Optimizing / Tweaking Windows 7 for Gaming

This is an all inclusive, one stop shop video for tweaking the hell out of windows 7 geared towards gamers. Even if you're not a gamer you can use this video to vastly improve the performance of your pc.
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Registry key for un parking cores:
0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583
Topics covered:
uac
windows update
startup
paging file
windows performance
windows defender
all updates for software
background images
raid 0 and ssd
write caching
hibernation
services pre fetch super fetch and such (registry aswell)
windows features
moving files for user defaults
power saving features in motherboard
power settings in windows
unparking cpu
ssd trim
indexing
shutdown lag
no gui boot
msi afterburner
malware bytes
move temp files to other hard drive
ssd software
drivers
registry/cc cleaner
avg
defrag
java/flash
black viper
This is my longest video to date, but it's well worth it. I had a blast making it and I hope you enjoy!
#Windows7 #ShipshoTV #Tweaking #PCgaming #Windows #Tutorial #Optimization

[@primalway1]

Absolutely the BEST video on the topic on KZbin...well done. I'll PM you with questions if I may...Thank you.

[@GiznowTV]

i finished the 1 hour 20 min tutorial and this is worth it. thanks mate!

[@JamesPowell313101]

Dude your tutorial was great. Please do a windows 10 optimizing video.

[@gerrard9631]

***** Since making your changes to my PC all of my games are now CRASHING TO DESK TOP !!! Any thoughts on that

[@wraith4134]

+Brandon Buzard (BZBUZZARD) YES!!!!!

[@roneeh7332]

+Brandon Buzard (BZBUZZARD) how do you know all these things ? what do you do for a living ? what are your sources its like youre an expert of some sort btw thanks for the video very thought through

[@zgy3002]

+Brandon Buzard (BZBUZZARD) When would you estimate it to be up? I'm going to reinstall Windows completely and upgrade from 7 to 10 :-)

[@mandark8059]

+Brandon Buzard (BZBUZZARD) thank u for taking ur time to make this video full of useful info without any Bs... i watched the hole video and now i subscribed and im going to like every vid u post, im currently on Spying Win10, and im so disapointed in microsoft for pulling a dick move by forcing their loyal consumers to give up their entire private info, but tanx for ur vid i was inspired to install Win7 on my new gaming pc

[@harveywattsjr]

wow - thank-you for explaining so much, so well - i'm literally just watching it and will go through it again to do everything, but hearing all the concepts re: why and how of things is the only way my mind processes and holds on to things. three things in particular to mention: you haven't tried to sell me anything, you DID tell me to get rid of "superfetch" (always wanted to but unsure), and you use this really strange phrase "i don't know..." Not knowing everything seems a rare trait in an instructional video; it lets me know there's something here i could learn about(nothing being hidden), and makes me trust the rest of the stuff your telling me is stuff you really do know pretty darn well. btw, i'm not a gamer but i use a lot of graphics programs: AutoCad, Sketchup and photoshop. I've heard that a "gaming computer" would be a good idea so i figured following this advice will at least get what i have already (not a gamer) working better and heading in that direction. Thanks tons!

[@AimShallo]

Thank you for studying all this for all, I really like your humor and how easily you can teach us this, for example you teach us advanced settings stuff, once you're done you pause the video, exit out of everything go to desktop and let us know the next step.Keep doing what you're doing, it helps us all.

[@wificannibal8226]

Starting the video now, looking forward to the great results!

[@wificannibal8226]

Been pausing it off and on, just finished. Thanks much, I knew I would learn some stuff. A lot of stuff I knew but you refreshed my memory of its' importance and you taught me a lot of things I didn't know. Cheers m8!

[@Keef_DGAF]

still watching and liking, but i just gained massive respect and trust for this video simply from one small quick whisper.. "please dont use norton" norton is the anthema to windows imho which comes from 34yrs experience (you ask why i am watching the video if i have 34yrs experience? because there is ALWAYS room to learn things you might have missed)

[@Keef_DGAF]

+Keith Legge really good video, found a lot of things (mostly newer) that i have overlooked and hadnt edited.. thanks brandon

[@childishmax9900]

This video was very long but completely worth it man, I appreciate you for making this video ! Good looks.

