Beneath the Visual Effect tab, select Adjust for best performance or Custom, then turn off all unnecessary effects.

--To do this in Windows 98, 2000 or Me, right-click on the desktop and select Properties. Click Effects tab, uncheck the items in the Visual Effect until you see its speed better. In Windows 98, off Animate windows, menus and lists, and in all three versions you can uncheck the Show window contents while dragging.

--Performance Options dialog box in Windows XP allows you to control limit the memory usage of Windows and the priority of tasks to processors in the computer. To check the settings, open the Performance Options dialog box is presented in section 65, select Advanced. Under Processor Scheduling, Programs selected to keep for your application normally runs with a higher priority than background applications below. However, if you often work with an application when other applications are being arranged on a database, printing of large graphics, or perform a different task to use multiple processors on the ground below, then you should select Background services to time share the processor for all tasks are equal instead give priority to common applications. You should use the default settings of the Memory usage Programs. Select System cache only when you want to use the computer as a server instead of workstation.

--If you want Windows to boot in seconds and all application materials are open like before you shut down your computer, try to use hibernate mode. In the Address bar of Internet Explorer or Explorer window, type Control PanelPower Options. If the Power Options Properties dialog box has no Hibernate tab, then your computer does not have this mode. Conversely, if this function, select it and check that your computer meets the requirements for disk space or Hibernate mode.

--If your system supports hibernate mode, enable it using the Hibernate tab of Power Options Properties dialog box (see section 68) and select the Enable hibernation.

--As soon as hibernating is enabled, select Start, Shut Down or Start, Turn Off Your Computer to shutdown. If you select Shut Down, select Hibernate and click OK. Otherwise click Turn Off Your Computer, then you hold down the Shift key to select Standby icon for Hibernate, then click the mouse to select it.

--Make the border of the window to select more easily. Have you ever tried to set the mouse to select a location on the window border to resize the window yet? It was scary, to resize windows easier, first click on the desktop, select Properties, then click on the Appearance tab (Advanced tab for Windows XP). From the Item list, select Active Window Border, and increase the size of the border by increasing the value in the Size box.