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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 z00ker (313 Posts) at 10/9/2002 11:31:48 AM |
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>>To make folders with thumbnail images start up faster, go to control panel and
>>then folder options. Click on the view tab and make sure "Do not cache thumbnails" >>is not checked. Double negatives suck. :-) In any case, I have experienced poor performance with caching enabled - especially in folders with a large number of images (1000+). With caching enabled it seems the 'puter never stops churning. I assume it's generating and caching thumbnails and/or validating the cached images against those on the drive. Jeff |
| #2 By Cthulhu (709 Posts) at 10/9/2002 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. |
| #3 By monsieurevil (1 Posts) at 10/9/2002 1:22:48 PM |
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Interesting writeup. We offer a similar guide to this at our game site, but a bit more exhaustive, and much more performance-centric. Feel free to check it out.
http://www.readyroom.org/perfgde_1.html This post was edited by monsieurevil on Wednesday, October 09, 2002 at 13:23. |
| #4 By sphbecker (1135 Posts) at 10/9/2002 2:52:46 PM |
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A lot of the tweaks I have seen have to do with setting options on the XP "Welcome" screen. I think we will see this type of configuration available through the GUI on future versions of Windows.
I wish that Windows was able to do some auto-tuning. IE, if a non-essential task seems to add a few seconds on your computer (such as some of the junk that goes on over network connection or some of the fancy graphics effects) Windows should automatically disable it. A list in the control panel would show what options have been disabled automatically and offer the user a way to reverse that. Windows already does this to a limited degree for graphics effects, but I would like to see it move to other aspects of the system. Auto-tuning its self needs to be an option, for those of use who don’t like the computer doing things behind our backs, but I really think such a feature would really improve performance on low end systems. |
| #5 By RedHook (878 Posts) at 10/9/2002 8:33:26 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 |
| #6 By ComputerExpert (302 Posts) at 10/9/2002 8:52:02 PM |
| The NIC tweak is working for me #2 so unless you didn't try it yourself.. |
| #7 By sodablue (5245 Posts) at 10/10/2002 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. |
| #8 By Phaedrus (2662 Posts) at 7/1/2004 11:59:43 AM |
| XP really is pretty easy to tweek in just a few steps if you know what your doing. |
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