[@zgedzn8115]

This is the best optimization video i watched in 4 years !! Thank you ! ;)

[@BMACMASTAMIND]

Totally Worth my Time!! You are amazing Brandon!! I Totally recommend this video!! And a straight up explanation. very clear. very precise ! Thank you so much! :)

[@Procsetor]

Amazing video. The first video I ever watched (fully) that was over an hour. I did everything you did and it helped me a lot. I don't know how you found out so much of these things, but great job and I greatly appreciate you

[@garyrobinson8050]

gotta say, done this as instructed this is by far the best tweak i have ever done thanks to you, liked and subscribed many thanks for the superb video

[@PP0pezZY0]

An hour pass and i met you, an hour pass and i thought you, an hour pass and now im in a cool game playing in high settings. An hour to late to get to your video man. thanks a million. good job.

[@chrisborges7344]

Massive respect for this video. So well done all around from delivery, speech, presentation etc. Great job!

[@vonveedersound]

Just wanted to say Thank You for making the world a better place. I have used this tutorial a number of times and recommended it to numerous gaming friends. Great job!!!

[@archangelnaoto9346]

You have my thanks, Brandon Buzard. This has stabilized my computer and improved the fluidity and smoothness of it, as well.

[@klyxrasta]

Funniest part about this video is Internet Explorer icon in the start bar xD On a side note i completely approve this video. If only more people would run things like this guy does in PC and irl as well.

[@Pufuletul]

OOO Thank you so much man! after I followed all the steps that you described in this video needed to reinstall Windows again because the computer is moving extremely slowly

[@antivenom6561]

That helped alot man.. wow! A precious gratitude for you... 👍

[@coows]

WHen you look at 41:39 this article will help you understand that, (OH I'M NOT WRECKING MY SYSTEM!) www.technipages.com/windows-enable-disable-superfetch

[@SumChange]

Still using this video when I install a fresh OS! Thanks for keeping it uploaded!

[@Skruphi]

Your guide took me from 1:28 second boot time to 0:37. Very good, thank you!

[@Zrallings]

You're the best. This is advanced and you explain everything to us so it sounds so simple. Thank you so much, you should make more.

[@ЛошМи-б1ь]

Wow. That's really long video. Good job! I like it. 👍

[@omarsdungeons1657]

That is REALLY helpful i am still using windows 7 and i find this so helpful thanks keep up the good content

[@ibuildfences]

Really appreciate you taking the time to do this video man, well done ! If I could just add one thing. If you wanted to, instead of hitting ctrl + alt + delete to bring up task manager just right click on your task bar and you can select " start task manager " from there. Also the makers of CCleaner ( great program btw ) have a nice defragment program called " Defraggler ". Thanks again for your work - Sped my computer up nicely thanks to you. - Cheers *

[@mindquake8]

What a fantastic, informative video. Great clarity, speed and content! Thank you

[@RKO859]

Nice video sir, well appreciated. gonna test how much faster now for my games

[@rdegulielmo]

Thanks for putting this together buzz, much appreciated!I did encounter an error while Arma was running:"windows will close programs to prevent information loss" popup.Looks like this might have to do with paging file, so I'm going to do some testing by turning it back on my SSD.Windows 10 PC, 8 GB RAM.

[@hsrworld6028]

seriously brother ur video deserves MILLION VIEWS

[@MarcelloPiccirillo05]

This video is so helpful every time I reset my pc!

[@trizzle655boy]

Veryy well made video and seems to have improved game play. 10/10 would recommend to anyone who needs an extra boost to their PC performance.

[@XlxTacticZz]

Helped hugely thank you! Think disabling services really helped

[@The1AndOnlyCarrotPie]

WOW !!! THIS GUIDE IS GREAT !!! VERY GOOD JOB ON EXPLAINING WHAT THEY DO AND WHY U SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT DISABLE/ENABLE THEM !!!

