WINXP system Acceleration

Back up data before modifying the registry.

In the past, we often used "fragment" to make windows run faster. however, the 7200 RPM hard drive sold on the market has been improved in the aspect of seek and transmission. Many models also come with an 8 m cache, in addition, the NTFS file system used by WINXP is more efficient than the fat system. Therefore, the effect of "fragment" on improving computer performance is very limited. Here are 23 practical tips that can greatly improve the computer performance and make WINXP run faster and more reliably. I hope this will help you:

 
1) Installing an ultra-133 hard drive expansion card or an ATA hard drive with 8 m cache in the system can effectively reduce the startup time of the system.

2) increase the memory to MB or more.

3) make sure Windows XP uses the NTFS file system. Check Method: Double-click "my computer", right-click the C: Drive, and select "properties" to check the file system type. If it is FAT32, convert it to NTFS by backing up all important data, then selecting "run" in the "Start" menu, and entering cmd to confirm. Enter convert C:/Fs: NTFs and press enter at the prompt. During this process, it is recommended that you do not interrupt the system abnormally and ensure that there is no virus in the system.

4) disable the file index function. Windows indexing service extracts information from a large number of files on the hard disk and creates a "keyword index". If there are thousands of files on the hard disk, this function can speed up searching for information from these files. However, it takes a lot of time for Windows to create this index, and most people never use this function. To disable this function, double-click "my computer", right-click the hard disk and the subfolders below, select "properties", and cancel "use indexes to quickly find files ". If a warning or error message appears (for example, "Access Denied"), click "Ignore.

5)Upgrade the driver of the motherboard and video cardProgram, Upgrade BIOS.

6)Windows pre-read folders (Windows \ prefetch) are cleared every three months or so. Windows stores frequently-used data in pre-read folders, which can greatly speed up reading when the data needs to be used again. However, after a long time, a large amount of junk data will exist in this folder, which increases the Windows read time and affects the system performance..

7) run the disk cleanup program once a month to delete temporary and useless files. Method: Double-click "my computer", right-click "C: Drive", select "properties", and click "Disk Cleanup.

8) in "device administrator", double-click the ide ata/atapi controller, and go to the primary/secondary ide channel to set the transfer mode of all connected devices to use DMA (if available ).

9) Update the wiring. After a new hard disk is used, replace the 80-wire ultra-133 cable with all ide devices. If only one hard disk is installed, the hard disk should be installed on the top of the cable. Do not install the interface in the middle of the cable; otherwise, a signal exception may occur. For ultra DMA hard drive, these abnormal signals will affect the drive's optimal performance.

10) Clear all spyware (spyware ). There are a lot of free software such as adaware that can complete this task. After being cleared, all software containing spyware will not work normally. If you need a software, reinstall it.

11) Remove unnecessary programs from the Startup Group. Method: select "run" in the "Start" menu and enter "msconfig" to go to the "Start" tab. Cancel the project that you do not want to load when the system starts. For uncertain projects, refer to "wintasks process library", which contains a description of known system processes, applications, and spyware. You can also search by Google or other Web search engines.

12) enter the "Add/delete programs" option in the control panel to delete unnecessary and unnecessary programs.

13) Disable all unnecessary animations and active desktops. Method: click "system" in the control panel to go to the "advanced" tab and set "performance". On the "Visual Effects" tab, select "Custom" single region and set the user interface features to disabled.

14) use the tweak-XP software to edit the system registry to further improve performance.

15) regularly visit the Microsoft Windows Update site to download all updates marked with the "critical (Major)" mark.

16) Update the anti-virus software every week. It is best to install only one anti-virus software in the system. Installing multiple sets of software will adversely affect the performance.

17) the number of installed fonts should not exceed 500. Too many fonts will slow the system down.

) Do not partition hard disks. The NTFS file system of Windows XP is more efficient on a large partition. Previously, hard disks were partitioned to facilitate data organization or reinstall the operating system without formatting the entire hard disk. In the NTFS file system of Windows XP, you do not have to re-format the partition to reinstall the operating system. You can use folders to organize data. For example, if you do not need to put a large amount of data on another D: disk, you can create a folder named "d disk", where data will not affect system performance, it can also play a very good organizational role.

