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- Tofm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+113I sped up my WinXP the last ten times something like this was posted. I dont think it can go any faster....
- ggarenn, on 10/12/2007, -11/+113the article is annoying to read because of these sentences: (there are a lot of suckass sentences, but here are three)
"The service "claims" to makes indexes of different files on computer..."
"In face, according to my opinion Microsoft operating systems have a tendency to slow computer sown when you have a lop of programs installed."
my favorite:
"This option will display you list of third party services. Uncheck the services that are not undesirable."
uncheck the services that are not undesirable? so that makes them desirable right? so that means you need to uncheck everything that looks desirable? so all the startup programs you want to keep, you don't get to?
why are we digging up an article with so many goddamn errors? it's ***** annoying to read! not only that, but it can also be confusing for some. but whatever. - coollettuce, on 10/12/2007, -7/+70Step Two: STFU!
- john2kx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+61Step 8 is incredible! My machine feels literally twice as fast!
- Jo9100, on 10/12/2007, -10/+66they should have sped up the server too...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+47It's cold out there
- jubilee123, on 10/12/2007, -2/+425. make her open the box
- cam503, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42Because a lot of people may not understand which start-up programs they may be disabling, I would recommend doing it this way:
1. Go to start > Run...
2. Type in "regedit" without the quotes and hit Enter.
3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory ManagementPrefetchParameters
4. Under this key you should see a value named: EnablePrefetcher
It has 4 possible values:
0 - Disabled : The prefetch system is turned off.
1 - Application : The prefetch only caches applications.
2 - Boot : The prefetch only caches boot system files.
3 - All : The prefetch caches boot, and application files.
Although it is usually not a good idea to delete your prefetch folder entirely, it will noticeably speed up your computer's performance if you set it to '2', meaning it only loads necessary system files at start up. - coollettuce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34Disabling auto search for network and printer files really sped up my folder browsing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34outside?
- Terc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30"Selecting default and no wallpaper as background also gives better performance than that of heavy wallpapers."
Yeah, gotta watch out for those "heavy wallpapers"
This article is full of *****. - SNIa, on 10/12/2007, -5/+32Why not take a break and go outside.
- MattLee09, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28Lets be honest, why use this site when Black Viper is so much more comprehensive?
I hate to accuse myself of being a fanboy, but I love this guy and the work he put into making each OS as fast as possible.
http://www.blackviper.com/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+35@kaylac
3. ...
4. PROFIT - Nefi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+253. spend hours on ubuntu forums figuring out how to do what after.
- epimer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27FTA: "XP has a very cool looking user interface..."
Hahahahahahahahahahaha! - crazlunatic, on 10/12/2007, -12/+28pretty obvious info
- chewitt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Yeah, why read free information on Digg when we could just drive to barnes and nobles and buy it instead?
I think you may have missed the point of the Internets - ReRunx5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Make Your Windows Fast As Never Before! http://www.activehowto.com/how-to/4/11/414.htm
Boot up Windows before you even log in http://www.brainfuel.tv/boot-up-windows-before-you-even-log-in/
Guide to Useless Services (Windows XP SP2) http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/article.jsp?article_id=70112&cat_id=584
Speed up your internet http://lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=tools
Shutdown Windows XP faster http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/07/why-windows-takes-so-long-to-shut-down.html - mattmcm, on 10/12/2007, -14/+28Good article. I do most of these things on a fresh install before installing any programs.
- selrahc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+157 ate 8 instead of 9 apparently.
- gr0ss, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14He's a witty one.
- fani, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13shut the ***** up.
- geekitechture, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10If rebooting takes 10-20 minutes then there's more wrong with your computer than this article can fix.
- Systembomber, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12@korn91313,
...The joke died after the first reply.... - OmegaNine, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17@ggarenn
There may be grammatical errors, but this article is full of useful information. I can skim over the bad sentences.
As you get deeper in the software development game, you will learn that not all (most don't) developers (and bloggers I assume) speak English as their first language. - alexforcefive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I dunno, "Uncheck the services that are not undesirable" was pretty new to me.=/
- anastrophe, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14you linux fanboys are as bad as a jehovah's witness at 7am on sunday. give it a ***** rest.
(from a sysadmin who's been using unix since 1986, and runs unix servers for a living. i run XP on my home desktop. so, in other words, and to summarize, eat me.) - idiotwithastick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Under setting 3, only boot files are loaded under startup... the prefetch info for applications only tells Windows how to start up the applications more quickly. The data for application is loaded at application start, not at Windows startup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefetcher - dbalaski, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@ kwipper
No -- The idea is to utilize only what you need to get the job you want done.
Not everyone has the luxury of being able to buy new hardware,
nor is that an advisable approach to the speed problem..
If your car is accelerating fast enough, do you go out and buy a new engine or transmission ?? Or a new car ???
I hope not! You try some basic tune-ups.
I give seminars on Oracle Database performance -- and one of my favorite quotes to use is applicable here
We'll just have to modify it to appropriately fit the situation:
"Sometimes you can throw hardware at a [speed] problem,
but any improperly tuned database [or server or workstation] will bring response time to infinity, not matter what the hardware.
