HOW TO MAKE FASTER XP

   

 Services You Can Disable::::::::


here are quite a few services you can
disable from starting automatically.
This would be to speed up your boot
time and free resources.
They are only suggestions so I
suggestion you read the description of each one when you run Services
and that you turn them off one at a time.

Some possibilities are:
Alerter
Application Management
Clipbook
Fast UserSwitching
Human Interface Devices
Indexing Service
Messenger
Net Logon
NetMeeting
QOS RSVP
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager Remote Registry
Routing & Remote Access
SSDP Discovery Service
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
Web Client

Cleaning the Prefetch Directory

WindowsXP has a new feature called
Prefetch. This keeps a shortcut to
recently used programs.
However it can fill up with old and
obsolete programs.

To clean this periodically go to:

Star / Run / Prefetch
Press Ctrl-A to highlight all the shorcuts
Delete them

Not Displaying Logon, Logoff, Startup
and Shutdown Status Messages

To turn these off:

Start Regedit
Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionpoliciessystem
If it is not already there, create a DWORD
value named DisableStatusMessages
Give it a value of 1

Clearing the Page File on Shutdown

Click on the Start button
Go to the Control Panel
Administrative Tools
Local Security Policy
Local Policies
Click on Security Options Right hand menu - right click on
"Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory
Pagefile"
Select "Enable"
Reboot

For regedit users.....
If you want to clear the page file on
each shutdown:

Start Regedit
Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession
ManagerMemory
ManagementClearPageFileAtShutdown
Set the value to 1

No GUI Boot

If you don't need to see the XP boot
logo,

Run MSCONFIG
Click on the BOOT.INI tab
Check the box for /NOGUIBOOT

Speeding the Startup of Some CD Burner
Programs

If you use program other than the
native WindowsXP CD Burner software,
you might be able to increase the speed
that it loads.

Go to Control Panel / Administrative
Tools / Services
Double-click on IMAPI CD-Burning COM
Service
For the Startup Type, select Disabled
Click on the OK button and then close the Services window
If you dont You should notice

Getting Rid of Unread Email Messages

Start Regedit
For a single user: Go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUnreadMail
For all users: Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUnreadMail
Create a DWORD key called MessageExpiryDays
Give it a value of 0

Decreasing Boot Time

Microsoft has made available a program
to analyze and decrease the time it takes
to boot to WindowsXP
The program is called BootVis

Uncompress the file.
Run BOOTVIS.EXE
For a starting point, run Trace / Next
Boot + Driver Delays
This will reboot your computer and
provide a benchmark After the reboot, BootVis will take a
minute or two to show graphs of your
system startup.
Note how much time it takes for your
system to load (click on the red vertical
line)
Then run Trace / Optimize System
Re-Run the Next Boot + Drive Delays
Note how much the time has decreased
Mine went from approximately 33 to 25
seconds.

Increasing Graphics Performance

By default, WindowsXP turns on a lot of
shadows, fades, slides etc to menu
items.

Most simply slow down their display.

To turn these off selectively:

Right click on the My Computer icon
Select Properties
Click on the Advanced tab
Under Performance, click on the Settings
button
To turn them all of, select Adjust for best performance
My preference is to leave them all off
except for Show shadows under mouse
pointer and Show window contents
while dragging

Increasing System Performance

If you have 512 megs or more of
memory, you can increase system
performance
by having the core system kept in
memory.

Start Regedit
Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession
ManagerMemory
ManagementDisablePagingExecutive
Set the value to be 1 Reboot the computer

Increasing File System Caching

To increase the amount of memory
Windows will locked for I/O operations:

Start Regedit
Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession
ManagerMemory Management
Edit the key IoPageLockLimit

Resolving Inability to Add or Remove
Programs

If a particular user cannot add or
remove programs, there might be a
simple registry edit neeed.

Go to
HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesUninstall
Change the DWORD
NoAddRemovePrograms to 0 disable it

4096 - 32megs of memory or less
8192 - 32+ megs of memory
16384 - 64+ megs of memory
32768 - 128+ megs of memory 65536 - 256+ megs of memory