[@renoman31182]

Downloaded AVG PC TuneUP, AVG one click maintenance and Spybot, does everything for you, good job teaching them manually though :) I like it for when I'm gaming only not permanently so I'll stick to those!

[@hansadelstein9858]

Wow!!! Das ist großartig!!!! I play Far Cry 4 in my pc. At the first time when i started to play the Far Cry 4, the FPS was 40/50 now it's 90/120!!!!!! AMAZING MANNER! :D

[@trevkeay5555]

Thanks so much. My wife just found an old Dell Computer (She thought it was a heater first of all!!), running win7 & 4gb ram, with old dual core cpu. But its now turned from a Donkey to a race horse, Thanks so much, & have even applied some of the principles to my win 10, laptop running an SSd. Thats faster already too, thanks again, just got the "Go Fast Masters Course" :-) Thanks again (Oct 2021)

[@Michael194]

Much respect for this, a lot of effort was put into here

[@MarcelloPiccirillo05]

Still using this video for windows 11

[@ernomeister]

Good video man ! You deserve more views and subscribers for this good video. Keep them up ! I watched the whole video and did all of these steps, and i can see the difference.

[@jparker191]

Hey dude, very good video, well explained mate, and this has improved my PC quite a bit :)

[@Kjaer6792]

Never seen such a good tutorial here on KZbin, you really did a good job here, It was never too boring even though i thought in the start that over one hour was long. But Man did you proove me wrong ! :D Good fucking Job!

[@danielbrown5424]

Absolutely Amazing man very well made video and was a huge help for my new built pc

[@nearemus]

Thank you , Sir ! I can't wait untill i restart my pc and see the results ! I am at minute 52 and i love to watch this !

[@nearemus]

+Remus Neagu I have done most of your tweaks on my RIG and it works as fine as never did before. Thank you and i will wait your WINDOWS 10 Optimizing / Tweaking video so i can install that Windows :) . Cheers !

[@purplenightdrive627]

Thank youuuuu sooo much!!! You are godly the best . thanks for the great upload and the amazing feedback !! I watch it 3times for 4pc's

[@seankivler1957]

Thank you for this post. I usually do pretty much all you've stated herein as regular practice, but there are a couple things I hadn't seen/or thought to do myself. Typically I find 2X a month more than sufficient to find the Updates and apply other 'PC Operator Maintenance' tasks. All in all, a very good video. Reading your post responses, suggests that many didn't listen to your 'Disclosure' statements... BTW, those not familiar with CC can really do a JOB on their systems and will not be able to use it if they 'go in 'blind'.. just sayin'... OTOH, anything anybody does to their system, they do it on their own and thus are personally liable for anything they did, themselves. Your recommendation the 'Black Viper' page comes up through Google Chrome as unable to connect, and through my IE: not permitted to view... further explanation states one needs a password to 'go there'.. was hoping to find something 'helpful'... :(

[@petef717]

Thanks for this, my Windows Experience Index jump a few points up across the board. 👍😃

[@wolfsdengaming2954]

Very clear and concise video, well done.

[@ham278]

Wow man thanks a lot for this tutorial. You just earned another subscriber.

[@nomanSK_]

Hit like for this man's hard-work . Awesome work man.

[@ScoxGungFu]

Awesome, thank you very much for this. Worth watching the entire video.

[@hazimreitz]

You my man made my aspire 4740 can play GTA V without lag and this is a 7 years old laptop!!!

[@hazimreitz]

FPS GAME ONLY well, i turned everything down and upgrade my ram to 6gb. It is an old laptop that uses the 310m gpu xD

[@WarriorWoz]

For the location change for the folders. You can also change it in your C:\Users\%Currentuser% You can right click, Properties, and change the location of the folder there.

[@JamesPowell313101]

awesome :) . yea i noticed some settings got reset and even my virus protection got deleted but i got that back up and running.

[@roadworthy6901]

Thanks for this. In regards to a good defrag program that's free, Smart Defrag 5 is just awesome, and has nice gaming features.

[@raphaelb.3869]

Wonderful video indeed! Thank you very very much! Well done!

