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HOW TO INCREASE WINDOWS XP PERFORMANCE

1. Auto-reboot modification If you would rather not use regedit, you can right click on my computer and select properties. Click on settings button for startup and recovery on the advanced tab. The box for automatically restart will enable/disable auto reboot after a power failure. 2. Clean your prefetch to improve performance This is an unique technique for WinXP. We know that it is necessary to wash registry and TEMP files for Win9X/ME/2000 periodly. Prefetch is a new and very useful technique in Windows XP. However, after using XP some time, the prefetch directory can get full of junk and obsolete links in the Prefetch catalog, which can slow down your computer notablely. My suggestion is: open C(system drive):/windows/prefetch, delete those junk and obsolete files,reboot. It is recommended that you do this every month. 3. Correcting System Hang at Startup If your system hangs about 2 or 3 minutes at startup, where you can't access the Start button or the Taskbar, it may be due to one specific service (Background Intelligent Transfer) running in the background. Microsoft put out a patch for this but it didn't work for me. Here's what you do: i. Click on Start/Run, type 'msconfig', then click 'OK'. ii. Go to the 'Services' tab, find the 'Background Intelligent Transfer' service, disable it, apply the changes & reboot. 4. Disable unnecessary programs Installing many programs on you computer can often clutter your registry with unnecessary programs running when your computer starts up. This will slow down your machine and take up memory. Start Regedit. If you are unfamiliar with regedit please refer to our FAQ on how to get started. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Once there, locate any entry's on the right. You can identify the program by the path to the executable. Find programs that you can live without starting up from the list. Right click on them and select Delete You may also want to navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Runonce and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Delete unnecessary programs. Reboot your computer. Alternative method: Click on the start button and select run. In the text box type msconfig and click ok. Once the window has loaded, click on the startup tab and uncheck programs you do not want to start up anymore. To be continue...,azuan™

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