10 Simple Ways To Speed Up Windows XP
Everton | Dec 03, 2005 | Comments 162
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4. 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:
- download and install the Extensible Performance Counter List
- Then select each counter in turn in the ‘Extensible performance counters’ window and clear the ‘performance counters enabled’ checkbox at the bottom.button below
5. Improve Memory Usage
Cacheman Improves the performance of your computer by optimizing the disk cache, memory and a number of other settings.
Once Installed:
- Go to Show Wizard and select All
- 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
- Exit and Save Cacheman
- Restart Windows
6. Optimise your internet connection
There are lots of ways to do this but by far the easiest is to run TCP/IP Optimizer.
- Download and install
- Click the General Settings tab and select your Connection Speed (Kbps)
- Click Network Adapter and choose the interface you use to connect to the Internet
- Check Optimal Settings then Apply
- Reboot
7. Optimise Your Pagefile
If you give your pagefile a fixed size it saves the operating system from needing to resize the page file.
- Right click on My Computer and select Properties
- Select the Advanced tab
- Under Performance choose the Settings button
- Select the Advanced tab again and under Virtual Memory select Change
- 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.
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I’ve been banging my head against Vista for months. I’m probably the only person in the world who likes it over Xp, although XP was always faster.
Alot of your tips work well for Windows Vista (but needed some tweaking), and Ive managed to speed my Vista laptop up considerably.
Thanks!
Thanks for that – I still use XP in preference to Vista as it’s a lot faster, but even so it does slow down a lot over time compared to when I first installed it so any tips to crank the speed back up are much appreciated!
Vista aint slower then XP…
If you configure it correctly, its faster.
Also disabling the Wallpaper is bullshit…
No one runs an XP System with less then 256MB of ram, and then the Wallpaper doesnt even affect the spead if you measure it…
i run XP at 128MB of ram,an so do others.so it’s not true when you say that no one runs XP with less than 256MB of ram.
there are things you can get rid of in the registry to speed up your machine and turn off services that are not needed, for example you can make help and support manual and stop the service meaning it want start but is available if needed, to change the registry is easy to follow the steps
start
run
type in regedit
expand HKEY_local_machine
expand Software
expand microsoft
expand windows
expand current version
click run
in here is evrything that starts on start up you should be able to tell what you can delete things like quicktime itunes real player just be careful if you can tell what it is dont do it. this will also work with vista
I have also set up a blog which shows you how to tweak your Windows XP and which software to run to speed it up.
Check it out
http://debianguru.blogspot.com.
Thanks, this stuff actually works!
defragmentation also increases speed of a PC by using software tuneup utility
Thanks. I noticed significant improvement in my PC’s speed after following some of your tips.
yeah, worked for me as well
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I’ve optimized! My computer runs smother now. Thanks for the advice on the matter. It took me no time.