[@ebenbrittz535]

Just a tip for the people running on a laptop. If you put your power settings on high performance, it's advisable to put it on a cooling pad, because your laptop may get warm if you don't.

[@azureknight777]

From what I've read, prefetch doesn't use extra memory all the time. It instead maintains a list of what gets loaded by particulater apps when they are run. Once it has made that list it tries to load those files into memory when that app is called so that while the app is busy doing its various operations (like decompressing data or checking the network), windows can keep the disk fully utilized with reading and have the files ready in memory for when the app gets around to asking for them. The only question I have is how long these files are retained in memory. If they are held in memory for the duration of the app running, I might want to disable it on a low memory system to keep a maximum amount of memory available to a game and hopefully minimize memory jutter.

[@Hulkwiz]

Sir, you are a god I have NEVER gotten lag since I watched this entire video and did everything man thank you sooooo much man I really dont know how to repay you if this video would cost 100$ dollars it would be well worth it man thanks allot

[@J12H]

Great job! Best tutorial for windows optimization ever :)

[@nicktonytone8317]

Works great just be mindful about things you may want to use in the future. or at least remember where you changed things so u can come back later and edit anything you need.

[@RedSmurfzGaming]

It is so great to see you took the time and effort to make this very long video to help people. Thank you! +1

[@ahsankamran3973]

the best video so far. Thanks a Lot dear. This helps me a lot :)

[@kidsythe]

I have no idea if this helped, but it had quite a few more things for me to learn in it.

[@KRIS__B]

Thanks for this great tutorial now my Pc starts up like it used to. I have 4 Questions 1. Do you know if you can script the profiles in MSI Afterburner or assign a profile to a program, game, etc. I mean, I have 3-4 profiles: 1. Default, Winter 2.Default Summer (Summer is known, so you need to turn on the fans: P) For programs and games profiles: 3.OC 4 OC SUMMER is known Summer so you have to turn up the fans And I would like e.g: If I am browsing the internet, watching a movie, etc., for the profile to load 1 If I run games, Adobe, etc., the OC profile is launched and after exiting the program, it returns to the profile 1-2 As for the rest of the profiles, this is the 2nd question: Is it possible to set in the charmonogram that from, for example: October to May there is profile 1 and from May to October there is Profile 2, but when starting the browser as above, adobe games will start in OC mode. 3. The same as above, but with profiles, eg in Bios, it's more about fans. As you know, the OC of the CPU adapts to the load, so the clocks fall in idle, etc. 4.Can this tutorial also apply to Win 10? I hope I didn't confuse too much: D

[@osctelum]

Great video, glad you went through all the details..

[@johnmaden-kissier2746]

nice bro I watched the whole video as well and took it as very useful

[@magdylast9408]

Thank you great tutorial , can you tell me the name of the Malware program you mentioned in this video

[@JimmyJaxJellyStax]

Use CCEnhancer to seriously boost the power of CCleaner cleaning abilities! Also their program SystemNinja cleans beyond CCleaner+CCEnhancer by checking for corrupt RecycleBin folders, etc and cleaning out sometimes Gigabytes of just lost crap stuck in those... crazy, but I've seen it happen on many systems. You might have several gigs just stuck!

[@ali4635]

Really loved the tuotorial bro.. :) I still couldn't complete it but the rest was good..

[@skyplaybgskyplaybg8468]

wow man thats amazing i watched your video..and my PC is way better now..Thanks man.

[@PorkSnorkle]

Amazing video! Thank you so much for your hard work!

[@macalan4443]

This tutorial is amazing , just great. My PC work perfect now, thx a lot dude :-)

[@diegon2020]

you helped me so much! keep up the work

[@resay6729]

HUGE respect for you !

[@rarb1992]

Excellent video my pc works amazing, thanks

[@qqq-nj1mw]

Thanks so much for this video. You mentioned building your own PC, and is this an easy process? I am a high school student with no technologically savvy parent who can help. I really don't want to mess it up, but I do know there's a lot of info out there. What would you recommend? Thanks again.

