re: Speed up general operation of XP Friday, October 9, 2009 at 9:41 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by MartinM (7549 messages posted) Just one more: From time-to-time, delete everything in Windows/prefetch. This will shorten yoru boot time and, if you are low-ish on memory, may increase speed generally. Oh, and and I'll add my opnion that Registry Cleaners are snake oil and the fact that, if your OS is running on NTFS, defragmentation can only make a miniscule difference to performance. Written in response to: re: Speed up general operation of XP (PaulB: Friday, October 9, 2009 at 7:37 am) Responses to this message: re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 8:36 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Speed up general operation of XP (PaulB: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 9:09 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 9:46 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 10:37 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (bob wells: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 11:54 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 12:46 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 8:27 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 9:13 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 6:14 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 7:57 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (ksiemb: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 11:53 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 6:27 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 7:52 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 8:12 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 8:42 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (ksiemb: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 10:18 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 11:15 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Adam Bradley: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 11:53 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 1:11 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:25 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 9:13 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:16 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:03 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Steve: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 6:13 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 6:29 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:30 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Adam Bradley: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 1:03 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (C K: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 1:42 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (MartinM: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 2:21 pm) re: Speed up general operation of XP (PaulB: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 7:37 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (MartinM: Fri, Oct 9, 2009, 9:41 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Alan Masterman: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:36 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (MartinM: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 10:58 am) re: Speed up general operation of XP (Adam Bradley: Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 8:35 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum