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How To Speed Up Windows XP
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2007-03-20
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Windows XP is a line of proprietary operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers.
Disable services
There are quite a few services you can disable from starting automatically. This would be to speed up your boot time and free resources. Here is a tutorial on which services to disable.
Clear Page File on Shutdown
If you want to clear the page file on each shutdown make the following changes.
1. Click Start -> Run...
2. Type regedit and press OK.
3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet -> Control -> Session Manager -> Memory Management.
4. Double click the option ClearPageFileAtShutdown and set the value to 1.
5. Reboot your computer for this tweak to take effect.
Increase Graphics Performance
By default, Windows XP has a lot of shadows, fades and other effects turned on. All together slow down your computer. Therefore you might consider giving up on some of them.
To turn these off selectively:
1. Click Start and right click on My Computer.
2. Select Properties and click on the Advanced tab.
3. Under Performance, click on the Settings button.
4. You can turn them all off, by selecting Adjust for best performance. However you might want to customize them on your likes.
Clean the Prefetch Directory
WindowsXP has a new feature called Prefetch. This keeps a shortcut to recently used programs. However it can fill up with old and obsolete programs. Once a month is good to detele them all.
1. Click Start -> Run... and type prefetch.
2. A window will appear. Select all the files and delete them.
Speed the startup of some CD burner programs
If you use a program other than the native Windows XP CD burner software, you might be able to increase the speed that it loads.
1. Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services.
2. Double click on IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service.
3. For the Startup Type, select Disabled.
4. Click the OK button and then close the Services window.
Decrease boot time
Microsoft has made available a program to analyze and decrease the time it takes to boot to Windows XP. The program is called BootVis.
1. Download BootVis.
2. Install BootVis.
3. Run BootVis.
4. For a starting point, run Trace -> Next Boot + Driver Delays. This will reboot your computer and provide a benchmark.
5. After the reboot, BootVis will take a minute or two to show graphs of your system startup.
6. Then run Trace -> Optimize System.
7. Re-Run the Next Boot + Drive Delays. Note how much the time has decreased.
Increase system performance
If you have 512 MB or more of memory, you can increase system performance by having the core system kept in memory.
1. Start Regedit.
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet -> Control -> Session Manager -> Memory Management.
3. Double click DisablePagingExecutive and set the value to be 1.
4. Reboot the computer.
No GUI Boot
If you don't need to see the XP boot logo, you cand have it removed.
1. Click Start -> Run..., type msconfig and hit Enter.
2. Go to the BOOT.INI tab.
3. Check the box for /NOGUIBOOT.
4. Click Apply.
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| mike says: |
10:07 / 20 mar 2007 |
You might want to read through this page - most of the tips you mentioned will actually degrade performance.Note that this is not my website - I just find it a credible source:http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html
| mike says: |
12:50 / 20 mar 2007 |
You can trigger the optimization part of BootVis without the program just by typing Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks in a Run box.From MS MVP Bill Castner, and http://aumha.org/freeware/freeware.php#bootvis
actually it dont need to be so complicated for it to run fast! Well, my point of view is to install more RAM.....that is the BEST, you need not set up anything and your computer will always be fast....so trust me, buy more RAM!!!!
also run a defrag once a month
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