Speed Up Windows XP from six aspects)

With the development of the Windows operating system, the functions are getting stronger and simpler, but the startup speed of the system is getting slower and slower. Taking the most popular Windows XP as a compliment, many friends try various ways to reduce the startup time and use various optimization techniques or software to accelerate the startup process. Today, I will talk about some practical skills in combination with my long-term experience to help you quickly start Windows XP.

1. disable idle IDE Channels

Acceleration principle: the Windows XP system automatically detects the IDE devices on the computer during startup. Therefore, the idle IDE channel detection is disabled to accelerate the system startup. However, you need to correct the following mistakes: Many people think that you can simply disable idle IDE channels in the BIOS, it is recommended that you disable both the BIOS and the system. First, the first method is ineffective because the XP operating system can bypass the BIOS of the motherboard to independently monitor the various states of the computer hardware, and the other method is redundant. Therefore, you can disable idle IDE channels only in Windows XP.

[Practice]: Right-click "my computer-properties", click "hardware", and then click "Device Manager ", open the "ide ata/PATA controller" (slightly different chips), enter the Primary and Secondary IDE channels, and select "Advanced Settings ", here, find the item "Current transfer mode" is "not applicable" (this is the corresponding to the idle IDE channel) and set the "device type" of this item to "NONE ", OK.

2. manually set IP addresses

Acceleration principle: Windows XP is developed on the basis of Windows 2000. Therefore, it supports a wide range of network functions. In this case, Windows XP automatically checks whether the computer is connected to the LAN after it is started up. However, generally, users access the Internet from a single computer, and basically set the IP address to be automatically obtained during network connection. In this case, the system will search for the DHCP server to assign an IP address to the machine, but the general user will not configure it. This causes the system to take a long time to search for the DHCP server until the IP address is obtained or the service times out. During this period, even if you come to the desktop, the double-click program does not reflect it. This means that many Windows XP users