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Speedup Windows XP in Minutes!
Submitted by ehtisham on Sat, 04/07/2007 - 18:49.
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Sat, 04/07/2007 - 18:49
It's not always wise to upgrade your hardware every time you feel your computer is getting slow.
In fact, Microsoft's operating systems slow down a PC when you have lots of programs installed.
In this tutorial I will tell you some easy tricks to get most out of your hardware.
1. Disable extra startup programs
Several items add up to the start up list when you install different software. Such programs are
loaded when your system boots and remain in memory (RAM), they also continuously use
processor. Here are is what you have to do to make them go away:
• Goto Start>Run
• Type "msconfig", without quotations
• Hit enter key or click the OK button
• A window will show up, you have to click the startup tab, as shown in the figure
• In the Startup tab you will see several boxes and some of them will selected (checked).
All you have to do is to uncheck extra items that are of no use. If you run an antivirus
program it is not recommended to uncheck it.
• After making you choices press the OK button, you will be prompted to restart computer
to apply changes.
• After restarting your computer a dialogue will be displayed. You can check the option for
not showing this dialogue every time your PC reboots.

2. Disable Extra Services

On menu opened by msconfig command, there is also another tab for Services. Click it and
check "Hide All Microsoft Services" option. This option will display you list of third party
services. Uncheck the services that are undesirable. As usual you have to reboot to apply the
changes.
3. Adjust Display Settings
XP has a very cool looking user interface, but it consumes a certain amount of memory. To make
it a little lightweight you have to:
• Right click My Computer and select Properties
• Click the Advanced tab
• Go to Performance>Settings (have to click settings button in the performance section)
• Uncheck all except:
Use visual styles on windows and buttons
Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
Show translucent selection rectangle
Show shadows under mouse pointer
Show shadows under menus
• Finally click Apply and OK

4. Remove Widgets and Background

Different third party widgets and visual styles like for Vista like look and feel make your system
slow. If you remove such packages you system will perform better on CPU and memory
intensive tasks. Selecting default and no wallpaper as background also gives better performance
than that of "high quality" wallpapers.
5. Folder Browsing
When you try to browse folder, Windows automatically searches for printer and network files.
This is a performance overhead. To fix this you have to follow following steps:
• Open My Computer
• Click Tools>Folder Options
• Select the View tab and unselect the check box for Automatically search for network
folders and printers
• Click Apply then OK and finally reboot to apply the change.
6. Indexing Service
Windows XP comes with a very heavy and not so good "Indexing Service". The service "claims"
to makes indexes of different files on your computer so that they can be retrieved easily. The
service consumes a large amount of memory, and it has no major advantage either. To disable it
you have to:
• Go to Start>Control Panel
• Double click Add or Remove programs.
• Select Add/Remove Windows Components, a new dialogue, as shown in the figure, will
appear.
• Uncheck the Indexing Service, if not already unchecked
• Click Next to finalize
7. Size of Page File
Page file size is not constant by default. Due to this operating system has to resize the file each
time when more space is required, this is a performance overhead. All you have to do is to set the
file size to a reasonable limit. Follow the steps:
• Right click My Computer, Select Properties then Advanced tab
• Click the settings button under the performance section
• Click the Advanced tab
• Click Change button under the Virtual memory section
• "Virtual Memory" dialogue will appear (also shown in the figure below)
• Highlight the drive containing page file, which is C: by default
• Select the Custom size radio button and give same values in Initial size and Maximum
size fields.
• Click Set and OK buttons to apply the changes
If your system has a sufficiently large memory (1 or 2 GB) then you can even disable paging.

8. Enable Direct Memory Access (DMA)

Go to:
• Right Click My Computer, select properties
 • Select the Hardware tab
• Click the Device Manager button
• Double click IDE/ATAPI controllers
• Keep on checking if DMA is enabled for each, you have to double click each option click
Advanced Settings tab (as shown in figure) The tab may or may not be available for each
option. It is only available in Primary and Secondary Channels.
• Set the transfer mode to "DMA if Available" both for Device 1 and 0
• Perform the same operation for other items in the list, if applicable.

Note: All of these techniques may not be available to you depending on you access rights on the
system. Contact your system administrator in this regard.
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1. Guest Says:
Sun, 04/08/2007 - 06:29
wow nice tutorial.
i really like it
thanks for sharing
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2. Guest Says:
Sun, 04/08/2007 - 06:38
Tips 1 and 3 were excellent
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3. Guest Says:
Sun, 04/08/2007 - 21:23
Very good. I can definatly tell the difference. Thanks a lot =]
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4. Guest Says:
Sun, 04/08/2007 - 21:42
While I did not know about tip Number 9, most things on here are nothing new.
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5. Guest Says:
Sun, 04/08/2007 - 21:44
IDE ports, how quaint. That tip was useful back in the days of Windows 98.
Today, if your system isn't SATA for at least the hard disks, you're using legacy
hardware,
Also, try reducing the number of drives you have (less indexing, upkeep). As cool as it is
to have 5 drive letters, it's superflouous.
And don't mess with the swap file. Windows knows best how to manage its paging. I
know you think manually managing it helps, but it realy doesn't.
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6. Guest Says:
Sun, 04/08/2007 - 21:46
I especially like tip #8.
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7. Guest Says:
Sun, 04/08/2007 - 21:53
Decent tut, watch your spelling "slow computer sown when".
This a little uninformative though... 'Normal' users don't know what services and
applications they need or do not need, this should not be played with by inexperienced
users. If you are expierenced enough to know these things, I'd hope you wouldn't need
this tutorial. 3 and 4 are good, except for the display settings, I would recommend
unchecking them all. Folder/printer browsing is required for users who have a network...
this should not be disabled to advoid confusion. Indexing is good to turn off. The page
file could be bad if you do not know what you are doing. Keep to the windows size or
follow the common page file of 2x the ram. Make sure min/max are equal. Also DMA is
enabled by default.
Hope you will consider these things if you consider a re-write or new tut.
keep up good work
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8. Guest Says:
Sun, 04/08/2007 - 21:58
Way to be a pretentious dumbass, "meh".
Most people still use IDE drives, as there isn't much of a performance boost. What are we
supposed to do with our old hard drives? throw them away? Dumbass.
Also, he's not recommending you do anything crazy with the swap file, just statically
assigning a size. Logically, it makes sense that it would be faster. Why should I believe
you more than the writer of this article?
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9. Guest Says:
Sun, 04/08/2007 - 23:06
 well done.
can u plz explain more about #9 ? what exactly is DMA memory?
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10. Guest Says:
Sun, 04/08/2007 - 23:27
Good advice. Thanks. I'm not wearing any pants.
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