opie999

A lot of this is routine for the seasoned geeksters out there but it might be useful for the less tech savvy.

The Complete Guide To Optimising Windows XP | Connected Internet

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Jude

This is really good as well.

TweakHound's Super XP Tweaking Guide - Tweak & Optimize XP

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Simon

*must not get distracted, must not get distracted*

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hehe Simon... I started going through the list of things to do that Opie posted and eventually had to say the same thing to myself... "stop it Brad.. your pc works fine! Do some work!"

opie999

Lol! Yeah, it's pretty basic stuff. Haven't really looked at their forum. It might be more worth while.

The Tweakhound site actually looks a little more useful. I'll need to take some time to look at it more thoroughly.

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Jude

There's one more I can't remember. I'll recall and get the url here. lol

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thinking about websitegarage.com maybe?

(it seems to be offline right now)

Mastertech

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".

XP Myths

Jude

Welcome to NN MasterTech!

Are you sure switching off System Restore doesn't improve the performance? I've been a fan of switching it off for years!

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Mastertech

Of course. You will notice every place that recommends this does not provide documented, reproduceable evidence of any system performance improvements.

The only reason someone would want to do it would be for the disk space.