Boot from the Windows DVD or USB device. Wait for Windows Installation files to load. Wait for Windows Setup to finish loading. Choose your language and other preferences. Choose appropriate action and wait for Windows setup to begin. Accept the Windows license terms. Choose the type of Windows installation to complete.
One consideration is how much you’ll game. If you are not an avid gamer or just a casual gamer, you can just divide the rest of HDD after 70GB for Windows in 3 equal parts. However, if you’ll play a lot of games, you might want 600 GB or so for that alone; this is because games today take up anywhere between 20GB to 70GB for a single game. 70 to 100 GB for Windows (essential). Name one partition Games, one Programs, and one Others. If you are a Gamer like me keep 600 GB drive partition for games and name it Games.
Wait while Windows is installed. Wait for Windows setup to complete. Wait for Windows to prepare your PC for first use. Wait for Windows to check your PC’s video performance. Choose a username, computer name and password. Enter your product key. This was given to you at the time of purchase. Choose time, date, and zone.
Some manufacturers include bloatware, like Acrobat Reader’s inclusion of the manual. Driver installation is easy. Just follow the instructions. Some of manufacturers include overclocking software. Only install that if needed.
Windows 10: Go to Settings > System > Apps and Features. From there, remove any unwanted apps. Windows 7: Go to Settings > Add or Remove Programs and remove any bloatware if you have purchased the system from a vendor (eg: antivirus or other trial ware).
Go to start and in Windows search. Type Turn Windows features on or off. Be very careful what you remove here. Some of the programs listed here are important for your computer. To remove a program, just uncheck the tick box of features you want to remove. Then click OK and wait for the prompt from Windows to restart. Click OK to restart for changes to take effect. It is not drastic but the startup times will improve a bit.
If you created your partition at installation, as described above, no problem. If not, you can create a partition and reinstall old programs even now.
Internet (for browsers like Opera, Firefox, Utorrent, and other download managers) Multimedia (for Photoshop, GIMP, AutoCA, Autodesk Maya, MPC-HC, VLC, Steam, Uplay, etc) Office Utilities (MS office, Libre Office, etc) Programming (Qt, Code::Blocks, etc) Security (Bitdefender, AVAST, etc) Tools & Utilities (WinRAR, Foxit Software, C-Cleaner, 7Zip, ausdiskdefrag, etc) Portable (for any portable apps)
This process doesn’t add any data to the main drive of Windows, and allows startup and performance to be smoother throughout the system. Software like Steam and Uplay can also be installed the same way, but they do need more setup after install. Uplay and Steam by default uses the same folder they’re installed on for installing games. Change this in the Settings panel, to move games to the Games drive you created.
Copy and paste any downloaded attachments and files, large or small, to the Others drive. Library items like Video, Music, Pictures, Documents, and Downloads are all part of C drive, so restrain from adding any items to those.
Some popular antivirus systems are Windows Defender (Windows 8, 8. 1, and 10) and Microsoft Security Essentials (Windows 7).
If you have Nvidia Ge Force, you may have to manually remove some old driver installation files. Information on this can be obtained on the net. Alternatively, you can also use Windows Administrative Tools.
Do not stop Defender if you are only using specific tools, like only an anti-virus program. Defender is a firewall and malware scanner, so don’t stop it if your security program doesn’t handle both of those tasks.
Go to “Control Panel” and click “System & Security”. Click “Power Options” and check “Balanced”. Click on “Change Power settings”. Then click on “Change Advanced Power settings”. In the menu double click on “Power Processor Management”. Double click on “Maximum Processor State” and change from 100% to 98%. The above step will not affect performance.