19) test whether the memory stick (RAM) is in good condition. We recommend that you use the free memtest86 program to create a boot disk with this program. After you start the computer with this disk, the program will run 10 different tests on the memory, each of which will be tested three times. If an error occurs during the test, shut down the computer, unplug one of the memory stick (if there are multiple), and re-test. Drop the bad memory stick and replace it with a good one.

20) If a CD or DVD recorder is installed on a computer, sometimes upgrading the driver can make the burning faster.

21) Cancel unnecessary services. Windows XP calls services that many users may not be able to use at all. These services not only affect the running speed, but also impair system security. Therefore, you can disable unnecessary system services as needed. Method: select "run" in the "Start" menu, enter "services. msc" to open "Service Management Console", and start or stop the service by changing the Service Startup type.

22)If you feel that the windows browser is slow, you can improve it by opening "my computer ", click "Tools"-> "Folder Options"-> "View" and select "Open folder window with independent processes ". This prevents a slow device from affecting the response speed of the user interface..

23) Open the chassis and clean the dust and debris at least once a year. At the same time, check whether all the fans are working normally and whether the capacitors on the motherboard have been expanded or leaked.

So far, I have used 23 strokes once. Are you more satisfied with your system?

Note: Although "fragment sorting" has limited effect on improving computer performance, a hard disk without fragments consumes less power than a hard disk with fragments. Moreover, if the hard disk is damaged, if the data on the hard disk is stored continuously, it is easier to recover. therefore, we recommend that you perform "fragment" on the hard disk every several months to a year based on the machine usage ".

 

Desktop wallpapers can still be stored. This is not the most critical reason for the system. (But you should not put a large wallpaper. I once saw a user's wallpaper made of 10 MB JPG smear. Before using an image as a wallpaper, you must optimize the size and color of the image. The system will not be affected as long as the image is appropriate. In addition, do not place the flash activedesktop on the desktop, which will occupy a large amount of system resources .)

 

1. Load too many programs at startup

2. Enable tablecloth on the desktop

3. Hard Disks are not cleaned regularly and hard disks are restructured.

In the following, I will explain in detail how to speed up the computer and slow the computer! Solve the seven major culprit affecting computer performance when the computer suddenly slows down, you may wonder if you have done something wrong and caused damage to the computer? In fact, you don't have to worry too much about it, because a small change may affect the computer's operation performance, and it will inevitably lead to a variety of slight changes in the process of using the computer. If there is always a way to solve any problem, let me explain the seven common causes that affect computer performance. After solving these problems, we can enjoy the high performance of computers with peace of mind.

4. Delete resident programs

What is resident procedure? Resident programs are the programs loaded at startup, and those programs are called resident programs. Resident programs not only slow down the boot speed, but also consume computer resources and memory more quickly, but you may ask: All those programs are useful! What I can answer is: Do you want useful programs to sacrifice speed, or do you want them to reply quickly? Think about it! In general, if you want to delete a resident program, you can delete it in the "Start" list, but if you want to see more details, such as software such as ICQ and popkiller, it cannot be deleted from the "Start" list. Go to "affiliated Applications", go to "System Tools", and then "system information, press "tool" in the tool column above, and then press "System Configuration editing program". Then, in the "Start" dialog box, the resident programs loaded when the computer is started will be listed in detail!

5. Do not place tablecloths on the desktop or close activedesktop.

I wonder if you have noticed that the tablecloths we have always placed on the desktop are a waste of computer resources! Not only that, but it also slows down the speed at which the computer executes applications! I wanted to beautify the desktop, but slowed down the speed of the computer. At this moment, do you have a feeling of "somehow? Another point is whether you have tried it. When you open a tablecloth, when you close a window that is placed to the maximum, the window will always fall down, slowly, and slowly, if this happens, you must disable the tablecloth! To do this, right-click the desktop, and then press the content. In the "background" dialog box, select "NONE". In the "appearance" dialog box, we recommend that you, change the default green color on the desktop to black ...... to close activedesktop, you can close the Web screen from the desktop. For example, right-click the desktop and then press the content. In the "background" dialog box, there is a tablecloth named Windows98, that is the Web screen! Therefore, do not enable it. In my opinion, cloth can only be described in four words, that is, "shame and Sorrow "."!

