All computers have graphics hardware that handles everything from drawing your desktop and decoding videos to rendering demanding PC games. Most modern PCs have graphics processing units (GPUs) made by Intel, NVIDIA, or AMD.

While your computer’s CPU and RAM are also important, the GPU is usually the most critical component when it comes to playing PC games. If you don’t have a powerful enough GPU, you can’t play newer PC games—or you may have to play them with lower graphical settings. Some computers have low-power “onboard” or “integrated” graphics, while others have powerful “dedicated” or “discrete” graphics cards (sometimes called video cards.) Here’s how to see what graphics hardware is in your Windows PC.

     Superfetch  este un alt serviciu Windows (Windows Services) care face ca sistemele de operare sa rulreze greu, in special in primele zile de dupa instalarea sistemului de operare. Activitate si consumul de resurse al acestui serviciu de sistem poate fi viibil in Task Manager.

Serviciul Superfetch se ocupa cu indexarea si cache-ul datelor aplicatiilor din sistem, pentru a putea fi puse rapid la dispozitia utilizatorului cand acesta o cere. Pana aici ar fi un lucru bun, insa daca avem de a face cu un hard disk mai vechi, de 5200 rpm, cache-ul datelor o sa ne tina hard-ul in usage foarte mare, iar sistemul s-ar “misca” greu. Un simptom al rularii serviciului Superfetch este si consumul excesiv de resurse CPU si Hard Disk atunci cand laptop-ul este pornit dar nu lucram pe el. Probabil ca ati auzit cooler-ul accelerand foarte mult, chiar daca dvs nu aveti nici o aplicatie deschisa pe laptop si nu atingeti tastatura sau mouse-ul.
Dezactivarea Superfetch nu va duce la o degradare a performantelor sistemului de operare si nici la erori de executie, deoarece acesta nu are dependenta cu alte procese sau aplicatii. Poate degrada in schimb rularea unor aplicatii sau jocuri.

After Windows starts up, it waits about ten seconds before opening your startup programs. This “startup delay” lets your desktop and Windows services finish loading, making everything run a bit smoother. If you have apps you’d rather run immediately, you can do it with a simple Registry hack.

The Registry hack we’re talking about in this article reduces or disables the startup delay, meaning that it applies to all startup apps. There’s no way to apply this technique only to specific apps.

Eliminating the startup delay works best on solid-state drives since they load things much quicker. While you can certainly give it a try if you have a traditional hard drive, you might not see much increase in how fast your startup apps load.