Do you already have Windows 8 on your personal computer? If you have not installed any additional applications, this operating system will have a startup speed and a considerably large work output.
However What happens if we have already installed a certain number of applications and tools in Windows 8? This situation could be causing slowness in each of the processes and jobs carried out by this operating system. In a very easy and simple way we will indicate in this article, the way in which you can manage certain parameters so that your operating system continues to maintain its speed and work efficiency optimally, something that could also be applied to Windows 8. 1.
Parameters to modify in Windows 8 to obtain better performance
We had previously mentioned some of these aspects that we should execute to obtain better performance, although we dedicated these tasks to Windows 7. Due to the interface change that we can notice in Windows 8, the tasks that we will try to carry out mention the following:
- Disable effects and animations that we are not going to use.
- Manage tools for applications that start with Windows.
- Launch directly to the desktop.
- Change the way we see our Home Screen.
In order to fulfill our first objective, we only have to go towards the System of Windows 8, something we will achieve from the Desktop and using our Win + X keyboard shortcut, at which time contextual options will appear and from which we will choose the System.
In the new window that will appear, we just have to click on «Advanced System Configuration«, which will open a new window with the «System properties«.
We will automatically have jumped to the tab we want to use (Advanced Options), having to click on the «Configuration»From the area of Unlimited.
We will find ourselves in the «Visual effects«, where we could manually deactivate each of the boxes proposed at the bottom and that will show us different types of animations, or choose one of the default profiles that are present at the top.
If you want to have greater performance in Windows 8, then you could choose the 3rd option.
To manage applications that start with Windows 8, we could initially follow the procedure we suggested above for Windows 7; In any case, an easier way is to do click with the right button of our mouse on the toolbar, this to later elect the «Task Manager«.
From the new window that appears, we will only have to choose the tab that says «Home«, environment where they will appear the list of all those applications and tools that are started with Windows 8; To be able to deactivate any of them, we just have to click on the one we choose with the right mouse button, and then select from the context menu «to disable«.
Now, in order to start Windows 8.1 directly to the desktop We could activate this option from Start menu, an application that we previously gave special treatment. If we do not have this tool installed then we could opt for a manual method.
To achieve this we only need to do right-click on the Toolbar, having to later choose «Properties«; Later we have to go to the «Navigation«, place where we will find some options and from which we have to choose the one that says «When Login or Close All Applications…» from the area of «Starting screen«.
The other option that we had mentioned as an objective for improve the performance of Windows 8.1 the same previous window is found; We just have to activate the box that says «Show Applications View Automatically…«, so the applications will be displayed as a list and not like the typical tiles that we have been seeing until now.
Each of these tips that we have described in this article can be very useful for those who have a computer with low resources, which suggests little RAM memory and also video memory, elements that are very important when it comes to offering a effective and fast work in this operating system Windows 8.
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