6. Delete unnecessary Fonts

One of the reasons for slow system operation is the relationship between fonts! The more fonts installed, the more memory occupied, thus slowing down the computer speed! Therefore, we need to delete unnecessary fonts. To delete unnecessary fonts, you can go to the console and go to a data folder named "fonts" to delete the fonts. But how can we know that these words are useful, which words are useless? For example, if you do not often use ms_dos mode, delete the DOS font! Because everyone may like some fonts, I am not sure to delete those fonts. However, I am here to tell you how to delete them, we recommend that you delete the font of the new image. If you have a new image and a new one, delete it!

7. reorganize hard disks on a regular basis

The smallest unit of a computer's hard disk is a sector. An archive usually occupies several sectors. After countless new, changed, and deleted archives are added and used for a long time, this will cause a lot of intermittent sectors, so there will be more and more non-continuous files, and the hard disk head needs to spend more time jumping to read data, which leads to a slow speed of the hard disk. If you can see this, Windows will see "reorganizing disks. As long as the disk is reorganized, all non-continuous files will be re-organized neatly. As for the execution time, it will take about one week to execute.

8. Set virtual memory

There is a big data exchange file in the hard disk, which is reserved by the system for the virtual memory for temporary storage, and is often used by many applications, therefore, the system often needs to perform a large amount of data access to the primary storage. Therefore, the speed of accessing this file constitutes a very important factor affecting the speed of the computer! Generally, the default value of Win98 is that the system automatically manages the virtual memory, which automatically adjusts the swap size according to the needs of different programs. However, this increase or decrease will bring additional burden to the system, this slows down system operations! As you can see, it is best for users to customize the minimum and maximum values of virtual memory to avoid frequent resizing. To set the virtual memory, right-click my computer and then press content to go to the "performance" dialog box and press "Virtual Memory ", then select "set virtual memory Settings" and set "minimum value" to 64. Because my computer is 32 mbram, I set it to 64, that is, if your memory is 64 mbram, set it to 128 in "minimum. By the way, in the "performance" dialog box, select "file" and change the previously set "desktop computer" to "network server", which will speed up system operation; also, in the "disk" dialog box, do not select "Search for a New disk drive every boot", which will speed up the boot!

9. Change the setting at startup.

Although you already know how to add and remove some resident programs, do you know what the computer is doing during the period from boot to Win98? Or, what program is executed? Those programs must be fully loaded before entering Win98. have you ever wondered if you can delete unnecessary programs during startup will the boot speed be faster? The answer is yes! To modify the settings, press start, select execute, and type win. INI. After it is enabled, you can delete the content of the following sections. Delete the content and do not delete the title! They include: [compatibility], [compatibility32], [imecompatibility], [compatibility95], [modulecompatibility], and [embedding].

10. Permanently delete the program

As we all know, if you want to remove some programs, you can remove them in "Add/Remove Programs", but you do not know that it will only help you remove the programs, but will not help you remove the registration code of the program and some login projects? This is not the dumb of Win98, but it is not professional enough in this regard. It is necessary to completely delete the program and retrieve some "professional" deletion software to remove it! Previously Symantec nortonuninstall (hereinafter referred to as NUD), because some part of the copyright of some deleted software has been damaged, so the world has stopped selling, so Symantec was outCleansweep(Hereinafter referred to as CS), but NUD is superior in terms of functionality! To put it bluntly, in addition to the two software, there are many similar software that can effectively remove the program. Since NUD is out of print, let me say CS. After downloading and installing the program, if you want to remove the program, you only need to remove it with Cs, And it will remove the login project and registration code of the program! I am here to help "Add/Remove Programs" change the alias, that is, "add garbage, Remove Programs "! Spam refers to an abandoned login project and registration code. A program is an application!

