18 tips to make your XP system run faster

It is recommended that you do not have a computer base. After the manual operation, your computer operation level can be improved.

1. shorten the waiting time

Open the Registry Editor, find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControl, and set WaitToKillServiceTimeout to 1000 or smaller (original value: 20000 ).

Find the HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop key and change WaitToKillAppTimeout in the right window to 1000 (the original value is 20000). That is, when the program is closed, it only takes one second. Change the value of HungAppTimeout to 200 (original value: 5000), indicating that the program will wait 0.5 seconds for an error.

2. Let the system automatically shut down the program for stopping the response

Open the Registry HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop key and set AutoEndTasks to 1 (original value: 0 ).

3. Speed up menu display

Open the Registry Editor, find HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop, and change the MenuShowDelay item to: 0. Your menu will be unexpectedly fast.

4. Accelerated shared viewing

Open Registry Editor and delete {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} under hkey_local_machinesoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionpolicerremotecomputernamespace

5. Speed up window display:

Open the Registry Editor, find the HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktopWindowMetrics sub-key branch, and find the MinAniMate key value in the window on the right. Its type is REG_SZ. The default value is 1, indicates the animation displayed in the window. If you change it to 0, the animation cannot be displayed. Then, select the "logout" command from the Start menu to activate the modification.

6. disable unnecessary services:

If you only use Windows XP on a single machine, many service components are not required at all. Additional service programs greatly slow down the system speed and can completely disable these redundant service components.

Next we will look at how to turn off unnecessary services. Click Start> set> Control Panel ". Double-click "Administrative Tools"> "services". The service list is displayed. Some services are started, while others are not. Right-click the service you want to configure and click "properties ". On the "General" tab, select "automatic", "Manual", or "Disable". "automatic" indicates that Windows XP automatically starts the service each time the system starts; "Manual" means that Windows XP does not automatically start the service, but manually starts the service when you need it. "disabled" means that the service cannot be started. In actual configuration, you can select "Manual" or "Disable" to disable the service. We recommend that you use manual functions so that you can start services that are temporarily needed at any time. Some services are required for Windows XP and cannot be closed. Otherwise, the system will crash. For the functions of various services, you can double-click the service or hover your mouse over the service name to view the functions. Next, let's take a look at the descriptions of these services, and finally see which services can be turned off (see the table below ). For general users who use Windows XP on a single machine, you can disable the services in the table. If you have special requirements, you can configure Windows XP services by referring to the instructions in the table to achieve the optimal state.

7. Delete shared documents:

By default, open my computer in Windows XP and you will see some folders above the hard disk icon. These are "Shared Folders". Here, each folder is used to share files. These folders are especially annoying and unnecessary. We can make these folders disappear in my computer:

Open the Registry Editor and delete {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee} in the secret. Next time I open my computer, these annoying folders will no longer exist.

8. Accelerate Windows XP startup:

(1) Windows XP comes with a service named Prefetcher, which manages the program initialization during Windows Startup (that is, the blue bars that are rolled during startup ), the specified program can be quickly loaded in future use. Prefetcher is enabled by default, but its performance can be further improved. Open the Registry Editor and find:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSessionManagerMemoryManagementPrefetchParameters. One of the key values is EnablePrefetcher. In most cases, the value is 3. The recommended value is 5-on my machine, the best working status is set to 5. You can try different values until you find the value that best suits your machine. You can also disable Prefetcher by setting the value to 0. However, unless it is for testing purposes, the average person is not stupid enough to set it to 0.

　　

(2) "My Computer"-> "properties"-> "advanced"-> "Start and fault Repair", click "Error Report ", select "Disable Error Reporting" and "notify me when a serious error occurs ".

(3) remove the "Write events to system logs", "Send management alarms", "auto restart" option, and set "Write debugging information" to "NONE ".

(4) Click "edit". In the notepad file displayed:

[Operating Systems]

Timeout = 30 // change the default time to 30 seconds to 0 seconds

Multi (0) disk (0) rdisk (0) partition (1) WINDOWS = "Microsoft Windows XP Professional"/fastdetect // change the default fastdetect to nodetect

Registry Modification Method: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001Control", and the SystemStartOptions key value is changed to NODETECT.

