More Ways To Speed Up Windows XP
Speed Up Boot Times III
When your computer boots up it usually has to check with the network to see what IP addresses are free and then it grabs one of these. By configuring a manually assigned IP address your boot time will improve. To do this do the following:
- Click on ‘Start’ and then ”Connect To/Show All Connections’
- Right-click your network adapter card and click ‘Properties’
- On the ‘General’ tab, select ‘TCP/IP’ in the list of services and click ‘Properties’
- In the TCP/IP properties, click ‘Use the following address’ and enter an IP address for your PC. If you are using a router this is usually 192.168.0.xx or 192.168.1.xx. If you are not sure what address you could check with your ISP or go to ‘Start/run’ and type ‘cmd’ and then ‘ipconfig/all’. This will show your current IP settings which you will need to copy
- Enter the correct details for ‘Subnet mask’, ‘Default gateway’ and ‘DNS Server’. Again if you are not sure what figures to enter use ‘ipconfig/all’ as in stage 4.
Free Up Memory
I found this useful app via FixMyXP. ClearMem is an Excellent Tool for speeding up your XP Computer (especially if your system has been on for awhile and you have a lot of applications open). What it does, is it Forces pages out of physical memory and reduces the size of running processes if working sets to a minimum. When you run this tool, the system pauses because of excessive high-priority activity associated with trimming
the working sets. To run this tool, your paging file must be at least as large as physical memory. To check your Paging File:
- Go to your control panel, then click on ‘System’, then go to the ‘Advanced’ Tab, and Under ‘Performance’ click ‘Settings’ then the ‘Advanced’ Tab
- On the Bottom you should see ‘Virtual Memory’ and a value. This is the value that must be at least as large as how much memory is in your system
- If the Virtual Memory Value is smaller than your system memory, click Change and change the Min Virtual Memory to a number that is greater than your total system memory, then click ‘Set’ and Reboot
- Once you have rebooted install ClearMem
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Comment by Everton on 11 May 2008:
@caf
CCleaner etc don’t clear out the crap every boot automatically. If you have more than one user, then add a line to the batch file for each user.
Comment by Caf on 11 May 2008:
About this part:
Speed Up Boot Times I
This tweak works by creating a batch file to clear the temp and history folders everytime you shutdown so that your PC doesn’t waste time checking these folders the next time it boots. It’s quite simple to implement:
1. Open Notepad and create a new file with the following entries:
* RD /S /q “C:\Documents and Settingsâ€UserName without quotesâ€\Local Settings\Historyâ€
* RD /S /q “C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\Historyâ€
* RD /S /q “D:\Temp†<–â€Deletes temp folder, type in the location of your temp folderâ€
Where is the temp folder you are referring to for example windows has one by its own, each user has it’s own and do you mean temp folder or temporary internet files, which temp folder do you mean, and there are programs out there to delete these things(CCleaner,Index.dat Analyzer
Comment by Micah on 5 November 2007:
XP must die
Comment by Matt on 3 November 2007:
good tips
add to bookmark
thanks