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<p><font size="3">Many may think that increasing RAM, upgrading to Core 2 Duo,
can lead to a super fast Computing stuff. But after doing a little research in
Internet I have found out that XP is the most tweakable OS which if properly
tweaked can lead to a much faster performance witout upgrading ur parts. So in
a nutshell I will tell you some of the tweaks which You yourselves can try it
out.......................</font></p>
<p> </p>
<h1><font size="4">Adjust Graphics for Speed:</font></h1>
<ul>
<li>
<p><font size="3">Windows XP has a lot of new cool looking visual elements,
however, those new elements take up more RAM and cause your computer to be less
responsive. By tweaking your graphics settings, you can increase the
performance of your computer.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">To get started, Let's reduce the color quality. This setting
determines how many colors are displayed on your screen. </font></p>
</li>
<li><font size="3">Right click on your desktop and select
properties.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Click on the settings tab and adjust the color quality drop
down box to Medium (16 Bit).</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Click OK.</font></li>
</ul>
<p><font size="3">Next, let's use the windows performance settings to optimize
your computer for performance. This will revert back to the old Windows 2000
look as well as take away a lot of the fancy graphics effects. However, if you
are really into performance, this is the price you have to pay.</font></p>
<ol>
<li><font size="3">Right click on the My Computer icon on your desktop or in
your start panel and select properties.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Next, Click on the Advanced tab and hit the setting button
under performance.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">On the visual effects tab, select Adjust for Best
Performance and hit OK.</font></li>
<li><font size="3">Hit OK once more to exit system properties.</font></li>
</ol>
<p><font size="3">Now your computer will run slightly faster!</font></p>
<h1>Classic Start Menu Mode (Browsing Boost)</h1>
<p> </p>
<p><font size="3">WARNING: Keep in mind that this tweak is intended for people
using the "Classic Start Menu" mode to browse trough the Start Menu.<br>
<br>
If your Start Menu loads right away when you click on it, but goes slow while
you browse trough it, this will certainly solve your problem. It's quite simple
actually, just follow these steps:<br>
<br>
1. Right Click on your taskbar and choose "Properties"<br>
2. Choose the "Start Menu" Tab and then click on "Customize"(Classic Start Menu
:) Obviously)<br>
3. Scroll Down the "Advanced Start Menu Options" list and uncheck the "Use
Personalized Menus" option, click "OK", then "Apply" and "OK" to finish.<br>
<br>
There's no need to reboot, you'll see the difference right away. Another good
advice to keep you start menu working smooth is to restrict the number of
programs and icons listed as much as possible, keep in mind that it works just
like any other regular folder, the less you index, the faster it
gets.</font></p>
<p> </p>
<h1>Clean your prefetch to improve performance</h1>
<p><font size="3">This is an unique technique for WinXP. We know that it is
necessary to wash registry and TEMP files for Win9X/ME/2000 periodly. Prefetch
is a new and very useful technique in Windows XP. However, after using XP some
time, the prefetch folder can get full of rarely used or obsolete links which
can slow down your computer noticeably. My suggestion is: open C(system
drive):/windows/prefetch, delete all files (or at least those more than 3 weeks
old), reboot. I recommended that you do this every month.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">Editor Note: Deleting prefetch files too often (Every
reboot) can decrease system performance!</font></p>
<p> </p>
<h1>Decrease your Applications startup time</h1>
<p><font size="3">By default, Microsoft includes the /prefetch:1 switch to
speed up it's Windows Media Player application start time. This switch can be
used for other Windows applications and also many third party
programs.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">Example #1</font></p>
<p><font size="3">You have AOL 8.0 installed on the computer. Complete the
steps outlined bewlo to add the /prefetch:1 switch to AOL's Target
path.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">1. Right click on the AOL shortcut and select properties from
the menu.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">2. In the Target: Field add the /prefetch:1 switch to the
very end of the path, like this: "C:Program FilesAmerica Online 8.0aol.exe"
/prefetch:1 and then click ok.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">Now start AOL. It would load at least 50 times faster than
ever before.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">Example #2</font></p>
<p><font size="3">1, Go to the Start button/All Programs/Accessories/System
Tools</font></p>
<p><font size="3">2. Right click on System Restore and select properties from
the menu that appears. Add the /prefetch:1 to the Target Path entry so it looks
like this %ystemRoot%System32 estore strui.exe /prefetch:1 and click
ok.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">Now System Restore will start immediately when
executed.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">Note: This switch will only work with some programs. Others
will return a message saying the program in the target box is invalid. Just
remove the switch (by Allan, forum admin).</font></p>
<p> </p>
<h1>Disable automatic updating</h1>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p align="center"><img alt="" src=
"http://www.tweakxp.com/timg/updates.jpg"></p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="left"><font size="3">To save memory and CPU time turn off the
automatic update system in windows. You can always check manually for updates
and most users have no problem with that. For those of you lazy bums out there
you can leave this feature on but I warned you.<br>
Open control panel.<br>
(if using XPstyle control panel, click onperformance and
maintenance.)</font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="3">Click onSystem.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="3">Then click on the automatic updates tab and
