Windows XP Home User Memory Optimization Guide _windowsxp

A lot of people's home only a computer, mainly used to surf the internet and play games, and configuration is not very high, if installed on Windows XP, you can use a word to describe the feeling: slow! That's one of the experiences I've had when I finished installing the Windows Experience version (the Chinese name of Windows XP). Why is it so slow, because Microsoft, in order for you to have a new experience, so a lot of new features are added to Windows XP, such as: Help Center, Remote Desktop, system Recovery, automatic software updates, Internet time synchronization ..., for me, these functions are basically not used, white memory consumption. To be aware, most people's machines are still only 128m (although my machine has 384m of memory, but I still hate meaningless waste)! Here we talk about the memory optimization of Windows XP.
My version of Windows XP is build2600, because Windows XP is a globally harmonized product of the inner-code type, so although its interface is in English, handling Chinese should be a bit of a deal. If you are in the Chinese version of Windows XP, the steps described in this article are also feasible.
　　
　　 first let's start with the System Properties dialog window
　　
　　 we will turn off system recovery, Automatic Updates, and Remote Desktop functionality separately.

"System Recovery" is useful for people who often make mistakes, but it keeps your hard drive in a highly busy state, and you'll find that your hard drive is always busy because of the operations Windows XP has to record in order to recover later. If you have faith in yourself, then do not use it, because it can account for a lot of memory.

Then turn off the Automatic Updates feature. This feature is ideal for a user who hangs online all the time, but given that most families are dial-up, there is no reason to keep this feature open. Moreover, the upgrading of Microsoft is not always a new launch, we have every time to update their own completely can. I recommend that you change the default automatic upgrade to confirm the upgrade so that you understand what the system is doing.

Next we will also turn off the function of "Remote Desktop". This feature is familiar, because Windows Server has a terminal service to do the same thing, we can find Microsoft's strategy, in the Windows 2000 era, only the servers version of Windows 2000 only with this feature , and the name is also very professional, called Terminal Services, I am afraid that the general user does not know what this function is. To Windows XP, this feature was added to the Windows XP Home and Professional version, and renamed Remote Desktop. As the name suggests, this feature allows you to allow others to access your desktop on another machine. It can be said that in a network environment, such as units of the local area network, this function is very useful. For example, if you have a problem, you can ask a colleague for help, he can not go to your front, directly through the "Remote Desktop" to access your machine to help you solve the problem. But at home, there is usually only one computer, this function is redundant, so Microsoft has given its new function called "Fast User Switching", that is, you can not log off your users to let another person to register as another user to use your computer. I personally doubt its practical value, most people use computers do not have the concept of users, computers used on the chant, but also what users. So my opinion or turn it off, otherwise you do not use it is tantamount to wasting memory.

　　 Let's take a look at the Advanced tab in System Properties, first of all, "performance" Settings

In the absence of the situation, Windows XP is configured according to the best visual effect, if you think your system, especially the display part of the very slow, I suggest you change, the following is my configuration:
　　
　　 take a look at the "Start and restore" setting:
　　
Although Windows XP is very stable, there are times when it crashes. If your system crashes when you find your hard drive ringing, because Windows XP is writing a dump file, what's the use for us if you're not going to send this file to Microsoft? So my advice is still to close:
　　
　　 Finally, look at the "Error Reporting" feature.
　　
This feature can be used when your Windows XP error occurs, the system automatically collects some error information and then sends it to Microsoft to perfect their operating system. This feature is very inappropriate for a dial-up user, because who spends his or her time trying to send out data that is huge and useful only to Microsoft? If this function does not work for you, then why let it occupy your memory?
　　
　 Finally, let's look at what extra functionality is available. Install the diagram into the system's list of services: 　　
　　
If you don't have a printer in your home, you can turn off the "printer spooler" service. If you don't have a regular task, turn the Task Scheduler service off. For most people, "Remote Registry" is also useless and can be shut down. Here is a list of all the optimized services above, and I've labeled the optimized places with red-colored circles:
　　
　　 after optimization, Windows XP starts to occupy approximately 60m of memory after startup: 　　
　　
Also, as you can see here, I only care about the use of "virtual memory" (VM size) for each application, not "Memory usage" (Memory usage). The reason is that only "virtual memory" is counted to "memory use" (Commit charge) data, which is the statistic you see in the status bar. We can do a little experiment to validate my claim that we start Word, record its memory usage and total memory usage, and then minimize this word, checking its memory usage and system total memory usage, and the results are as follows:
　　 　　
　　 minimizing memory records prior to

It is not hard to find that "memoryusage" has become smaller as word is minimized, and "VM size" has not changed, and the total memory usage of the system has not changed as word has been minimized. That's why I'm only concerned with VM size. I want you to look at the memory and notice that the VM size is the exact number.
　　
　　Because this article is concerned with Windows XP system optimization, so for some of the familiar memory-saving methods, such as not using wallpaper, I will not write out to let everyone waste time. Also, you might say that you've turned off the features of Windows XP, is that Windows XP? In fact, I also know that, but the fish and bear can not have both, if your machine configuration is very high-end, if you think you have to run Windows XP is not slow, you can certainly use the province of Windows XP configuration, after all, this is the Microsoft recommended use method. However, even if you close the features I mentioned, Windows XP still has a lot of new features waiting for you, such as the new resource manager is really very different, so the optimized system is still windows XP!