Feb
9
2007
9
2007
The complete guide to optimizing Windows XP
Under Tips & Tricks By chandu
Windows XP will be the dominant operating system for the next years even though Microsoft released the successor Windows Vista just a few days ago. The major disadvantage of Vista is that it is hardware hungry and poses problems to users of Windows XP who would like to change but can’t because of the hardware of their computer.
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The complete guide to optimizing Windows XP
Originally from gHacks tech news by
1. Cacheman includes a performance slowing RAM optimizer and other useless tweaks such as IOPagelocklimit.
2. The Paging File information is total nonsense, leave it at system managed.
3. Turning off System Restore does not improve performance.
4. The /prefetch:1 switch is a total Myth
5. Deleting Temp Files does not improve performance, it only improves Disk Space and irresponsibly telling people to create a useless Batch file that runs at system shutdown to delete these will REDUCE shutdown times.
6. ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 is a total Myth and does absolutely nothing on Windows XP.
This guide also includes other erroneous items that have not been proven to improve performance or is simply bad advice. It should be called the “The Completely Guide to Useless and Performance Slowing Tweaks”.
Oh and Optimising should be spelled - Optimizing
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