3 tricks sure to speed Windows XP
Systems and tricks to speed up Windows XP, there are many in circulation, which usually consists of using special (and more or less good) tools for optimization / defragmentation or enforce any manual changes (and often risky) to Registry .
In this article we will see how we can achieve a significant increase in performance with only 3 simple changes (completely reversible and without adverse effects) to the default settings of Windows XP, without needing to install / use any special tools.
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Elimination of the swap file.
If you have at least 3.5/4GB of RAM you can delete the swap file in Windows. This will drastically reduce the memory operation since it would force the operating system to rely entirely on the RAM to avoid doing paging to disk:- Open the "Control Panel" and select "System"
- Go to tab "Advanced" and in "Performance" click "Settings"
- inside the tab "Advanced" identified the "Virtual Memory" and click on "Change"
- for 'unity' C: "select" No paging file "and apply the change by clicking the button" Set "
- reboot the computer
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Disable Indexing Service files.
The Indexing service speeds up file searches for files in your computer, but to work requires a considerable amount of system resources. Of course the side effect of disabling it will be a decrease of performance in research, you see how this can actually cause you any inconvenience. To see how it behaves and responds to index your computer disabled do the following:- From "My Computer" right click on drive "C:" and select "Properties"
- Delesezionate the checkbox "scans the disk for faster searching of files"
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Elimination of visual effects.
If you think you can live without many special effects (which are among the main culprits in the consumption of system resources) you can disable them by doing the following:- Open the "Control Panel" and select "System"
- Go to tab "Advanced" and in "Performance" click "Settings"
- Within the tab "Visual Effects" select "Adjust for best performance"
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Just a note, Windows XP 32bit does not support more than 3GB of Ram, so the first trick is useful only for 64bit OS.
In this case agrees to the swap file to define a custom size but a little less than twice the system RAM. In this way Windows creates it once and for all and you can use a utility like Page Defrag to defrag and compact it. In this way, performance will improve significantly.