Comments on: Make Windows XP Blazingly Fast

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:30:44 +0000

If your desktop uses a high-quality background image (like mine) that is a 5MB jpeg image, that effectively wastes 5MB of your RAM

A high-quality JPEG may indeed be 5 MB, but that’s the size on the disk – when it’s been uncompressed it could easily be 100 MB… So, that’s 100 MB to maintain that image in RAM, not 5!

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:52:54 +0000

This is the most complete guide that I came across. Junk and too many startup programs are usually to blame in most cases.

By: Sai

Sai — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:14:54 +0000

I would rather not show my desktop icons at all, instead of creating an icon rather. This would also show your desktop background image clearly ;)

By: Momchil

Momchil — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:21:31 +0000

I would also add that disabling hybernation may be useful.
First it lets you delete the hyberfil.sys which is the same size as the size of RAM.
Second the process of copying the contents of RAM to this file and updating it is stopped.
To copy the ram into a file means to probably copy lots of things you don’t want or need to copy.:)
Of course if you use hybernation the above is not applicable. I think the best state of a hard disk is the disk running. Thus the load and amortisation due to accelleration and deccelleration is in a way minimized.

“There are 10 type of people: those who understand binary and those who do not.”

By: Sunny Agnihotri

Sunny Agnihotri — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:14:25 +0000

Well done !!! I already installed a customized version of windows XP Service pack3 on my machine but after applying some of your tweaks My machine is working really fast…..Thanks for the info

By: Techie Zone

Techie Zone — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:24:17 +0000

Hello,

If we are going to perform couple of steps in Part 1: Increase and Free Memory/RAM
It is of no use using Windows XP or vista coz it will merely remove the fantastic user interface of the OS.

By: Azzy

Azzy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:36:40 +0000

Awesome job keep it UP!

By: nLite

nLite — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:41:11 +0000

Another super useful tip: Create your own XP SP3 Installation discs just like manufacturers do, that way you can start out with a system that doesn’t even need to be updated after installation, plus this program nlite gets into the details of what options make your computer faster vs. slower.

Have you ever wanted to remove Windows components like Media Player, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, MSN Explorer, Messenger…
How about not even to install them with Windows ?

nLite is a tool for pre-installation Windows configuration and component removal at your choice. Optional bootable image ready for burning on media or testing in virtual machines.
With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install does not include, or even contain on media, the unwanted components.

By: Nik Bagdon

Nik Bagdon — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:21:29 +0000

Nice article.

Re: fonts, I use Moon Software’s Shell Tools (freeware) to dynamically load the fonts I need. You can group your fonts into subfolders (eg Sans Serif, Banner, Handwriting), then use a tray icon to load and unload these groups on demand.

That way you don’t need to worry about deleting fonts.

See:
http://www.moonsoftware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=696

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:23:42 +0000

Hey great tutorial Askapache! I would also add that anyone using XP check out some of the tweaks over at http://www.blackviper.com/ and http://www.tweakxp.com/ to really get the most out of their machine. These are two other great resources with step-by-step instructions for newbies.