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| Top 20 Tips To Keep Your System Faster !!
Follow these tips and you will definitely have a much faster and more reliable PC! Most of the below tips works for windows Xp 1. Wallpapers: They slow your whole system down, so if you're willing to compromise, have a basic plain one instead!
2.
Drivers: Update your hardware drivers as frequently as possible. New
drivers tend to increase system speed especially in the case of
graphics cards, their drivers are updated by the manufacturer very
frequently!
3. Minimizing: If you want to use several programs
at the same time then minimize those you are not using. This helps
reduce the overload on RAM.
4. Boot Faster: The 'starting
Windows 95/98' message on startup can delay your booting for a couple
of seconds. To get rid of this message go to c:\ and find the file
Msdos.sys. Remove the Read-Only option. Next, open it in Notepad or any
other text editor. Finally, go to the text 'Options' within the file
and make the following changes: Add BootDelay=0. To make your booting
even faster, set add Logo=0 to remove the Windows logo at startup.
5.
Restart only Windows: When restarting your PC, hold down Shift to only
restart Windows rather than the whole system which will only take a
fraction of the time.
6. Turn Off Animations: Go to Display
Settings from the Control Panel and switch to the Effects Tab. Now turn
off Show Windows Content While Dragging and Smooth Edges on Screen
Fonts. This tip is also helpful with Windows XP because of the various
fade/scroll effects.
7. Faster Start-Menu Access: Go to the
Start menu and select Run. Now type Regedit and hit Enter. The Registry
Editor will appear on the screen. Now, open the folder
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop. You should see a MenuShowDelay
value. If you don't then do the following: right click on a blank space
in the right pane and select New\String. Change the name in the new
value to MenuShowDelay. Now that we have the MenuShowDelay value,
double click on it and enter 0 in the value data field. This sets the
start menu delay to 0 milliseconds.
8. Resolutions: If you are
willing to do anything for faster performance from your PC, then try
lowering your display resolution. The lower it is, the faster your PC.
9.
Turn off Active Desktop: Go to your Display Properties and switch to
the Web tab. Uncheck View My Active Desktop As a Web Page. Since the
Active Desktop option under Windows 98 uses a lot of system resources,
this option can have a dramatic effect on the speed of the whole
system.
10. Defragment Often: Windows 98's Defrag tool uses
Application Acceleration from Intel which means that when you
defragment your drive, data is physically arranged on the drive so that
applications will load faster.
11. Take your PC to Bed: Using
the Advanced Power Management feature under Windows 98 gives you the
option to use the sleep command. That way, you can send your PC to
sleep instead of shutting it down and then restarting it. It's as
simple as pressing a button and then pressing the same button to wake
it up. You can tell Windows after how many minutes/hours of inactivity
to automatically sleep the machine in the Advanced Power Management
section of the Control Panel.
12. Faster Internet Access: If
you use the internet for reference and the sites you visit are rarely
updated then try the following. In IE (the same can be done in
Netscape) go to Tools, Internet Options. Next, click on Settings... in
the Temporary Internet Files section. Finally, select Never for the
first option and double the amount of storage space to use, click OK!
13.
Benchmarking: Benchmarking can be very useful when run frequently. It
can tell you how your PC's components are performing and then compare
them to other machines like yours. For example, when you overclock your
PC, you want to know how much more speed you have and whether it is
stable. All this and more can be discovered using benchmarking. An
excellent piece of software for doing this job is SiSoft Sandra which
can be found in the Downloads File Archive!
14. Refresh the
Taskbar without restarting: If you in some way change the taskbar,
either in Regedit or elsewhere, you can refresh the task bar without
restarting. Hold down Ctrl Alt Del, and double click on Explorer. Say
Yes to close Explorer, but no to closing Windows. This will refresh the
Taskbar and system tray.
15. Quick CD Eject: Instead of
pushing the button on your drive, right-click your CD drive letter in
My Computer and click on Eject. This will also remove any icons that
have become associated with the CD drive.
16. Start Up
Programs: Windows can be slowed down when programs run on start up. To
eliminate this, check your Start up folder. You can access it from the
start menu: Start, Programs, Start Up. Another way to eliminate
programs from loading even before Windows actually starts is by doing
the following: Click on Start, then Run. Type msconfig. It will take
quite a long time for this program to load, but when you finally see it
on your screen, explore the different tabs. They all have to do with
how quickly your PC boots, so select what you want, and uncheck what
you don't want!
17. Fonts: When Windows starts, it loads every
single font in the Fonts folder. Therefore, the more fonts you have,
the slower the booting process. To get rid of unwanted fonts, simply go
to the Fonts folder under c:\windows and remove whatever you don't
want. Fonts that have a red letter 'A' as their icon are system fonts,
so don't delete them.
18. Stretching Wallpapers: Don't
"stretch" your wallpaper in Windows 98 since it actually slows Windows
down when you drag icons around on the desktop.
19. RAM
Matters: If you have less than 32MB then you should seriously think of
upgrading it to at least 64MB. Windows runs much more smoothly with
64MB or higher and tends to use less hard disk space for virtual
memory.
20. Partitioning: A very nice little thing you can do
to boost system performance. By partitioning your hard drive, splitting
one physical drive into several logical ones, you can gain several
advantages. 1. If you get a virus or you accidentally format a drive,
not all will be lost. 2. By placing the swap file (Win386.swp) on a
separate drive, The swap file will be less fragmented and thus, faster.
3. Place Windows on a separate drive and whenever you need to reinstall
it, you rest assured that your data is safe on a separate drive.
Partitioning can be done using a few programs such as FDisk which comes
with DOS. However, FDisk formats everything on the hard disk before
partitioning. Alternatively, you can use Partition Magic from Power
Quest to partition your hard disk without losing your data.
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