How to maximize the performance of Win 7?

in any Windows, the most important thing to disable the paging file:)
because it uses it even if physical memory is enough...

buy a more powerful graphics card. and RAM (although more than 4Gb is not necessary)
from ustanovki services you will benefit fps 0.2 + 0.2 fps from disabling aero etc lose such nice features like the quick search and launch and the start menu, beautiful appearance (way less cumbersome), and other udobnosti

Games little tips will help. Because when the game started — most of the operations already performed on the CPU and GPU.
Optimization on articles in the style of "speed up Windows 100%" will help to accelerate the work with the Windows. Window, run programs, download desktop.
If you start a game — the Windows itself giving it more resources. It will not be at this time in the background to do redraw Windows, if you have certainly not put any software that this will require. About turning off the tinsel from startup already wrote above.
A little help (to speed up loading levels, for example) defragment.
Mostly to toy worked well, just need a good iron. You can't optimize Windows for P4 + GF MX440 that ran Crysis.

To maximize the performance of win 7 is enough to put a 8-12 GB of RAM. The paging file can not touch, she basically is pulling in this amount of memory.
SSD would be good too.
Disabling Aero will only lead to poor performance if installed normal graphics card.

When the trees were large and memory on the computer 256, and I really wanted to play in the line — I disabled at all. That has freed up an "extra" 30-40 megabytes.
And of course, of course, no background( he did a dozen megabyte per frame is dependent on the resolution)
Then I counted the gigabytes on beer, and the day drank beer.
Since then, nothing off, I don't need nirazu.
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If you want to work faster — overclocking is waiting for you. 10-20% you can squeeze with his eyes closed( and cold room )

Aero eats, not argue (dwm is, in fact, it is).
but looking at this wonderful list, I somehow just lose the desire to dig into Windows services.
better not forget to shut down Firefox. (especially given that I'm a couple of days ago restarted)
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(/me trying to remove steam from startup)

Put 1x2 + 2x2 RAM if on 2x2 toad strangling, and after that performance by a third will grow ;)