All about Win XP's optimization tips

Collect all the optimization tips on Win xp

Windows XP is known by Microsoft as the most perfect operating system in its history, with all the features and faster speeds that dazzle you, and of course all of this puts a higher demand on the hardware of your computer, if you want Windows XP to be able to take up as little of your limited system resources as possible, You may wish to have a "minor operation" for it according to your own needs.

First, the use of simple interface XP after the installation of the default interface, including the taskbar, Start menu, desktop Background, windows, buttons, etc. are used by the luxury of XP, dazzling style, but the shortcomings are obvious, they will consume a lot of system resources, but not practical significance.

Right-click the desktop space, click "Properties" in the pop-up menu to enter the Display Properties Settings window, the "theme, appearance" are set to "Windows Classic", the desktop background set to "None", press OK to save exit.

Second, reduce the startup project many applications in the installation will be added to the system Startup group, each boot system will automatically run, which not only extended the start time, and after the completion of the system resources have been eaten a lot!

Select "Run" from the "Start" menu, type "msconfig" to start the System Configuration Utility and go to the "Start" tab, which lists the items and sources that were loaded when the system was started, and carefully see if you need it to load automatically, otherwise clear the current check box of the item, and the fewer items to load, The speed of initiation is naturally faster. This item requires a reboot before it can take effect.

Third, optimize the visual effects select the Advanced tab in System Properties into the performance options interface, where you can choose from visual effects: automatically set to the best, best appearance, best performance, customization.

The more effects you select, the more system resources you use, and the selection of the best performance item closes the list of all visual effects, such as fade, smooth scrolling, sliding open, and so on.

Turn off System Restore by default, System Restore is enabled, with each drive taking up up to 4%~12% of hard disk space, and the system-restored monitoring system automatically creates restore points so that running in the background consumes more system resources.

Five, speed up the menu display Speed Run Registry Editor, enter "Hkey_current_usercontrol paneldesktop", the name of the Menushowdelay data value from the original default of 400 modified to 0, after the change of the XP Start menu, Even the menu display of the application software will be significantly faster.

Six, the use of DMA transfer Mode DMA, that is, direct memory storage mode, refers to the computer peripheral equipment (mainly refers to the hard disk) can directly and memory exchange data, which can speed up the hard disk read and write speed, improve speed according to transmission rate. Select the Hardware tab in System properties to open Device Manager, where the IDE controller has two "Primary IDE Channel" and "Secondary IDE Channel", followed by "Properties → advanced settings", which lists the The transfer mode of the device connected to the previous IDE interface, click the list button to set "transfer mode" to "DMA"

Vii. changes to the temporary file storage path most applications generate temporary files at run time, and these temporary files are saved by default in the boot partition C disk, long time to read and write C disk very easy to produce a large number of file fragments, which affect the performance of C disk, and C disk is the storage system to start the core file partition, The performance of C disk directly affects the stability and operation efficiency of the system. As far as possible, the application software should be installed in a partition other than the boot disk, and the hard drive will be organized on a regular basis, which minimizes disk fragmentation and keeps the boot or read-write speed in the best state.

The temporary file files in the computer are saved in the burn Temp folder in C disk before burning, go to Explorer, select the Burner letter and click the "Properties" item of the right mouse button, and under the "Record" tab, you can place the temporary folder in the other drive. My document [method] Right-click My Documents, and in the property settings item, you can modify the default save path for My Documents to other letter characters.

Viii. Increase virtual memory [method] Enter the Advanced Settings window of performance options to first adjust processor scheduling and memory usage to program Optimization mode.

Click the "Change" button to enter the Virtual Memory Settings window, if your memory is greater than 256M, we recommend that you disable the paging file. The default paging file is 1.5 times times the physical memory. Disabling system caching requires a reboot of the system.