TURN OFF SYSTEM RESTORE

System Restore can be a useful if your computer is having problems,
however storing all the restore points can literally take up
Gigabytes of space on your hard drive. To turn off System Restore:
Open Control Panel
Click on Performance and Maintenance
Click on System
Click on the System Restore tab
Tick 'Turn off System Restore on All Drives'
Click 'Ok'


DEFRAGMENT YOUR PAGEFILE

Keeping your pagefile defragmented can provide a major performance
boost. One of the best ways of doing this is to creat a separate
partition on your hard drive just for your page file, so that it
doesn't get impacted by normal disk usage. Another way of keeping
your pagefile defragmented is to run PageDefrag. This cool little
app can be used to defrag your pagefile, and can also be set to
defrag the pagefile everytime your PC starts. To install:
Download and Run PageDefrag
Tick "Defrag at next Reboot",
Click "Ok"
Reboot


SPEEDUP FOLDER ACCESS - DISABLE LAST ACCESS UPDATE


If you have a lot of folders and subdirectories on your computer,
when you access a directory XP wastes a lot of time updating the
time stamp showing the last access time for that directory and for
ALL sub directories. To stop XP doing this you need to edit the
registry. If you are uncomfortable doing this then please do not
attempt.

Go to Start and then Run and type "regedit".
Click through the file system until you get to.
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\C ontr ol\FileSystem"
Right-click in a blank area of the window on the right and select
'DWORD Value'.
Create a new DWORD Value called 'NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate'.
Then Right click on the new value and select 'Modify'.
Change the Value Data to '1'.
Click 'OK'.

DISABLE UNNECESSARY SERVICES

DISABLE UNNECESSARY SERVICES

Because Windows XP has to be all things to all people it has many
services running that take up system resources that you will never
need. Below is a list of services that can be disabled on most
machines:
Alerter
Clipbook
Computer Browser
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Fast User Switching
Help and Support - (If you use Windows Help and Support leave this enabled)
Human Interface Access Devices
Indexing Service
IPSEC Services
Messenger
Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing (disabled for extra security)
Portable Media Serial Number
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager (disabled for extra security)
Remote Procedure Call Locator
Remote Registry (disabled for extra security)
Remote Registry Service
Secondary Logon
Routing & Remote Access (disabled for extra security)
Server
SSDP Discovery Service - (Unplug n' Pray will disable this)
Telnet
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Upload Manager
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
Windows Time
Wireless Zero Configuration (Do not disable if you use a wireless network)
Workstation



To disable these services:
Go to Start and then Run and type "services.msc"
Doubleclick on the service you want to change
Change the startup type to 'Disable"

RUN BOOTVIS - IMPROVE BOOT TIMES

BootVis will significantly improve boot times
1. Download and Run
2. Select Trace
3. Select Next Boot and Driver Trace
4. A Trace Repetitions screen will appear, select Ok and Reboot
5. Upon reboot, BootVis will automatically start, analyze and log
your system's boot process. When it's done, in the menu go to Trace
and select Optimize System
6. Reboot.
7. When your machine has rebooted wait until you see the Optimizing
System box appear.

Be patient and wait for the process to complete



REMOVE THE DESKTOP PICTURE

Your desktop background consumes a fair amount of memory and can
slow the loading time of your system. Removing it will improve
performance.
1. Right click on Desktop and select Properties
2. Select the Desktop tab
3. In the Background window select None
4. Click Ok


REMOVE FONTS FOR SPEED

Fonts, especially TrueType fonts, use quite a bit of system
resources. For optimal performance, trim your fonts down to just
those that you need to use on a daily basis and fonts that
applications may require.
1. Open Control Panel
2. Open Fonts folder
3. Move fonts you don't need to a temporary directory (e.g.
C:\FONTBKUP?) just in case you need or want to bring a few of them
back. The more fonts you uninstall, the more system resources you
will gain.

OPTIMISE YOUR PAGEFILE

If you give your pagefile a fixed size it saves the operating
system from needing to resize the page file.

1. Right click on My Computer and select Properties
2. Select the Advanced tab
3. Under Performance choose the Settings button
4. Select the Advanced tab again and under Virtual Memory select
Change
5. Highlight the drive containing your page file and make the
initial Size of the file the same as the Maximum Size of the file.
Windows XP sizes the page file to about 1.5X the amount of actual
physical memory by default. While this is good for systems with
smaller amounts of memory (under 512MB) it is unlikely that a
typical XP desktop system will ever need 1.5 X 512MB or more of
virtual memory. If you have less than 512MB of memory, leave the
page file at its default size. If you have 512MB or more, change
the ratio to 1:1 page file size to physical memory size.

OPTIMISE YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION

There are lots of ways to do this but by far the easiest is to run
TCP/IP Optimizer.
1. Download and install
2. Click the General Settings tab and select your Connection Speed
(Kbps)
3. Click Network Adapter and choose the interface you use to
connect to the Internet
4. Check Optimal Settings then Apply
5. Reboot

IMPROVE MEMORY USAGE

Cacheman Improves the performance of your computer by optimizing
the disk cache, memory and a number of other settings.
Once Installed:
1.Go to Show Wizard and select All
2.Run all the wizards by selecting Next or Finished until you are
back to the main menu. Use the defaults unless you know exactly
what you are doing.
3.Exit and Save Cacheman4.Restart Windows

SPEEDUP FOLDER BROWSING

You may have noticed that everytime you open my computer to browse
folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP
automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you
open Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing
significantly:
1. Open My Computer
2. Click on Tools menu
3. Click on Folder Options
4. Click on the View tab.
5. Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and
printers check box
6. Click Apply
7. Click Ok
8. Reboot your computer

SPEEDUP FOLDER BROWSING

You may have noticed that everytime you open my computer to browse
folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP
automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you
open Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing
significantly:
1. Open My Computer
2. Click on Tools menu
3. Click on Folder Options
4. Click on the View tab.
5. Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and
printers check box
6. Click Apply
7. Click Ok
8. Reboot your computer

DISABLE PERFORMANCE COUNTERS

Windows XP has a performance monitor utility which monitors several
areas of your PC's performance. These utilities take up system
resources so disabling is a good idea.
To disable:
1. download and install the Extensible Performance Counter List

2.Then select each counter in turn in the 'Extensible performance
counters' window and clear the 'performance counters enabled'
checkbox at the bottom.button below.

OPTIMISE DISPLAY SETTINGS

Windows XP can look good but displaying all the visual items can
waste system resources.
To optimise:
1.Go to Start
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Click System
5. Click Advanced tab
6. In the Performance tab click Settings
7. Leave only the following ticked:-
Show shadows under menus
-Show shadows under mouse pointer
- Show translucent selection rectangle
- Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
- Use visual styles on windows and buttons

Disabling Indexing Services

Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts
of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This
system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are
on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for
something on your computer, it will search faster by scanning the
index lists. If you don't search your computer often, or even if
you do search often, this system service is completely unnecessary.

To disable do the following:
1. Go to Start

2. Click Settings

3. Click Control Panel

4. Double-click Add/Remove Programs

5. Click the Add/Remove Window Components

6. Uncheck the Indexing services

7. Click Next

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