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More about your settings options

Step 1: Postpone automatic maintenance tasks until later

Maintenance measures that start automatically in the background are important for the maintenance of

your computer, but are not usually urgent. They can be carried out at a later date to free up the resources

needed for your programs.

In this step, you can configure the following settings:

Postpone scheduled defragmentation: This will prevent the scheduled hard disk defragmentation by Micro-

soft or other well-known manufacturers from starting when Turbo Mode is on.

Postpone scheduled maintenance tasks: This will prevent automatic maintenance tasks and scheduled

tasks for Microsoft and other manufacturers from being carried out when Turbo Mode is on. This includes

TuneUp Automatic Maintenance and the automatic creation of backups.

Postpone automatic updates:If you select this option, you will be notified that program updates are avail-

able but these will not be automatically downloaded or installed while Turbo Mode is on.

Step 2: Limit connection with external devices

Every computer has many services running in the background that detect connected devices and provide

you with the necessary functions to use these devices. You can limit this support and have more resources

available for your programs.

In this step, you can configure the following settings:

Turn off synchronization with mobile devices: This setting will prevent synchronization of addresses, e-

mails, music files, etc. with your cell phone or portable media player and the related program will not start

automatically when the device is connected while Turbo Mode is on.

Limit support for digital cameras and scanners: When Turbo Mode is on, you cannot import images from

your digital camera or scan images.

Step 3: Reduce visual effects

Visual effects provide a graphical display of Windows but take up valuable space in the memory. Particularly

with a low performance graphics card you can increase the computer's performance by turning off visual

effects.

Tip:This is a popular way of increasing the performance of netbooks on a sustained basis.

In this step, you can configure the following settings:

Disable the use of Aero designs for older programs:This setting prevents the appearance of older pro-

grams from being converted into the new style of Windows Vista and Windows 7 when Turbo Mode is on.

Switch to classic window design:This setting uses the classic Windows design for the appearance of win-

dows, menus and buttons when Turbo Mode is on, and transparency effects and thumbnails of windows in

the taskbar are disabled.

Switch to classic window design:This setting uses the classic Windows design for the appearance of win-

dows, menus and buttons when Turbo Mode is on, and the colorful Windows XP interface is disabled.

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