XP practical optimization Tips for the big broadcast

Long-term use of the Windows XP hibernation feature, you will find that the system will soon become unstable. It's best to press Ctrl+alt+del, click the Processes tab in the Windows Task Manager window that pops up, locate the Explorer.exe file, and then click the End Process button at the bottom of the window, regardless of the Windows XP response. Then switch to the "Applications" tab and click on the "New Task" button below. In the "Create New Task" dialog box that pops up, enter: Explorer.exe, and then click the "OK" button.

Turn off the quick toggle feature

Fast switching is a dazzling feature in Windows XP. If your computer has less than 64MB of memory, it will be automatically banned during installation of Windows XP, but for users with 96MB, 128MB, or even more memory, the system will automatically turn on the feature, and if the feature is not needed, consider turning it off. Run the user Accounts option in Control Panel, select change User login or logoff, and uncheck the Use Fast User Switching check box.

Turn off idle processes to improve performance

The advantage of this is that it can be very useful when playing 3D games. In the Run dialog box, enter: Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,processidletasks, then enter.

Troubleshooting Windows XP shutdown slow

Some users notice that the computer shuts down becomes slow after installing Windows XP. If you have an Nvidia video card installed, you'll have to find out why. Most of the time, this is caused by a service called "NVIDIA Driver Helper service." We generally do not need this service, and it consumes a lot of system resources. The method of closing is to open the control Panel → administrative tools → services, locate and right-click the Vidia Driver Helper Service item in the Pop-up window, select Properties, and in the drop-down list box that is started, select Disabled.

Turn off Indexing Service to improve performance

In the "Run" command, enter: Msconfig, then select the "Services" tab, find the Indexing Service, remove the previous small tick. Or, in the Services dialog box, set its startup type to disabled.

Reduce startup time for Windows XP

Open "Registry Editor" and locate Hkey_local_machinesystemcurrentcontrolsetcontrol Session managermemory managementprefetchparameters, Change the value of the key named Enableprefetcher to 5 and restart the computer.

Faster user Switching and network connection speeds

Open Registry Editor to find [Heky_local_machine/osoftware/microsoft/windows Nt/currentversion/winlogon], Create a new string value of KeepRasConnections and set its value to 1.

Speed up the startup of some burning software

If you do not use the Windows XP Burn feature and choose Other software, you can go to the control Panel → administrative tools → services, double-click the IMAPI cd-burning COM service and set it to "disabled", which will speed up the startup of some burning software.

Windows XP is currently the most used operating system, and for this reason Bookworm has compiled its own experience of using Windows XP in these years as a serial dedicated to everyone. All strive to refine, practical. This is a Windows XP optimization trick that everyone cares about today. Because of the length of the article, we are divided into the upper and lower three distributed. This is the third part.

To turn off useless performance counters

By default, Windows XP runs several performance registers that are primarily used to monitor a variety of hardware or services, and it is recommended to turn it off because the information that is logged is not useful to the average user at all. This will also improve the overall performance of the system. Here we want to borrow the Extended Performance counter List tool provided by Microsoft (download address: http://download.microsoft.com/download/win2000platform/exctrlst/1.00.0.1/nt5/ En-us/exctrlst_setup.exe), this tool can list all the performance registers in the system and show whether it is loaded or closed. The closed method is also very simple, just select a register, and then uncheck the following check to select.

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If you cancel the performance counters, the monitoring features in the performance item in Control Panel → Administrative tools are limited.

See how many programs XP has in secret contact with Microsoft

You may not know that while you are on the Internet, Windows XP has a lot of programs that are also secretly connected to Microsoft, they are mainly those built-in upgrade and authentication features, although there is no evidence that these programs will transfer your personal data back to the Microsoft website, but I believe everyone is very worried about it. Even if there is no privacy leak, these programs will take up your network bandwidth, so it is recommended to use a free software called XP AntiSpy, which allows you to stop those mysterious programs from accessing the network again. The download address for this software is: http://www.xp-antispy.de/index.html.

Restore hardware Previous drivers

When a new hardware driver is installed and you find that the system is unstable or the hardware is not working, simply select the Driver Recovery button in Device Manager to revert to the previous normal system state. However, the driver for the printer cannot be restored.

Force Idle Task Execution

The excellent performance of Windows XP is greatly benefited from its system dynamic adjustment technology, and one of the important part is "idle task", they can be in the system when not in use or idle, automatically in the background to improve system performance, such as: File storage location optimization, System Restore, software operation optimization, etc. All of these "idle tasks" are controlled by Advapi32.dll, so you can force "idle tasks" from the command line to optimize system performance. Click "Start" → "Run", enter in the input box:

Rundll32.exe Advapi32.dll,processidletasks

It takes approximately 15 minutes for the system to run all "idle tasks" after the carriage return.

Solve the problem of XP entering multimedia folder slow

Some Windows XP users will find that when it comes to storing a lot of multimedia files (such as AVI, MPEG, DAT, etc.), the speed becomes very slow, the solution is: Open the "Registry Editor", click "edit" → "find", in "Find Target" entered:, click "Find Next" button , when the item is found, it has a subkey named InProcServer32, and when it is selected, the key values in the right pane are removed, and the Registry Editor is turned off, and the system is restarted to resolve the issue.

Hidden parameters for Windows XP disk grooming

Windows XP Disk Defragmenter Defrag.exe has a hidden parameter that is not even described in the XP Help file, which is-B, after using it, the Defrag tool will optimize the system's startup files and applications (XP can track how often the application is used to adjust its location on the disk) , so as to achieve the purpose of system optimization. You can enter in the command line prompt window:

Defrag C:-B

After the carriage return, the system will defragment the C disk.

Or you can create a shortcut to this command specifically and place it on the desktop for easy startup. However, it takes longer to use this parameter to defragment the disk.

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Additional parameters for Defrag

This command is primarily used for disk grooming from the command line prompt with the command parameter template:

defrag [-A] [-f] [-v] [-?]

Volume: disk drive letter;-A: analysis only;-F: If the free disk is less than the standard also forced to defragment;-V: verbose output;-?: Displays help text.

Reload Explorer.exe to stabilize the system