Comments on: Turn XP into a Blazing Speed Demon

By: Limo Hire Manchester

Limo Hire Manchester — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:12:04 +0000

thank you for all the advice, i will try some of your tips and get back with some feedback.

thanks

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supernatural season 4 — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:21:29 +0000

Thanks for the great tips I will continue reading here!

By: Flights Hotels Resorts

Flights Hotels Resorts — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:44:10 +0000

Great tips. I was just about to throw my XP Laptop. I will try these tips to see how well they work. New XP Service pack is also suppose to speed up XP so you might want to add that to the list.

By: 3G iPhone

3G iPhone — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:00:35 +0000

Nice tips. Haven’t got vista so this will speed up my PC on xp.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:38:44 +0000

All good stuff! And since Vista is such a lemon, valid for time to come.

By: watch friends

watch friends — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:59:24 +0000

I already have 4GB of ram. I only got DDR2 cuz i think DDR3 is too expensive for compared to how fast it is.

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Supermance Dot Com — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:43:43 +0000

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By: Hammad

Hammad — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:32:43 +0000

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By: lh

lh — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:50:17 +0000

This guy disagrees about windows prefetch..

http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000619.html

By: nikev

nikev — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:47:50 +0000

VISTA is resource hog, it really is, if your running Aero, plus the Sidebar, plus Widgets it will suck up your memory, open task manager and check the number of services running on a VISTA installation vs an XP installation, they’re almost doubled on VISTA.

Check out the Black Viper website, you need to read everything that he’s written on VISTA before applying any of his tweaks … otherwise you’ll break something.
http://www.blackviper.com/

By: Cars blog

Cars blog — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:01:40 +0000

nice tips.
but what about vista ?
my vista runs too slow :(

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By: nikev

nikev — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:25:32 +0000

I’m glad you mentioned “Black Viper” because that guy is something of a genius when it comes to tweaking either XP or VISTA, I’ve been using his XP gaming tweak for years, though I would not recommended it for the faint hearted, only the very essential services are left running, everything else is disabled, makes XP very quick indeed!

By: Hammad

Hammad — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:35:20 +0000

Disabling unnecessary services really improved the performance of xp and my pc is alot faster now
thanks

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By: limo hire

limo hire — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:09:41 +0000

This is some good advice. I’m not a Norton fan though, and refuse to believe they can speed up anything!

By: Joseph Plazo

Joseph Plazo — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:31:21 +0000

Yup, file indexing hobbles the system… almost akin to hacking away both legs on a marathon runner.

I just disabled file indexing on my Asus eeePC that runs WinXP. It shuts down almost in 2 seconds. … and most files start up in a second.

Doncha just love those SSD drives?

By: rummuser

rummuser — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:28:50 +0000

This is fantastic advise. Thank you.

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By: Wii

Wii — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:31:23 +0000

It’s quite ironic that there used to be a Norton product out there that actually speeded things up!

The only thing I’ve noticed has made a real difference is the file indexing, definitely faster without it, thanks.

By: Barry Cleave

Barry Cleave — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:30:45 +0000

Generally a good and useful article but clearing out the prefetch files is not a good move.

See here at XP Myths:
http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/XPMyths.html

(Search for Prefetch as there are lots of different “Myths” on the page.

Regards

Barry

By: John French

John French — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:40:49 +0000

Removing unwanted programs that startup with your computer will also reduce boot upo times. Go to run -enter msconfig, click on the startup tab and uncheck any programs you don’t want to start up [be careful here] when you switch your computer on.

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By: SEO Tips

SEO Tips — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:56:28 +0000

I’ve just disabled file indexing, thanks for the tips! Given this a StumbleUpon review and deli.cio.us tag.

By: Pip

Pip — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:54:27 +0000

Great article here and as you say the speed up is fantastic. All the software now for optimizing XP follow most of this but of course yo can do it for free Follow the steps Make your p C feel like new again
Cheers pip