Make good use of your book-optimize the laptop system under WINXP

It is well known that laptop upgrades are difficult. One side is the XP era, which is often eye-catching, and the other side is the huge budget for changing the laptop and the reluctance to share the difficulties and difficulties of the old man over the years. In this regard, where are all laptop users? Linyuan Xiaoyu is better to get rid of the Internet. Next I will introduce to you how to make WINXP run faster on a laptop based on my usual practical experience.

I. hardware upgrade

Because of the high integration level of the laptop, the memory capacity and hard disk capacity can be upgraded. Replacing the latest hard disk with a 5400-to-10% ~ An increase of about 15% is satisfactory in terms of noise and energy consumption.

For a laptop, there will never be too much memory. In order to make up for the inherent shortage of hard disk performance, we need more memory capacity to support it. I have tested on my laptop. When the standard memory is 20% MB, the disk performance ratio decreases by nearly 244 (the pcmark2002 HDD score is 296 and respectively, the machine is Compaq presario 1700, And the CPU is old P ⅲ-850 MHz ). Many software optimization methods described below depend on large memory capacity. For the WINXP system, the MB memory is basically enough, and the MB memory is more suitable. The larger memory size is less effective for the laptop. I strongly recommend that you take your laptop to the market, and your laptop will usually "pick a note", so don't confuse yourself with compatibility issues.

Ii. Software Transformation

Although the following measures are not as immediate as hardware upgrades, they can also significantly improve system performance.

1. Optimized disk speed

We recommend that you use the NTFS partition format when installing WINXP. This partition format is more stable and has higher disk utilization and hard disk fragmentation. As for the security and complex settings of the NTFS partition format system proposed by Microsoft, it is not the scope of this article.

In the past, people advocated that operating systems and applications should be partitioned for management, but they had to make another plan for their laptops. In fact, when calling different partition files, the disk performance is much lower than calling the same partition file, especially when calling large programs or performing frequent disk read/write operations, when partitioning, it is best to divide the system partition into larger ones to install the system and applications, which will improve the disk performance in use.

Sometimes WINXP uses Pio parallel input/output transmission mode on the IDE channel, instead of DMA mode. Open "Device Manager" (right-click "my computer", select "Properties> hardware> Device Manager"), and click "Ide ATA/atapi controller" to expand the branch, double-click "Main ide channel", click "Advanced Settings", and select "DMA (if available)" in "Transfer Mode "..

2. wash all the lead and increase the speed

One of the major selling points of WINXP is to be more beautiful and more gorgeous. To improve the overall performance of the entire system, we can only endure for these beautiful appearances.

Adjust appearance: First, open "Control Panel", select "performance and maintenance" in "category View", and then select "Adjust visual effect ", in the displayed "Visual page", select "adjust to optimal performance", and click "change" on the "advanced" page to change the virtual memory settings, set the virtual memory size to 1.5 ~ of the memory capacity ~ 2.5 times, the partition is naturally a system partition.

Close the language bar: The Language bar not only consumes a lot of performance, but also often causes "false death ". On the Control Panel, select "region and language options", click "details" on the "language" page, and click "language bar, remove all the hooks before the options on the pop-up page, and click "OK" to close the language bar. Close quick search: if you do not frequently search for files, you can disable quick search. First Open "my computer", right-click the drive and select "properties", and then "cancel" to use the index to quickly find the file.

Close zip support: click "start", type regsvr32/u zipfldr. dll in "run", and press enter to cancel the function..

Set msconfig: This is a built-in windows setting tool. Click the Start menu, select "run", type "msconfig", and press Enter. Click the "Start" tab. This page displays all programs that run when Windows is started. After removing some hooks, WINXP is faster to start, and there are more idle system resources. If you want to speed up the startup, you can download microsoft's bootvis.exe, a tool developed by the XP development team to speed up the startup. Http // www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp.

