Optimize Your Gaming Laptop PDF Print E-mail
Written by Francua Smith   
Saturday, 12 September 2009 18:24
Are your 3D games running a little slow? Do you want to optimize your gaming laptop? Well, help is here. Remember, optimizing your gaming laptop is quite simple - you just need to know some tricks here and there. But you need to know what you're doing so you don't damage your laptop. So this article provides you with some tips for doing this. Read on and find out more!
by FrancuaSmith


Are your 3D games running a little slow? Do you want to optimize your gaming laptop? Well, help is here. Remember, optimizing your gaming laptop is quite simple - you just need to know some tricks here and there. But you need to know what you're doing so you don't damage your laptop. So this article provides you with some tips for doing this. Read on and find out more!

1. Uninstall Memory Resident Programs You Don't Need The first way to optimize your gaming laptop is to uninstall memory resident programs you don't need. These little buggers hog memory and run in the background all the time. Remove them, and your laptop will start up faster, and you will also even eliminate some risk of getting viruses (some services are maliciously installed by spyware).

2. Clear Out Background Services That Are Not Needed The next thing you can do to optimize your gaming computer is to remove background services which hog memory. Go to the Start menu, click on Run and type "services.msc". You will see a list of services running in your laptop. Understand what they do by referring to this page http://snakefoot.fateback.com/tweak/winnt/services.html. One you determine which you don't need, remove them to get better performance out of your laptop.

3. Clean The Registry The registry is another put which slows down your laptop. It's necessary to clear out clogged up registry entries which slow things down. You can download a registry cleaning utility called RegscrubXP which helps to do the job. Believe me, a clean registry will make your gaming laptop run faster and make it feel fresh.

4. Download The Latest DirectX drivers Another important thing to do to optimize your gaming laptop is to download the latest DirectX drivers. If the graphics drivers are not updated, your games will simply not run efficiently. This is a notorious reason for games not performing well under Windows. Also, make sure your graphics card supports the latest DirectX drivers. You can run a DirectX diagnostic in Windows to see there are problems.

5. Defrag The Hard Drive Another tip I'd recommend to you is to defragment your hard drive regularly. A hard drive really slows down in performance if it is fragmented. After being fragmented for a long time, it might even crash. So do remember to do a defrag once a week at least.

6. Disable Fancy Desktop Stuff See those animated menus in Windows? Well, they're good to see at, but hey are memory hoggers. You don't truly need them - delete them to squeeze some more spectacle out of your laptop.

7. Do A Full Install The concluding tip I've got for you is to do a full when you want to run games or applications. By doing a full install, you prevent the system from reading from the DVD. Everything is on the tough disk, thus it should increases velocity and spectacle significantly. Given that tough disks have thus much area nowadays, this is something you should consider.

Conclusion I hope this article has helped you understand some ways to optimize your gaming laptop. Of course, you can also plonk in money to buy a new CPU, add more RAM or a new dedicated graphics card. But the above are simple tips which don't cost you any money, and they should be what you try out first before getting new parts. Until next time, good luck and happy gaming!

DISCLAIMER: This article is provided as information only and is not to be taken as financial advice.

Francua Smith is a skilled Computer specialist who has a lot of experience on laptop computers. He will help you to choose your own nice laptop computer.