The Unknown P
December 6th 03, 03:35 PM
As you can see by the other two posts there are literally
dozens of ways to improve your startup speeds and system
maintenance is the key. Defrag(and keep below 4%) run
chkdsk on occassion. Use the disk cleanup utility and
check all boxs accept compress old files. Get a good
registry cleaner like JV16 Power Tools. Get a good
spyware\adware removal tool like SpyBot Search and
Destroy. Do not store programs or files on the desktop
only the shortcuts should be there.Remove unecessary
utilities in the add\remove programs add\remove windows
components list.You don't need both Internet Explorer and
MSN Explorer for instance. Make sure that the boot
optimizer has been activated in your registry.
Go>start\run and type in regedit and hit ok. Now click the
+ signs in the following order.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Defrg\BootOp timizeFun
ction. Now make sure "enable" on the right side is set to
Y if it isn't then right click on enable and click modify
and type in Y and then click your way out. If it has then
XP will optimize for boot performance about every 3 days
or so. If you wish to do this now then BootVis has
an "Optimize" tool that can help you shave a few seconds
off your boot times. I have two users on this machine and
even going through a log on screen and typing in a
password my system takes about 50secs to get to the
desktop. Keep smiling.
dozens of ways to improve your startup speeds and system
maintenance is the key. Defrag(and keep below 4%) run
chkdsk on occassion. Use the disk cleanup utility and
check all boxs accept compress old files. Get a good
registry cleaner like JV16 Power Tools. Get a good
spyware\adware removal tool like SpyBot Search and
Destroy. Do not store programs or files on the desktop
only the shortcuts should be there.Remove unecessary
utilities in the add\remove programs add\remove windows
components list.You don't need both Internet Explorer and
MSN Explorer for instance. Make sure that the boot
optimizer has been activated in your registry.
Go>start\run and type in regedit and hit ok. Now click the
+ signs in the following order.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Defrg\BootOp timizeFun
ction. Now make sure "enable" on the right side is set to
Y if it isn't then right click on enable and click modify
and type in Y and then click your way out. If it has then
XP will optimize for boot performance about every 3 days
or so. If you wish to do this now then BootVis has
an "Optimize" tool that can help you shave a few seconds
off your boot times. I have two users on this machine and
even going through a log on screen and typing in a
password my system takes about 50secs to get to the
desktop. Keep smiling.