How To Make XP Go Faster

<b style="background-color: #351c75;"><span style="color: white;"> Services You Can Disable</span></b><br /> There are quite a few services you can disable from starting automatically.<br /> This would be to speed up your boot time and free resources.<br /> They are only suggestions so I suggestion you read the description of each one when you run Services<br /> and that you turn them off one at a time.<br /> <br /> Some possibilities are:<br /> Alerter<br /> Application Management<br /> Clipbook<br /> Fast UserSwitching<br /> Human Interface Devices<br /> Indexing Service<br /> Messenger<br /> Net Logon<br /> NetMeeting<br /> QOS RSVP<br /> Remote Desktop Help Session Manager<br /> Remote Registry<br /> Routing & Remote Access<br /> SSDP Discovery Service<br /> Universal Plug and Play Device Host<br /> Web Client<br /> <br /> <br /> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> <br /> Cleaning the Prefetch Directory<br /> <br /> WindowsXP has a new feature called Prefetch. This keeps a shortcut to recently used programs.<br /> However it can fill up with old and obsolete programs.<br /> <br /> To clean this periodically go to:<br /> <br /> Star / Run / Prefetch<br /> Press Ctrl-A to highlight all the shorcuts<br /> Delete them<br /> <br /> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> <br /> Not Displaying Logon, Logoff, Startup and Shutdown Status Messages<br /> <br /> To turn these off:<br /> <br /> Start Regedit<br /> Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionpoliciessystem<br /> If it is not already there, create a DWORD value named DisableStatusMessages<br /> Give it a value of 1<br /> <br /> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> Clearing the Page File on Shutdown<br /> <br /> Click on the Start button<br /> Go to the Control Panel<br /> Administrative Tools<br /> Local Security Policy<br /> Local Policies<br /> Click on Security Options<br /> Right hand menu - right click on "Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile"<br /> Select "Enable"<br /> Reboot<br /> <br /> For regedit users.....<br /> If you want to clear the page file on each shutdown:<br /> <br /> Start Regedit<br /> Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory ManagementClearPageFileAtShutdown<br /> Set the value to 1<br /> <br /> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> <br /> No GUI Boot<br /> <br /> If you don't need to see the XP boot logo,<br /> <br /> Run MSCONFIG<br /> Click on the BOOT.INI tab<br /> Check the box for /NOGUIBOOT<br /> <br /> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> Speeding the Startup of Some CD Burner Programs<br /> <br /> If you use program other than the native WindowsXP CD Burner software,<br /> you might be able to increase the speed that it loads.<br /> <br /> Go to Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Services<br /> Double-click on IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service<br /> For the Startup Type, select Disabled<br /> Click on the OK button and then close the Services window<br /> If you dont You should notice<br /> <br /> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> <br /> Getting Rid of Unread Email Messages<br /> <br /> To remove the Unread Email message by user's login names:<br /> <br /> Start Regedit<br /> For a single user: Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUnreadMail<br /> For all users: Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUnreadMail<br /> Create a DWORD key called MessageExpiryDays<br /> Give it a value of 0<br /> <br /> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> <br /> Decreasing Boot Time<br /> <br /> Microsoft has made available a program to analyze and decrease the time it takes to boot to WindowsXP<br /> The program is called BootVis<br /> <br /> Uncompress the file.<br /> Run BOOTVIS.EXE<br /> For a starting point, run Trace / Next Boot + Driver Delays<br /> This will reboot your computer and provide a benchmark<br /> After the reboot, BootVis will take a minute or two to show graphs of your system startup.<br /> Note how much time it takes for your system to load (click on the red vertical line)<br /> Then run Trace / Optimize System<br /> Re-Run the Next Boot + Drive Delays<br /> Note how much the time has decreased<br /> Mine went from approximately 33 to 25 seconds.<br /> <br /> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> Increasing Graphics Performance<br /> <br /> By default, WindowsXP turns on a lot of shadows, fades, slides etc to menu items.<br /> Most simply slow down their display.<br /> <br /> To turn these off selectively:<br /> <br /> Right click on the My Computer icon<br /> Select Properties<br /> Click on the Advanced tab<br /> Under Performance, click on the Settings button<br /> To turn them all of, select Adjust for best performance<br /> My preference is to leave them all off except for Show shadows under mouse pointer and Show window contents while dragging<br /> <br /> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> <br /> Increasing System Performance<br /> <br /> If you have 512 megs or more of memory, you can increase system performance<br /> by having the core system kept in memory.<br /> <br /> Start Regedit<br /> Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory ManagementDisablePagingExecutive<br /> Set the value to be 1<br /> Reboot the computer<br /> <br /> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> <br /> Increasing File System Caching<br /> <br /> To increase the amount of memory Windows will locked for I/O operations:<br /> <br /> Start Regedit<br /> Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory Management<br /> Edit the key IoPageLockLimit<br /> <br /> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> <br /> Resolving Inability to Add or Remove Programs<br /> <br /> If a particular user cannot add or remove programs, there might be a simple registry edit neeed.<br /> <br /> Go to HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesUninstall<br /> Change the DWORD NoAddRemovePrograms to 0 disable it<br /> <br /> 4096 - 32megs of memory or less<br /> 8192 - 32+ megs of memory<br /> 16384 - 64+ megs of memory<br /> 32768 - 128+ megs of memory<br /> 65536 - 256+ megs of memory

How To Make XP Go Faster

 Services You Can Disable There are quite a few services you can disable from starting automatically. This would be to speed up your boot time and free resources. They are only suggestions so I suggestion you read the description of each one when you run Services and that you turn them off one at a …

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