Here are the 4 most important registry tweaks with which you can speed up your windows PC.
Place Windows Kernel into RAM
1) Go to Start-->Run and type regedit which open registry editor window
2) From the left pane navigate through the path
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHING\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\MemoryManagement\DisablePagingExecutive
Set the value data to 1 (default is 0 as show in the figure) which will disable paging and make kernel run in RAM
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Increase Menu Speed:
To increase menu speed you have to decrease the hexadecimal value data set under MenuShowDelay in registry.
to do it edit the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay to a value less than 400.
set it to zero if you want your menu to be shown real quick. (default is 400)
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Edit DWORD value of Prefetching Parameter 'EnablePrefetcher'
Enter into registry editor and goto
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameter\EnablePrefetcher
set the hexadecimal value data to a higher number than the default value.
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Disable 8.3 name creation in NTFS
Set the Registry DWORD Key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation (to 1)
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Now Exit registry and restart for the changes to take affect.
Hope this helps...