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Many of the problems and speed issues that home users experience are causedby unneeded services. Also many time uninstalled applications still leave behind phantom settings that cause the computer to wait until the requests time out. The following are a number of tweaks and fixes to make your machine run faster.
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1. Stop 'last access update'
Whenever you access a folder on a NTFS drive, Windows XP updates that folder and all subfolders with a time stamp with the date of last access. Sometimes, this can slower windows performance.
To change this, open REGEDIT ( Start -> Run -> 'regedit' ) and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem Create a new DWORD value ( right click -> new -> DDWORD Value ) called 'NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate' and set the value to '1'
2. Disable unnecesary naming convention
For each file created, windows xp use one additional name for MSDOS compatibility: 8 character name followed by a ".", then 3 characters for the extension. If you don't intend to use DOS only software, this is waste of memory.
To change this, open REGEDIT Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem Change the value of the NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation key to '1'
3. Prevent windows to move operating data on virtual memory
By default, windows xp do periodically checks to move its essential driver and kernel files to the virtual memory ( page file ). This obviously slower performances. This should be done only if the system is low on physical Memory.
Open REGEDIT. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management. Select the DisablePagingExecutive value to '1'
4. Disable Performance counters
Windows XP has a performance monitor utility, to track several areas of your PC, including CPU and hard drive. Whenever you do something on your PC, these performance counters tracks everything. These processes from the background makes main processes to run slower.
To change this, you need to download Extensible Performance Counter List utility
First download and install the utility, then run the Exctrlst.exe utility, found in 'c:\program files\resource kit\'
Select each line in the 'Extensible performance counters' window and clear the 'performance counters enabled' button below. You must do this separately for each counter.
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