How To Boost Up your Windows 8

1 . Easy Shutdown

To shut down your Windows 8 PC, you have to bring up the menu click on Settings, click on Power and then you have to select Shut down. You can avoid this round about process by creating a shortcut for 'Shut down' and pinning it to taskbar of your Windows 8.When you are in desktop mode, right click and from their menu select New shortcut. A window will open,type there 'shutdown'. Enter a name for the shortcut. You can call it 'Shutdown' or anything else .Select an icon for the new shortcut and save it. You can then click on this shortcut to shutdown the system directly. For more easy access, drag it on to the taskbar to pin it there.

2. Disable Time-Wasting Animations

Windows 8 (display animations when you minimize, maximize, open, or close application windows. The animations are slick eye-candy, but they do introduce a delay. You can disable the animations and window transitions will happen instantly, eliminating the delay.To disable the animations, press the Windows key, type System Performance Properties, and press Enter. Uncheck the Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing option. You may also want to disable some of the other animations, such as the Fade or slide menus into view and Fade or slide Tool Tips into view. This will make menus and tool tips snap to attention instead of fading in with an animation.

3.Keep an eye on your system functioning

This is the point which most users will ignore until something faulty happens to their systems. Windows 8 comes with quite a few tools to monitor and diagnose software and hardware problems well before they happen.

Go to the “Performance” tab of the Task Manager and you will have an overview of what is happening in the system. If your computer is running slow, you can pinpoint whether it is due to the hard drive, the CPU or the lack of memory available to applications.

4. Troubleshoot problems

One of the best features in Windows 8 is its highly effective and powerful Troubleshooting feature. Now, whenever you face any problems with the your OS, you don't necessarily need to ask an expert for help.To access the Troubleshooting wizard, go to your Control Panel then- System and security then- Find and fix problems.In the screen that appears, click on View all to display all the automated packs in the OS.From here, users can troubleshoot over 20 commonly occurring problems including hardware issues, network connections, performance matters, setting up a printeror a TV tuner - and even overall system maintenance.

5. Manage Your Startup Programs

The Windows Task Manager now allows you to easily disable programs that start with your
computer. Click the Startup tab in the Task Manager to access these options.

Windows also analyzes how long each program takes to start and displays this information in the Startup impact column. Select a program and click Disable to prevent it from starting with Windows, speeding up your startup process.

6.Modify Power plans

Windows 8 uses power plans to determine whether battery life or performance should be prioritized, just as previous versions of Windows do. To view your power plan settings, press the Windows key, type Power Plan, click Settings, and press Enter.

In the default Balanced mode, Windows automatically reduces your CPU’s speed when maximize speed isn’t needed. This saves power. To squeeze all the performance you can out of your hardware, you may want to try High performance instead. In High performance mode, your CPU’s speed is never reduced. It runs at full speed all the time.

However, this isn’t necessarily a good thing. Even high-performance gaming PCs are used for web browsing some of the time and it doesn’t make sense to run the CPU at full throttle while browsing the web. This just wastes power and generates additional heat.

Whichever plan you choose, make sure you aren’t using Power saver. This is only useful if you want to squeeze as much battery life out of your laptop as possible.