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How to Tweak Windows XP for Optimal Performance |
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Written by freakydot
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Monday, 24 January 2011 03:59 |
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The purpose of this guide is to tweak Windows XP for optimal performance, get rid of all the useless extras that Windows XP comes with, and to decrease the startup time of Windows XP. | | Pentium II 350MHz
128MB RAM
2GB Maxtor Hard Drive
8x Mitsumi CD-ROM
100MB NIC | This system is a peice of crap by today’s standards, but after I tweak the install of Window XP on this system it will run faster, use less RAM, and boot up times will be lowered. For comparison at the end of this guide I recorded the boot up times of Windows XP right after a default install. Boot up (time to get to logon screen) = 59 Seconds
RAM used at startup = 60 MB
Processes = 15
Time to load after logging in = 35 Seconds 1A. Disabling Windows Themes, transition effects, and smoothing fonts One thing you’ll notice if your upgrading from an older version of Windows is that the start menu and all the windows now have this Bluish theme. Since this is a tweaking guide we’re going to get rid of this bluish theme to save RAM. First thing you’ll want to do is right click anywhere on the desktop. It’ll come up with a menu, click on properties and a window will come up called display properties. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 24 January 2011 04:14 |
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