24 METHODS TO SPEED UP YOUR WINDOWS XP

Here are 24 tips on how to speed up your Windows XP. Note:I recall that changing the various options and settings without understanding what and how they can influence, is very easy to spoil everything. Therefore, first of all you need to worry about safety and benefit of Windows XP available for this all means for backing up: Backup, System Restore, ASR.


Before you start, pardon my English and don't forget to back up!


The purpose of below tips to save the installed Windows XP Pro from quite unnecessary for home users to speed up the decorations and the whole system work. These 25 boards, only a fraction of what can be done to optimize and accelerate Windows XP.


1) We recover the classic style Start menu: right click the mouse on taskbar, "Properties" tab "Start Menu, choose" Classic Start menu, "OK."


2) Clicking the right mouse button on the scratch the screen, the menu item "Properties" tab "Appearance." Choose "Classic style" windows and buttons. Push the button "Effects." Remove all except the last.


3) In the Control Panel, choose "Folder Options." In the new window select "Use a normal folder" Windows "- it will get rid of extra decorations, which slow down the process of navigation. Turn into" View "tab. Put a check in the" Do not cache thumbnails "- except when viewing folders with image files, Windows will trash its miniature copies of pictures of ticks in the "Display" Control Panel "folder in" My Computer ", remove the checkboxes next to" Remember each folder display options (optional) and "Hide protected operating system files", select the option "Show hidden files and folders. "


4) In the Control Panel, select System. In the Advanced tab in the "Performance" click the button "Options." In the window that appears, select "Visual Effects" and remove all ticks.


5) Turn off error reports. Call "System Properties" tab and "Advanced" - "Error Reporting", select the "Disable Error Reporting."


6) To remove Windows Messenger. Each time you boot Messenger also starts, slows down the process of loading, devouring system resources. At the command prompt Start - Run type the following: «RunDll32 advpack.dll, LaunchINFSection% windir% INF msmsgs.inf, BLC.Remove» and press «OK». After you restart Windows Messenger on your computer you will not find.


7) Establish the optimum value of the paging file. "System Properties" - "Advanced" - "speed" - "Advanced" - "Virtual Memory" - "Change". Initial Size and Maximum recommended the same place. For ordinary work is multiplied by the amount of memory available for 1.5. To play the memory required in two, two and a half times more.


8) reduces the time delay before the disclosure of nested menus. Start - Run type "regedit". In the registry find the HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop. Parameter MenuShowDelay change from 400 to 0.


9) Remove unnecessary programs from Startup. Start - Run type "msconfig". The tab "Startup" - uncheck some of those programs that you do not want.


10), empty folder, "prefetch" - C: windows prefetch. This folder contains links to run applications and programs. Some links are no longer used or used rarely, but when booting the system checks for the existence of links in this folder. Over time, the number of links in that folder increases by so much that the system requires more time for review. Emptying the folder will accelerate the speed of your system. Not recommended after cleaning to make a folder, restart the system. This will worsen the performance.


11) Disable indexing. Opens «My Computer», click the right mouse button on the hard drive icon and select «Properties». In the new window remove the tick «Allow indexing disk for fast searching». After pressing the button «Apply» or «OK» A new window appears in which you will be asked whether to apply the selected attributes only to the current drive, or to put files and folders as well. As a result, the system will run slightly faster. Applicable only for disks with file system NTFS.


12) Windows XP files are considered "Zip" folder - this is handy if you have a fast computer. On a slow system, you can force Windows XP to give up this possibility (if you have any other archive, such as "RAR"), by typing in the command line "regsvr32 / u zipfldr.dll". All the back, you can command "regsvr32 zipfldr.dll".


13) Change the priority of interrupt requests (IRQ). Increasing the priority of CMOS-RAM and real-time clock, you can increase the productivity of all elements of the motherboard. Open "System Properties" - "Equipment" button "Device Manager". Now open the properties of a particular device, and select the "Resources". Here you can see what IRQ number used by the selected device. Note the number of interrupts, and close all windows. Run RegEdit. Locate the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / System / CurrentControlSet / Control / PriorityControl. Create a new DWORD key IRQ # Priority (where '#' number IRQ) and set it to «1». For example, in our case, IRQ08 is reserved for System CMOS. Therefore, we have established key IRQ8Priority.


