JuIcY Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Okay so i had to make a title so weird but hey, if you havnt stumbled, or found this very helpful guide on the internet, you can pretty much be assured once you get to at least number 8, your computer will be at least 25% faster than it was before you read this thread. http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-xp-tips/99-ways-to-make-your-computer-blazingly-fast/ top 10 from site: 1. Defragment your computer hard disk using free tools like SmartDefrag. 2. You should also defragment your Windows pagefile and registry. 3. Clean up hard drive disk space being taken up by temporary files, the recycle bin, hibernation and more. You can also use a tool like TreeSize to determine what is taking up space on your hard drive. 4. Load up Windows faster by using Startup Delayer, a free program that will speed up the boot time of Windows by delaying the startup of programs. 5. Speaking of startup programs, many of them are useless and can be turned off. Use the MSCONFIG utility to disable startup programs. 6. By default, the size of the paging file is controlled by Windows, which can cause defragmentation. Also, the paging file should be on a different hard drive or partition than the boot partition. Read here on the rules for best paging file performance. 7. In Windows XP and Vista, the Windows Search indexing service is turned on for all local hard drives. Turning off indexing is a simple way to increase performance. 8. If you don’t care about all the fancy visual effects in Windows, you can turn them off by going to Performance Options. 9. You can optimize the Windows boot time using a free program called Bootvis from Microsoft. 10. Clean your registry by removing broken shortcuts, missing shared DLLs, invalid paths, invalid installer references and more. Read about the 10 best and free registry cleaners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I AM Your Reason Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 (edited) I do/have done all of those things. Edited February 2, 2010 by JuIcY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuIcY Posted February 2, 2010 Author Share Posted February 2, 2010 Nope go to bed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetiredTacos Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 News to me! Imma try all these tonight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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