Tweaks to make XP Faster
Hibernate
Turn it off. It's in the "Power Options" setting in the control panel, third Tab. It'll save disc space too.
Turn off Indexing for all your Drives
It's really annoying. Go to your "My Computer" and right-click on each of your hard drives, then select "Properties". At the bottom of the windows that pops up, uncheck the "Index this Drive..." option.
While you're there, make sure none of the drives have "Compress this Drive to save Disc Space" option turned on. That slows down your computer hideously.
Control Programs that Start at Startup
Download this tool, and then check your Control Panel for an item named "Startup". Remove everything you don't need.
Disable Unnecessary Services
Go to the Run box in your Start Menu, and type "services.msc" and press OK. (Dont enter the quotes, just the text). Disable the following services:
- Alerter
- Clipbook
- Computer Browser
- Fast User Switching
- Human Interface Access Devices
- Indexing Service (Slows the hard drive down)
- Messenger
- Net Logon (Do not disable this if you are Networked on a Domain)
- Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing
- Remote Desktop Help Session Manager
- Remote Procedure Call Locator
- Remote Registry
- Routing Remote Access
- Server
- SSDP Discovery Service
- TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
- Telnet
- Universal Plug and Play Device Host
- Upload Manager
- Windows Time
- Wireless Zero Configuration (Do not Disable this if you connect to the internet Wirelessly)
- Workstation
Don't Use Internet Explorer
Download Firefox Browser. It's much faster, both at processing webpages, and starting up. It performs the same functions (allowing you to view webpages), it's just faster and more secure.
If you have to use Internet Explorer...
Perhaps you're at work or something. Get Internet Explorer to clear it's Temp files every time you shut it down - it'll keep it speedy.
- Launch Internet Explorer.
- Select the Tools from the menu bar.
- Then select Internet Options... from the drop down menu.
- Once the internet options has loaded click on the advanced tab.
- Under security find where it says Empty Temporary internet files folder when browser is closed and check it.
- Click OK
Speed Up your Network Viewing
When you connect to another computer with Windows XP, it checks for any Scheduled tasks on that computer, which is useless. So, disable this. In your run box, type "regedit.exe", and press OK. Then, navigate to this key (it'll look kind of like a folder):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace
Then, delete the key {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}, and restart your computer. Windows will no longer browse slowly!