9. The task is automatically ended when the computer is disabled:

When shutdown, an annoying dialog box is displayed to remind you whether a program is still running and whether to stop the task. In fact, you can make a few modifications to enable Windows to automatically end these programs that are still running. Open the HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop directory in the Registry and change the AugoEndTasks key value to 1.

Note: The AutoEndTasks key value may not be found. If so, create a string value and change it to this name. Set the value to 1.

10. Optimize program running:

The program running has their own priorities. All Programs occupy processor resources, and the processor processing tasks have their own priorities. Generally, there are 31 priority levels in the computer, the kernel of the system occupies some of the highest levels, so as to ensure system stability, while general applications are generally compared to the following levels. There is also a priority among common applications. They were originally equal to everyone in front of the processor, but there were still some nuances, foreground programs (currently in use) the priority is higher than that of the background program. You can adjust the application priority by yourself. Open the task manager, click the process tab, select an application process, and right-click it. A shortcut menu is displayed, select "set priority". There are 6 levels: Real-time, high, high and standard, standard, lower than standard, and low. You can schedule your program to a higher or lower level (naturally freeing up resources for other programs. If you do not know the specific process of an application, you can perform the following operations: click the "application" tab, right-click a task, and select "go to process ", it will go to the process of the program, so that you can find the process of the program.

11. optimized the "Startup and fault recovery" Settings:

If you find that your hard disk is working hard when your system crashes, it is because Windows XP is writing DUMP files. For us, if you don't want to send this file to Microsoft (wasting phone bills), what is the use of this file? So I suggest you disable it. Right-click "my computer", click Properties, and click "advanced". In the "Start and fault recovery" column, click "Settings ", in the "system failure" column, select "Automatic Restart", and write debugging information select "NONE ".

12. Disable "Error Reporting:

When an error occurs in your Windows XP, the system automatically collects some error information and sends it to Microsoft, to improve their operating system (another function that wastes telephone bills and is useless), we recommend that you turn it off. If this function is useless to you, why should it occupy your memory? Right-click "my computer", click Properties, click "advanced" → "Error Report", and select "Disable Error Report.

13. Disable the "Internet time synchronization" function:

If synchronization is enabled, your computer clock will be synchronized once a week with the Internet time server. We recommend that you turn it off (a function that is not very useful ). Click Start> Control Panel> date, time, language, and Region options, and then click Date and Time> Internet time ".

14. Disable Dr. Watson:

Enter the "drwtsn32" command in "start"-> "run, or "start"-> "program"-> "accessories"-> "System Tools"-> "system information"-> "Tools"-> "Dr Watson ", call Dr. Hua from the system. watson, only retain the "dump all thread context" option. Otherwise, the hard disk will read for a long time and occupy a large amount of space in case of a program error. In this case, find the user. dmp file, which can save dozens of MB after deletion.

　　

15. Set the DMA mode of the IDE device:

For some reason, Windows XP sometimes uses PIO parallel input/output transmission mode on the IDE channel, rather than DMA mode. In this case, you can manually change the IDE channel to the DMA mode to reduce the CPU cycle occupied by the device. Open the Device Manager (right-click my computer, select Properties, click the hardware tab, and click "Device Manager"), and then click to expand the branch "ide ata/ATAPI controller, double-click "Primary IDE Channel" and click Advanced Settings. Check the "transport mode" drop-down menu, set all of them to DMA If Available (allow DMA), and click OK. Modify each IDE controller in the same way

16. Cancel the support for zip files:

This is a very good optimization. Windows XP has built-in support for. ZIP files. We can use zip files as folders for browsing. However, the system must use some resources to implement this function. Disabling this function can improve the system performance. The implementation method is very simple. You only need to cancel the registration of zipfldr. dll, click Start-> Run, enter regsvr32/u zipfldr. dll, and press Enter.

17. Disable the quick switch function:

A striking feature of Win XP is "Quick Switch", which makes it possible for many people to use their computers at the same time, however, you must note that each function is always accompanied by resource loss. If your memory is less than 64 MB, Windows XP will be automatically disabled when it is installed, this will increase the pressure on memory that has already been stretched. For m users, enabling this function does not matter, but you do not need this function very much, we recommend that you disable this function. The method is as follows: control panel --> User Account, click "Change User Login or logout party