re: XP O/S -Slow
Wednesday, February 19, 2003 at 12:08 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ron Spackman
(3 messages posted)
Hi There Koa,
This is the first time I have used this Discussion Forum. I can not believe that
someone would go to so much trouble to reply to my call for help. Thank you very
much for the information. It's people like you who make the net so exciting.
Thank you.
regards
Ron
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at 12:14 am, Koa wrote:
>Aloha,
>
>You can find a lot of XP Tweaks here that will improve your System and Applications
>speed.
>However try and see if your settings in your system is set to run your applications
>first.
>
>Go to:Control Panel/System/Advanced/Performance/click on Settings.
>Now you can choose you performance settings.
>One of the tweaks I learned is alot of the stuff here I can do without. All I have
>checked is a few boxes. these are some of the unchecked ones:
>Fade or slide menus into view
>Fade or slide ToolTips into view
>Fade out menu items after clicking
>Show Shadows under menus
>Slide open combo boxes
>Slide taskbar buttons
>Use a background image for each folder type
>Use common tasks in folders
>You can expermint from here.
>Another Tweak is
>When using the start menu the you will notice a delay between different tiers of
>the menu hierarchy. For the fastest computer experience possible I recommend changing
>this value to zero. This will allow the different tiers to appear instantly.
>
>Start Regedit. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
>Select MenuShowDelay from the list on the right.
>Righ tclick on it and select Modify.
>Change the value to 0.
>Reboot your computer.
>This tweak can increase the amount of RAM significantly used on your computer. What
>this tweak actually does is it uses your hard-drive disk-space to emulate RAM. This
>is called caching, or in Microsoft terms - The Virtual Paging File Size.
>
>1.) Go into Control Panel and into Performance and Maintenance
>2.) Get into System
>3.) Click the Advanced Tab
>4.) In the Performance Frame, click on Settings
>5.) Once in Settings click on the Advanced Tab
>6.) Now under Virutal Memory click on Change
>7.) Here you can set your RAM value. The recommended increase you should make should
>be achieved by multiplying your RAM by 1.5. This is already done if you have a System
>Managed file size. I like to increase it by 1/5 of my actual hard-drive space. This
>will drastically increase performance, because the system will now have a pool of
>cache to retrieve memory from.
>
>Indexing services is a small program that hogs HUGE amounts of RAM and can often
>make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexing and updates
>lists of the files on your system, so you can search for them quickly, but it's
completley
>unnessesary.
>
>To disable it, go to the Control Panel and click Add/Remove Programs. Click the
>Add/Remove Window Components. Simply unclick the Indexing services and click next.
>
>You can go to this site for more Tweaks
>http://www.tweakxp.com
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- re: XP O/S -Slow (Kane: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at 12:14 am)
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