selectTurn off automatic updating. If Service Pack 1 is installed uncheckKeep
my computer up to date.</font><br>
<font size="3">ClickOk</font></p>
<p align="left"> </p>
<h1>Gaming Machine: Hardware Profile to free up System Resources</h1>
<p><font size="3">Instead of disabling HW and stopping services, let's say for
gaming, create a Hardware Profile.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">Right click on My Computer - select Properties. Select
Hardware Tab, then click Hardware Profiles.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">Mark "Original Configuration", then Copy and then Rename to
e.g "Game" Now you have created a menu that shows up when you boot your
computer. Set the properties for your boot option in the "Hardware profiles
selections" You normally would boot with the Original Configuration. Never
delete your "Original Configuration" if you boot in another profile. Reboot
your computer to see that this takes effect.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">Now, to tweak the different services for a Game
Machine listed in this document</font></p>
<p><a href="http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/display.asp?id=114"><font color=
"#002BB8" size=
"3">http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/display.asp?id=114</font></a></p>
<p><font size="3">Select each service to configure, right-click, select
Properties, Choose "Log on" tab. In the lower part of this box select "Disable"
or "Enable" dependent on which hardware profile you configure. If you configure
for "Game" you choose "Disable" to free up system resources.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">Careful: You can also disable/enable different hardware in
the Device Manager - "Device Usage" box according to what Hardware profile you
boot on, this is only recommended if you have any hardware that causes problems
for games, etc.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">Also; if you configure Virtual Memory according to this
document<a href=
"http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/display.asp?id=203"><font color="#002BB8">http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/display.asp?id=203</font></a><br>
you should set "Initial Memory" and the "Maximum" to be the same to avoid this
pagefile to be defragmented, i.e you get better performance. Use 384 MB
pagefile if you have installed 256 MB RAM. (256MBx1.5=384MB,
Microsoft.)</font></p>
<p><font size="3">If you used XP "clean-up" on your hardisk, then defragmented
it, the PC would perform even better. Enjoy.</font></p>
<p> </p>
<h1>Disable Indexing Services</h1>
<p> </p>
<p><font size="3">Indexing services is a small program that hogs HUGE amounts
of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system
process indexing and updates lists of the files on your system, so you can
search for them quickly, but it's completley unnessesary.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">To disable it, go to the Control Panel and click Add/Remove
Programs. Click the Add/Remove Window Components. Simply unclick the Indexing
services and click next!</font></p>
<p><font size="3">Indexing service creates a database index of all files on
your system when the system is otherwise idle. Unless you do frequent searches,
it is suggested you disable this service.</font></p>
<p><br>
<font size="4">Disable Recent Documents History</font></p>
<hr width="100%" size="2">
<p><font size="3">Normally when you open or access a document or file it is
added to the list of recent documents on the Start Menu. This tweak will stop
files from being added to the list.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">Open your registry and find the key below.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value called
'NoRecentDocsHistory' set the value to equal '1' to enable the
restriction.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">Exit your registry, you may need to restart for the changes
to take effect.</font></p>
<p><u><font size="3">Registry Settings:</font></u></p>
<p> </p>
<p><font size="3"><a href=
"javascript:popuphelp('registry-settings','user_key')"><font color=
"#002BB8">User Key:</font></a>
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\<br>
Explorer]<br>
<a href="javascript:popuphelp('registry-settings','system_key')"><font color=
"#002BB8">System Key:</font></a>
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\<br>
Explorer]<br>
<a href="javascript:popuphelp('registry-settings','value_name')"><font color=
"#002BB8">Value Name:</font></a> NoRecentDocsHistory<br>
<a href="javascript:popuphelp('registry-settings','date_type')"><font color=
"#002BB8">Data Type:</font></a> REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)<br>
<a href="javascript:popuphelp('registry-settings','value_data')"><font color=
"#002BB8">Value Data:</font></a> (0 = disable restriction, 1 = enable
restriction)</font></p>
<p> </p>
<h1>Disable Search from looking in zip (compressed) files</h1>
<p><font size="3">Windows XP Search can get slow if you have a lot of
compressed files on your hard drive. Speed up your searches by disabling this.
Open the Run command and type the following:</font></p>
<p><font size="3">regsvr32 c:\winnt\\system32\zipfldr.dll /u or</font></p>
<p><font size="3">regsvr32 c:\windows\\system32\zipfldr.dll /u if installed in
the windows directory</font></p>
<p><font size="3">To turn this feature back on:</font></p>
<p><font size="3">regsvr32 c:\winnt\\system32\zipfldr.dll or</font></p>
<p><font size="3">regsvr32 c:\windows\\system32\zipfldr.dll if installed in the
windows directory</font></p>
<p> </p>
<h1>Open Outlook Express faster</h1>
<p><font size="3">For some users when they remove windows messenger or just
disable it from starting up automatically they experience a great slow down
when launching Outlook express. Users who experience such a slow down will find
a error in the system error log saying The server
{FB7199AB-79BF-11D2-8D94-0000F875C541} did not register with DCOM within the
required timeout.</font></p>
<p><font size="3">The solution to this problem is quite simple. Just Open up
regedit and search for the string {FB7199AB-79BF-11D2-8D94-0000F875C541} and
modify the keys InProcServer32 and LocalServer32 default key to a empty
string.</font></p>