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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
I read that Vista and Windows 7 can be sped up faster by using Flash USB
sticks/drives (have 256 MB to 1 GB sizes). Can this be done with an updated Windows XP Pro. SP3 too? What are you doing where you think your system needs to go faster? If you keep installing and uninstalling programs, moving data around, it would be good to defrag your system. Just gaming. I was only interested to see what else I can do to improve speed on my quad core system. Yes, it's fast enough but it never hurts to have more speed. [grin] If your system has been in place for a few years and you install lots of programs, uninstall programs, it would be an improvement to reinstall Windows from scratch. That is a lot of work but it will speed up your system quite a bit. Every year I reinstall from scratch and only install the programs that I need. I then copy my data back and everything is cool to go. I have it down to a science and can re-do a system in a couple of hours. Yeah, but a pain to reinstall and reconfigure 100+ softwares which I don't have time for. I do back up my HDDs once in a while and back up my datas weekly though. |
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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
"Ant" wrote in message ... I read that Vista and Windows 7 can be sped up faster by using Flash USB sticks/drives (have 256 MB to 1 GB sizes). Can this be done with an updated Windows XP Pro. SP3 too? What are you doing where you think your system needs to go faster? If you keep installing and uninstalling programs, moving data around, it would be good to defrag your system. Just gaming. I was only interested to see what else I can do to improve speed on my quad core system. Yes, it's fast enough but it never hurts to have more speed. [grin] If your system has been in place for a few years and you install lots of programs, uninstall programs, it would be an improvement to reinstall Windows from scratch. That is a lot of work but it will speed up your system quite a bit. Every year I reinstall from scratch and only install the programs that I need. I then copy my data back and everything is cool to go. I have it down to a science and can re-do a system in a couple of hours. Yeah, but a pain to reinstall and reconfigure 100+ softwares which I don't have time for. I do back up my HDDs once in a while and back up my datas weekly though. Since you install lots of programs and have lot installed you should consider a disk imaging program such as Acronis True Image. |
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Speed up my Windows XP Pro. SP3 with Flash USB drives/drives?
On 8/22/2009 10:50 PM PT, msnews.microsoft.com typed:
Yeah, but a pain to reinstall and reconfigure 100+ softwares which I don't have time for. I do back up my HDDs once in a while and back up my datas weekly though. Since you install lots of programs and have lot installed you should consider a disk imaging program such as Acronis True Image. I already do use a disk image program (Symantec/Norton Ghost; not in my installed Windows XP Pro. SP3 -- use a bootable CD/disk). -- "Look not to the windmill's turning while the ant still burrows." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Nuke ANT from e-mail address: NT ( ) or Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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