99 Windows Xp Performance Tips

Is your desktop PC or laptop continuously running slow?

Want it to run faster and more efficiently?

Don't buy additional memory or ram until you have learnt this!

The problem is not always hardware related. The 99 windows xp performance tips will increase the overall speed and optimize your system to peak performance.

Contents include:

Preparing Your System (1-8)

1. Use 'whole system' performance benchmarks
2. Tweak insurance part 1: backing up and editing the registry
3. Tweak Insurance part 2: Creating a system restore point
4. Saving your hard drive space from the system restore utility
5. Tweak insurance part 3: Restoring BIOS defaults
6. Tweak insurance part 4: Use hardware profiles to experiment with system settings.
7. Editing BIOS settings
8. Editing registry settings without restarting

BIOS tweaks and Insight (9-13)

1. Change memory Latency times
2. Set the correct AGP mode
3. Update your bios
4. Disable unneeded ports
5. Disable built-in features on your motherboard

Overclocking your processor and memory (14-16)

1. Overclocking the memory/front side bus
2. Changing the CPU multiplier
3. Modify Processor and memory voltage

Windows XP Software and Registry Performance Tweaks (17-46)

1. Stop the 'last access update' stamp
2. Disable the 8.3 naming convention
3. Keep Windows operating data in main memory
4. Obtain the newest drivers for your hardware
5. Disable performance counters
6. Move the page file from system drive
7. Create a 'permanent' page file
8. Optimize your page file size
9. Defrag page file with PageDefrag utility
10. Set priority for important programs
11. Check your hard drives with scandisk
12. Force XP to unload DLL files after closing a program
13. Thaw out your desktop
14. Speed up mouse movement, part 1
15. Speed up mouse movement, part 2
16. Create a RAID configuration
17. Disable the themes service
18. Remove the desktop picture
19. Change to the NTFS file system
20. Perform a manual Application and Boot file Defrag
21. Disable the hibernation feature
22. Disable automatic sensing on network cards
23. Use the prefetch switch to load applications faster
24. Verify DMA mode is set for all drives
25. Do a windows repair install
26. Stop hard disks spinning down
27. Reduce recycling bin reserved space
28. Enable write caching on hard disks
29. Defragment your hard disk(s)
30. Turn off the indexing service


Graphics Performance Tweaks (47-55)

1. 3d game benchmarks
2. Change your Monitor's refresh rate (CRT monitors only)
3. Fix the refresh rate for 3d games
4. Enable AGP Master 1WS Write/Read
5. Enable AGP Fast Write
6. Set Video Memory Cache Mode
7. Overclocking ATI video cards
8. Overclocking Nvidia Video cards
9. Disable VSYNC

Network and Internet Performance Tweaks (56-66)

1. Increase maximum number of simultaneous connection in Internet Explorer
2. b' devices slow down 802.11g networks
3. Proprietary modes for wireless networking
4. Closer is better for wireless
5. Enhance your Internet connection.
6. Increase DNS cache size
7. Disable DHCP with DSL connections
8. Do not cache failed DNS entries
9. Use CTRL+ENTER to speed up Internet address entering
10. Get a faster network connection to Windows 9x/ME computers
11. Remove the QoS Bandwidth Reserve Setting

WindowsXP User Interface Shortcuts and Hints (67-78)

1. Create shortcut keys
2. Create a custom shortcuts toolbar
3. Using ALT+TAB to switch between applications
4. Add the address taskbar to desktop
5. Disable error reporting
6. Reduce menu delays
7. Restore the Quick launch bar
8. Increase desktop graphic performance
9. Make 'my computer' open faster
10. Remove the need to enter a password to login to XP (be careful!)
11. Sort out spam
12. Keyboard shortcuts using the Win Key (ÿ)

Improving Windows XP boot speed (79-94)

1. Disable floppy drive seek
2. Set primary display adaptor
3. Enable quick POST/memory test
4. Eliminate unwanted programs from boot up
5. Scan your PC for spyware and Adware
6. Disable boot virus detection
7. Change boot sequence.
8. Disable the XP loading screen
9. Eliminate unwanted fonts to increase boot speed
10. Turn off bios disk detection
11. Use the Bootvis utility
12. Use the Intel application accelerator
13. Disable unnecessary services
14. Disable unneeded devices in device manager
15. Disable auto detection for empty IDE slots
16. Reduce wait time after XP boots

Increasing XP shutdown speed (95-99)

1. Increasing shutdown speed by reducing wait times part 1
2. Increasing shutdown speed by reducing wait times part 2
3. Increasing shutdown speed by reducing wait times part 3
4. Disable the Nvidia driver helper service
5. Auto kill tasks on shutdown

So as you see tweaking your pc with the 99 windows xp performance tips is a simple way to increase your computers speed.