I personally think the recommendations of the article are a decent starting point for people to try if they find a clean install is working slow (I've used a few of the recommendations myself on a few XP workstations) -- I personally prefer Linux as my OS -- but that is a discussion for another time. - Empyrean, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Welcome to digg, now STFU.
- Tikkimann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Speed up windows XP in minutes? uuuuuuun-likely. I'm the writer's target audience, and I'd have to reboot my computer after most of these, which is 10-20 minutes, by itself.
- spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Posts like this are why I never want to own a mac. I don't want to be associated with idiots like you.
- xtreme777, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13It's a D*** in a box!!
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I'm pretty sure SP2 does this by default.
- SEMW, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7To settle the argument over whether IE or Firefox is faster; I Googled a bit, and the answer is... Well, neither of them, actually; most benchmarks seem to favour Opera as the fastest at most things.
- chrispknight, on 10/12/2007, -9/+14Usually messing around with your registry file is not the best idea -- especially under the idea that tweaking one tiny little setting could actually dramatically change the way your computer works. Computer developers worked for years figuring this stuff out -- if one number could change everything, then everyone would be doing it.
From Wikipedia:
Incorrect tweaking of the prefetcher
Many all-in-one tweaking and other windows tweaking applications may incorrectly set the prefetcher value, often setting it to 2 instead of the recommended value of 3. By doing so, boot times are not reduced and applications will load more slowly. Users are advised to check this value is still set to 3 after using any windows tweaking software. More information available by clicking here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefetcher - kahrn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Why is it that every "Speed up XP!" guide says to enable DMA? If your drive supports DMA, then Windows should already have enabled it. DMA has been enabled for every install I have ever done.
- stmiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Answer: Turn off all the flashy stuff that makes it different from XP. Now it's faster, and just like XP! What has MS been doing for 5 years?
- Evolve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Pfft, this is just a blatant copy and paste of other articles out there.
No new information here, and the submitter of the article is clearly just spamming Digg with this one website.
Marked as Spam, if you want to get detailed information and actual knowledge then Google "windows tweaks". - th3heretic, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9No, no it shouldn't Tyson.
- mancat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What the ***** are you talking about?
What popular software is being developed for OS X besides what Apple, Adobe or Microsoft puts out?
???
Don't even bother answering that question in regards to Linux. - loveddevol, on 10/12/2007, -3/+77-9?
wtf happend to step 8? - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If your IDE has like 5 errors in its lifetime, PIO is the mode it runs in for the rest of its life unless manually changed...
I know... its stupid.
Good thing SATA uses DMA all the time! - fullphaser, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4hey seeing as you're a dumbass, would you mind sending that money for more ram, as if that will alleviate the problem, my way?
- SEMW, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I thought the services part of the article was pretty good (telling you to only disable non-MS services) -- for people who don't know *exactly* what they're doing, disabling random Microsoft services can have unexpected consequences. You'd be surprised how many services have more low-level uses than their primary-usage oversimplified descriptions in the services manager.
The part of the article I disagree with is the part on virtual memory. Setting it to a constant size is fine if you never use more than that size; but if you do use more, for whatever reason (photo/video-editing for one takes up more memory than you'd think), think about what takes more time -- the microsecond it takes Windows to automatically make the pagefile larger, or the 5 minutes it takes you to notice the "out of virtual memory" notification, curse, save everything, set it to a larger size, and reboot?
If you really feel you're getting a noticable performance hit through it changing size too much in normal use, just set a slightly larger *initial* size -- giving it an arbitary maximum size is just something you'll regret when you need more than that limit (which will probably be when you have loads of stuff open and are doing something complicated -- i.e. just when you *don't* want to quit everything and reboot). It's probably better to just leave it as a system-managed size, though. - geekitechture, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Tarnum
AusLogics Disk Defrag is quicker, better, and it's free. - anastrophe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4beercosoftware, you sir or madam, are an asshat, and should join the original poster at 7am ringing people's ***** doorbells at 7am to share the True Word and Revealed Gospel of Linux.
operating systems i've used personally and professionally:
SunOS 4.1.4
Solaris 2.5
Solaris 2.5.1
Solaris 7 (2.7)
Solaris 9 (2.9)
Solaris 10/OpenSolaris (2.10, and it kicks *every* version of linux i've ever used to the curb)
Cobalt RaQ linux
mandrake
slackware
suse
BSD/OS
FreeBSD
OpenBSD
NetBSD
Redhat
Fedora
CentOS
puppylinux
knoppix
ubuntu
damn small linux
so maybe you should try taking the red pill, rather than the blue pill. - praxis22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm with cacoe, black viper FTW, (didn't realise his pages were back up, spiffy!)
The msconfig stuff is a bit crap, but for that and everything else there is "Tuneup Utilites 2006"
Personally my page file is the same size as my memory and on a different physical drive to my OS. Though at work where I have multiple programs open, and less memory, I use the "commit change" tweak. YMMV - SEMW, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Tarnum:
The Windows XP defragger ALREADY reorders system, startup, & commonly used files to be near the start of the disk. That's part of the function of the Prefetch folder -- to update "layout.ini" with which files & programs are most commonly loaded. Layout.ini is then used by the defragger to reorder commonly used & startup files to be near the beginning of the disk. -
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