How to make Windows XP more Responsive

[ccb056]

So, you installed Microsoft's Windows XP a few months ago and noticed that things have become sluggish ever since. Well, here is a guide to help you speed up your Windows XP install. The best thing you can do is reformat your drive and follow this guide on a clean slate, but if that isn't possible then just follow these steps.

1. Get rid of those XP styles. Not only do these slow down your system by taking up much needed memory, they also take up more pixels on the screen. To get rid of the XP styles, right-click your desktop and go into "Properties", once in "Properties" change the theme to "Windows Classic"

2. Now go into the "Appearance" tab, and click the "Effects" button, uncheck everything in the "Effects" button, these options slow down the rendering of Windows on XP.

3. Right-Click on "My Computer" and go into "Properties", go into the "Advanced" tab, click "Settings" for "Performance", select "Adjust for best performance".

4. Click "Settings" for "Startup and Recovery", and uncheck "Write an event to the system log", "Send an administrative alert", "Automatically restart" and "Write debugging information" to "none"

5. Click "Error Reporting" and select "Disable error reporting", uncheck "But notify me when critical errors occur"

6. Go to the "System Restore" tab and check "Turn off System Restore"

7. Go to the "Automatic Updates" tab and uncheck "Keep my computer up to date..."

8. Go into the "Hardware" tab and click "Device Manager", go into the "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" section and make sure than DMA is enabled on all channels

9. Right-click the "Start Menu" and go into "Properties", change the default start menu to "Classic Start menu"

10. Go into "Start Menu"-"Settings"-"Control Panel"-and "Switch to Classic View"

11. Go into "Network Connections" and right click your connection, click properties, uninstall the "QOS Packet Scheduler Service"

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Open the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE)

Rename the following registry entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\Software
\Microsoft
\Windows
\CurrentVersion
\Explorer
\RemoteComputer
\Namespace
\{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

For example, you can rename it to:

DISABLED {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

create a file called "fix.reg" on the deskton
copy this into the file

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters]
"SizReqBuf"=dword:0000ffff 

save the file and double click

this will patch the registry and speed up the time it takes to browse files on your LAN

[Smartweb]

I personally like some of the mouse effects that come with Xp and 2000. Also, you shouldn't turn off updates.

[Tebow2000]

r u kidding me... Windows update is what I live for.. I dont have time togo to tWindows Updates lol

[Eric Bland]

Thanks for the tips, XP is a ram memory hog. Website Designs

[ilie]

ccb056 , why don't u tell us what those registry modifications do before their value is changed

[Xitech]

it obviously shits off remote desktop. dont worry, im pretty sure hes not trying to hack your computer.

[CrashCore]

r u kidding me... Windows update is what I live for.. I dont have time togo to tWindows Updates lol

Why would you ever download Micro$oft's bull "updates"? "Downloading another worthless 20mb file..."

[vikash]

You know, I was like that once, reinstalling XP over and over and wondering why does it get so slow over time. But I've discovered that all you need to do is to compact and defragment the registry and it flies again. No amount of disabling services will give you such a performance increase if you've got a well-established system. There are plenty of programs that do that. I personally use System Mechanic. There might even be a Windowz internal program that does it, I don't know. This is my experience only, of course, but you're welcome to give it a try and tell me what you think.

[rav0]

Rename the following registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \RemoteComputer \Namespace \{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

What does this do?

create a file called "fix.reg" on the deskton copy this into the file

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[/i]Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters]
"SizReqBuf"=dword:0000ffff 

save the file and double click this will patch the registry and speed up the time it takes to browse files on your LAN

What network setting does this change? PS I don't not trust you and think that you're trying to screw me around. However, even though all of the above recomendations made sense and I was aware of their effect, but I still didn't follow all of them, because I am willing to sacrifice the speed that those things take. I want to know what these two tweaks do, because I simply might not want to apply them .