Here's a list to go by; it came from a Wiz on a forum :)

The things that make the computer slow are the many unecessary items that automatically 
startup when Windows starts. 

Right-click on the icons in the tray area, open each, go through the options to turn 
off the "tray" or "run at startup" feature. 

For the others, go to Start>Run, type msconfig. Leave systray, scan registry, Load 
Power Profile, *StateMgr, your virus scanner and firewall if you have one. 

Go to Start>Run, type sysedit. Look over the autoexec.bat for unneccessary lines, 
click the win.ini and check for programs loading here: 
[windows] 
load= 
run= 

Open Explorer and navigate to c:\windows\temp and delete all files here. Empty the 
Recycle Bin. 

Open Internet Explorer, go to Tools>InternetOptions, click the Delete Files and Clear 
History buttons. Click the Settings button, then set a reasonable size for the temporary 
internet files cache. I'd suggest 40MB for a 56K connection, as little as 10MB for 
a cable or DSL connection. 
Right-click on the desktop, make sure Active Desktop is turned off, then click properties 
and click the Effects tab. turn off Animate windows, menus, and lists. 

Close all tray applications and hit Alt_Ctl_Del and end task on all items except 
for explorer and systray, disable your screensaver, then run scandisk, then defrag. 

If you're using Microsoft Office, look up this Knowledge Base article to kill the 
Find Fast Indexer. 

How to Disable the Find Fast Indexer 

Finally, don't use those so-called RAM boosters 

reghakr

P.S. You might also check out one of those performance sites, such as Speedguide.net 
and Pureperformance.com. Good tips!



	
	
	







On Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 10:02 pm, Mike wrote:
>About a week ago I started having a similar problem with low resources.  I have 
narrowed 
>the problem down to only happening when I use MS Word 2000.  I can not open any 
Word 
>files, any size.  Unistalled and reinstalled MS Office 2000 suite and no change. 
> Warm and cold boot doesn't help.  Resource meter says System 72% free, User 72% 
>free, and GDI 88% free.  I have 512MB RAM running on a Dell 700Mhz.  System monitor 
>does not give me any indications of a problem either.  Anyone know of a solution?
>
>

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