14) Disconnecting not use the subsystem "POSIX" may slightly increase performance. Run "Regedit". Open the Registry Editor, in the branch HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control SessionManager SubSystems and delete rows and Optional Posix.


15) Do not record the last access to file (only NTFS). Accelerates access to directories with many files. In Registry Editor, "Regedit" HKLM SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control FileSystem parameter NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate, the value of "1"


16) Do not use a swap file to store the kernel. By default, WinXP unloads kernel and drivers in the system paging file, if they are not used. With this option you can specify WinXP store the kernel and system driver is always in memory. Run "Regedit" HKLM SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control Session Manager Memory Management option DisablePagingExecutive, "1" - do not use the swap file to store the kernel of the system, "0" - to use


17) Automatically download does not use the library. This feature helps to release the memory. Run "Regedit" HKLM SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer option AlwaysUnloadDLL, the value of "1" - unload the library, the value of "0" - do not unload. value 1 - download the library, the value 0 - do not unload a value of 1 - download the library, the value 0 - do not unload. Note: may crash the system when this option is enabled.


18) Use Fast User Switching. If this option is enabled, when switching to another user, the program user will continue to work. Otherwise, the program will be automatically turned off when the user logs out, and with the user of the computer will run faster. Run "Regedit" HKLM SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion Winlogon parameter AllowMultipleTSSessions, the value of "1" - to use the Fast User Switching


19) Turn off the built-debugger Dr. Watson. If this option is turned off, the error in the program will display an appropriate error message with OK and Cancel buttons when you press OK - the application is completed, and when you click on the abolition of the debugger is started. In Registry Editor, "Regedit" HKLM SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion AeDebug option "Auto" hold "0"


20) Do not keep history of open documents. Do not keep history of recently used documents. Windows XP creates a folder in Documents and Settings % USERNAME% Recent shortcuts to executable programs. You can turn off this feature if you do not use them. Run "Regedit" HKCU Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Policies Explorer option NoRecentDocsHistory, the value of "1"-story is not being


21) Automatically terminate frozen applications. This option is used for the automatic closing without any warning of frozen programs. Convenient when you close the computer, if the application does not respond, then do not click on the button to complete it. Run "Regedit" HKCU Control Panel Desktop option AutoEndTasks, the value of "1" - will automatically terminate frozen applications, "0" - wait for user input


22) Turn off the message of the lack of free disk space. Do not issue a message of lack of space. It makes sense to use this option on the disk size. Run "Regedit" HKCU Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Policies Explorer option, NoLowDiskSpaceChecks, the value of "1" - the message is disabled, "0" - enabled


23) Blocking automatic updating in Windows Media Player. Windows Media Player periodically establishes a connection via the Internet to verify the existence of a new version of the program (Tools-Options-frame Automatic updates). You can disable this feature in Windows Media Player. Run "Regedit" HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Policies Microsoft WindowsMediaPlayer parameter DisableAutoUpdate, the value of "1".


24) The release of the channel (bandwidth), reserved for the service QoS. Windows XP by default allocates part of the Internet channel for the Quality of Service (QoS). Assigning QoS - to improve traffic distribution programs written in the light of QoS API. These programs do not find, so the backup channel for the unnecessary service - a luxury. In order to relieve an already narrow channel home Internet connection, click Start -> Run, run the Group Policy Editor gpedit.msc. To perform you must be a system administrator. Under "Computer Configuration, click Administrative Templates", then "Network" and then in the right pane, select the «manager packages QoS» and click on it twice. Select "Limit the reserved bandwidth, and again, click on it twice. In the new window, turn on Enabled, and then specify the limit of the channel as a percentage equal to zero, click OK and exit the program. Open the "Network Connections" in Control Panel, open the properties of your connection and on the "Network", make sure that the protocol Planner packages QoS "is connected. If it's not there, then add from the list and restart the computer.