Windows XP Tips
"Knowledge is power"
Speed up your PC and get its full potential
DON'T spend money buying software that claims to speed up or optimize your PC.
It can all be done manually at no cost to you!
This Windows XP Tips eBook really is great for novice windows owners and experts alike.
Save hundreds in call out charges when you know what to do yourself!
Here is a Table of Contents for the eBook you're getting.
Table of ContentsPreparing Your System (1-8) Graphics Performance Tweaks (47-55)
- Use 'whole system' performance benchmarks
- Tweak insurance part 1: backing up and editing the registry
- Tweak Insurance part 2: Creating a system restore point
- Saving your hard drive space from the system restore utility
- Tweak insurance part 3: Restoring BIOS defaults
- Tweak insurance part 4: Use hardware profiles to experiment with system settings.
- Editing BIOS settings
- Editing registry settings without restarting
BIOS tweaks and Insight (9-13)
- Change memory Latency times
- Set the correct AGP mode
- Update your bios
- Disable unneeded ports
- Disable built-in features on your motherboard
Overclocking your processor and memory (14-16)
- Overclocking the memory/front side bus
- Changing the CPU multiplier
- Modify Processor and memory voltage
WindowsXP Software and Registry Performance Tweaks (17-46)
- Stop the 'last access update' stamp
- Disable the 8.3 naming convention
- Keep Windows operating data in main memory
- Obtain the newest drivers for your hardware
- Disable performance counters
- Move the page file from system drive
- Create a 'permanent' page file
- Optimize your page file size
- Defrag page file with PageDefrag utility
- Set priority for important programs
- Check your hard drives with scandisk
- Force XP to unload DLL files after closing a program
- Thaw out your desktop
- Speed up mouse movement, part 1
- Speed up mouse movement, part 2
- Create a RAID configuration
- Disable the themes service
- Remove the desktop picture
- Change to the NTFS file system
- Perform a manual Application and Boot file Defrag
- Disable the hibernation feature
- Disable automatic sensing on network cards
- Use the prefetch switch to load applications faster
- Verify DMA mode is set for all drives
- Do a windows repair install
- Stop hard disks spinning down
- Reduce recycling bin reserved space
- Enable write caching on hard disks
- Defragment your hard disk(s)
- Turn off the indexing service
- 3d game benchmarks
- Change your Monitor's refresh rate (CRT monitors only)
- Fix the refresh rate for 3d games
- Enable AGP Master 1WS Write/Read
- Enable AGP Fast Write
- Set Video Memory Cache Mode
- Overclocking ATI video cards
- Overclocking Nvidia Video cards
- Disable VSYNC
Network and Internet Performance Tweaks (56-66)
- Increase maximum number of simultaneous connection in Internet Explorer
- b' devices slow down 802.11g networks
- Proprietary modes for wireless networking
- Closer is better for wireless
- Enhance your Internet connection.
- Increase DNS cache size
- Disable DHCP with DSL connections
- Do not cache failed DNS entries
- Use CTRL+ENTER to speed up Internet address entering
- Get a faster network connection to Windows 9x/ME computers
- Remove the QoS Bandwidth Reserve Setting
WindowsXP User Interface Shortcuts and Hints (67-78)
- Create shortcut keys
- Create a custom shortcuts toolbar
- Using ALT+TAB to switch between applications
- Add the address taskbar to desktop
- Disable error reporting
- Reduce menu delays
- Restore the Quick launch bar
- Increase desktop graphic performance
- Make 'my computer' open faster
- Remove the need to enter a password to login to XP (be careful!)
- Sort out spam
- Keyboard shortcuts using the Win Key (ÿ)
Improving Windows XP boot speed (79-94)
- Disable floppy drive seek
- Set primary display adaptor
- Enable quick POST/memory test
- Eliminate unwanted programs from boot up
- Scan your PC for spyware and Adware
- Disable boot virus detection
- Change boot sequence.
- Disable the XP loading screen
- Eliminate unwanted fonts to increase boot speed
- Turn off bios disk detection
- Use the Bootvis utility
- Use the Intel application accelerator
- Disable unnecessary services
- Disable unneeded devices in device manager
- Disable auto detection for empty IDE slots
- Reduce wait time after XP boots
Increasing XP shutdown speed (95-99)
- Increasing shutdown speed by reducing wait times part 1
- Increasing shutdown speed by reducing wait times part 2
- Increasing shutdown speed by reducing wait times part 3
- Disable the Nvidia driver helper service
- Auto kill tasks on shutdown
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