Finally, remove the shadow of the mouse pointer. Open "Control Panel", select the "Pointer" page in the "Mouse" option, and remove the hook before the "enable pointer shadow" option.

3. Speed extraction in the Registry

Registry is the core component of WINXP. Adjusting registry settings based on machine conditions can effectively increase the system speed. Microsoft consciously sets many conservative parameters to ensure maximum compatibility of WINXP systems. What we need to do next is to adjust these parameters based on the situation of their respective machines to make WINXP run faster.

(1)Modifies the second-level cache of the CPU. Under normal circumstances, WINXP automatically identifies the second-level cache of the CPU, but sometimes it does not, so it needs to be manually optimized to improve the CPU performance. First find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ sessionmanager \ Memory Management \ secondleveldatacache, and then modify the decimal key value according to the CPU usage. If the CPU is celerona or celeron2, change it to 128; if the CPU is mobile P ⅱ or p iii of the copper ore core, change it to 256; if the CPU is Katmai core p III or the latest mobile PIV, change it to 512. Restart the system to take effect..

(2) modify the disk cache. Disk cache plays a vital role in running WINXP. Next we will adjust the default Conservative I/O page files based on different memory sizes. First, find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ sessionmanager \ Memory Management \ to create a dual-byte key value named iopagelocklimit, and then modify its hexadecimal value based on the memory capacity. Change 64 MB to 1000; 4000 MB to 10000; 40000 MB to; MB or larger. Finally, restart the machine to make the settings take effect.

(3) modify the pre-read settings. WINXP uses the pre-read technology to speed up the system. If you have P ⅲ MHz and above MB memory, I recommend that you modify it. Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Session Manager \ Memory Management \ prefetchparameters \ enableprefetcher, set the value to 3, and restart. This reduces the startup time. However, you can try to change the data to a value greater than 3 to see what the result will be :). In addition, when WINXP is used for a period of time, the files in the pre-read folder (the specific location is C \ windows \ prefetch) will become very large, and there are many dead-link files in it, we recommend that you delete these files regularly.

(4) Remove the slider menu delay. This improves the system speed. In the registry, locate HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ menushowdelay and change the value to 0. Then, restart the computer and the change takes effect.

Handler clears useless DLL files in the memory. After a computer is used for a long time, some DLL files are stored in the memory for a long time, which greatly reduces the memory utilization. To prevent this, find the Registry location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer and create a file named alwaysunloaddll. The dubyte value of 1, and then restart.

BytesImprove system cache. In the registry, find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ sessionmanager \ Memory Management \ largesystemcache and change its value from 0 to 1, in this way, WINXP will allocate all the system memory except the disk cache to the file system cache, which can greatly improve the system speed. In general, this optimization will greatly improve the system performance, but may also reduce the performance of some applications. Note that your system must have more than MB of memory to enable this function. Otherwise, do not change it..

Quota acceleration sharing view. Generally, when WINXP is connected to another computer, it will check all the scheduled tasks on the other computer. This is a waste of time! Next, we will disable this process. In the registry, locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ current version \ Explorer \ remotecomputer \ namespace, delete the D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00aa0060f5bf key, and restart the computer, WINXP does not check the scheduled task any more, so the network speed will be significantly improved.

✓ Optimized system/CMOS Real-time clock. The system/CMOS Real-time clock can be optimized through the motherboard to improve performance. Locate the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ prioritycontrol in the Registry and create a DWORD dubyte value named irq8priority (System/CMOS Real-time clock's IRQ interrupt number is 8) here, set its value to 1. After the computer is restarted, the performance of the entire motherboard can be improved.

⑼ Automatically ends the task when the computer is disabled. A dialog box is displayed to remind you whether or not a program is still running. We can modify the registry so that WINXP can automatically end these programs that are still running. Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop in the Registry and change the augoendtasks key value to 1. If the key value cannot be found, you can create a string value and change it to this name. Setting the value to 1 can also achieve the goal.

With this "soft and hard" operation, we believe WINXP can run more smoothly on your laptop. A try may surprise you.