[@RomanPushin]

I still using win7, just love it :)

[@Elfanaaan]

Myself also using windows 7, kindly may i know which internet security software are you using?

[@RomanPushin]

@@Elfanaaan Malwarebytes, good soft.

[@Elfanaaan]

@@RomanPushin Thank you sir for you replyed rapidly

[@primebear3960]

amazing video brother

[@Zdr4vk0]

question > i have a laptop... if i put the Processor Power Management>Minimum Processor state to 100%... will it make my laptop hot often? or is it just the tempreture outside that makes the laptop hot? keep in mind, i need to buy a better cooler underneath my laptop... the one that i am using now is very old and doesnt do a lot...

[@trashorstash9233]

Anyone watching in 2018? Btw, I love the video! Watched the whole thing :D

[@andersiversen2678]

haha loved your exit from Cmd ^^ (-No we are not going to close it, we are going to do the propper thing /exit)

[@gaffateip123]

Please do a windows 10 optimizing video Brandon Buzard ! please !

[@forfunq991]

Most helpful video i have ever seen.. thanks to you

[@sandsigeren8567]

Amazing video! Liked, favorited, and subscribed! :D

[@peterjedlicka9150]

Thx for your usefull tips! Great video.

[@gamespecies]

SUBBED!! :D great video man! thx alot, appreciate the effort that went into making this video :D

[@Guinea54]

Thanks for the turtorial.. sometimes when i change anything my computer actually feels even slower.. it's weird.. I don't get the power saving options.. Why do you need max power all the time and for nothing to shut off? It's not like people are gaming on their computers 24-7.. why wouldn't you want power to the processor and computer only when it's needed? Isn't that a waste of power and wear and tear for no reason if you're just searching the web or idle?

[@septic3392]

This is perfect i actually love you

[@TomTrey]

Perfect video. I look forward to the WIN 10 version.

[@h3lol]

Great video man, really helps!

[@mandark8059]

+Brandon Buzard thank u for taking ur time to make this video full of useful info without any Bs... i watched the hole video and now i subscribed and im going to like every vid u post, im currently on Spying Win10, and im so disapointed in microsoft for pulling a dick move by forcing their loyal consumers to give up their entire private info, but tanx for ur vid i was inspired to install Win7 on my new gaming pc

[@unsundecapo253]

I did all you said, but i can't see any images, i can see them on the desktop and stuff but if i open it says that it doesn't support the file format even tho it's just png/jpg any picture really.

[@3minded0o]

So I have a question about my cpu( I have an intel i7 870- which id quad core) at my resource monitor it shows 8 cpu's ( from 0-7) which I don't get.. Is it because the cpu has 8 Threads ? If so/not why is every other cpu marked as parked even after changing the regedit ? and why did the regedit only find 3 of the locations were I had to change the min and max values for the cpu's ?

[@spacebar3128]

mic is a little loud but im sure you have fixed that by now, great vid!

[@marius35mm]

Thanks! What a nice tutorial, I knew half of the tweaks but you expanded my knowledge so much with this video. I am worried about two tweaks: the superfetch and prefetch. Doesn't disabling them loads up the RAM and slows the Windows? Please explain when you can what happens when they are off and on. I googled of course, but I did not understood much. +1 Subscribers!

[@marius35mm]

+DashX 19 I forgot to mention I don't have a SSD.

[@tgapz978]

Hey thanks a ton for the video! fuggin subbed

[@tekton4044]

at 23:50, The "Turn off windows write-cache buffer" thing is no joke. If you turn this off without a backup power running with your computer you are putting your computer at super risk. I've blown a hard drive this way because my house power just went off for a split second. So ether, leave it alone more make sure you have a backup powersupply running

[@garyshaw8449]

I almost shit my pants when he told us to write something into ms dos and then he said "oh wait. don't do that" .. I had already hit enter

[@eawrfeafew380]

wait when u look for the cores, and u r changing the number thingy in the reg-edit i only have 1 of the core thingy that has maximum and minimum 1:04:20

[@maxsettings2906]

hey bro durning the part when you say to go to regedit and click on policies nothing happens. i clicked on policies ans explorer did not come up