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Services You Can Disable

There are absolutely a few casework you can attenuate from starting automatically.

This would be to acceleration up your cossack time and chargeless resources.

They are alone suggestions so I advancement you apprehend the description of anniversary one back you run Services

and that you about-face them off one at a time.

Some possibilities are:

Alerter

Application Management

Clipbook

Fast UserSwitching

Human Interface Devices

Indexing Service

Messenger

Net Logon

NetMeeting

QOS RSVP

Remote Desktop Help Session Manager

Remote Registry

Routing & Remote Access

SSDP Discovery Service

Universal Plug and Play Device Host

Web Client

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Cleaning the Prefetch Directory

Windows XP has a new affection alleged Prefetch. This keeps a adjustment to afresh acclimated programs.

However it can ample up with old and anachronistic programs.

To apple-pie this periodically go to:

Star / Run / Prefetch

Press Ctrl-A to highlight all the shorcuts

Delete them

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Clearing the Folio Book on Shutdown

Click on the Start button

Go to the Control Panel

Administrative Tools

Local Security Policy

Local Policies

Click on Security Options

Right duke card - appropriate bang on "Shutdown: Bright Virtual Anamnesis Pagefile"

Select "Enable"

Reboot

For regedit users.....

If you appetite to bright the folio book on anniversary shutdown:

Start Regedit

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory ManagementClearPageFileAtShutdown

Set the bulk to 1

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No GUI Boot

If you don't charge to see the XP cossack logo,

Run MSCONFIG

Click on the BOOT.INI tab

Check the box for /NOGUIBOOT

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Decreasing Cossack Time

Microsoft has fabricated accessible a affairs to assay and abatement the time it takes to cossack to Windows XP

The affairs is alleged BootVis

Uncompress the file.

Run BOOTVIS.EXE

For a starting point, run Trace / Next Cossack + Driver Delays

This will reboot your computer and accommodate a benchmark

After the reboot, BootVis will booty a minute or two to appearance graphs of your arrangement startup.

Note how abundant time it takes for your arrangement to bulk (click on the red vertical line)

Then run Trace / Optimize System

Re-Run the Next Cossack + Drive Delays

Note how abundant the time has decreased

Mine went from about 33 to 25 seconds.

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Increasing Graphics Performance

By default, Windows XP turns on a lot of shadows, fades, slides etc to card items.

Most artlessly apathetic bottomward their display.

To about-face these off selectively:

Right bang on the My Computer icon

Select Properties

Click on the Advanced tab

Under Performance, bang on the Settings button

To about-face them all of, baddest Adjust for best performance

My alternative is to leave them all off except for Appearance caliginosity beneath abrasion arrow and Appearance window capacity while dragging

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Increasing Arrangement Performance

If you accept 512 megs or added of memory, you can access arrangement performance

by accepting the bulk arrangement kept in memory.

Start Regedit

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory ManagementDisablePagingExecutive

Set the bulk to be 1

Reboot the computer

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Increasing Book Arrangement Caching

To access the bulk of anamnesis Windows will bound for I/O operations:

Start Regedit

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory Management

Edit the key IoPageLockLimit

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