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ActiveWin: How to Optimise Windows XP Home and Pro | |
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| Time: 05:25 EST/10:25 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Alex Harris | ||
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With most people now moving over to Windows XP Home or Pro on new PC's and even some older PC's everyone will be trying to get the most out of Windows speed wise. With a few simple tweaks you can get Windows XP running very sweetly without compromising on the new look that it has to offer. Also included in this is some tips and tricks for any problems you might get when things go wrong. A lot of these tweaks with with both Home and Pro, but if there is a tweak especially for one version it will be stated. |
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| #1 By 6859 (204.71.100.216) at Wednesday, October 09, 2002 12:22:13 PM |
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The Network Interface Card Memory Tweak has a high probability of doing nothing as that setting, IIRC, only existed in Windows 95. Independent verification is almost impossible. Another reason to not do this is that in Windows XP it is normal for IRQs to be shared, by reserving memory for an IRQ you could be reserving loads more memory than you think, which could render your system inoperable. Plus the System.ini file is used for 16-bit support only so I really doubt how helpful this would be under normal use. This post was edited by Cthulhu on Wednesday, October 09, 2002 at 12:56. |
| #2 By 7390 (63.211.44.114) at Wednesday, October 09, 2002 08:33:26 PM |
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I am agree with #4, but I would take it further! You should be able to attached "performance profiles" to users. So for example I would have the option to select a "gamer" profile which would optimize network traffic etc etc. I am thinking of profiles like developer, home user, business user, games, server.....
these go beyond just selecting home, pro or server version of Windows |
| #3 By 135 (208.50.201.48) at Thursday, October 10, 2002 12:43:46 AM |
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Install Service Pack 1. It's dramatically sped up every computer I've applied it to thus far.
However, I can't seem to prove this using any benchmarks(tried Winstone 2002), because I think the impact is felt more with the Explorer interface. |
