Comments on: Ten Steps To Speed Up Windows XP

By: J.BB

J.BB — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:25:23 +0000

I finally bought myself a proper registry cleaner,( approved by windows) because i was worried that some other programs might be leaving bits and pieces in the registry even after i had gotten rid of the program. This drastically slows down a PC. I now just run PC tuneup maestro ( http://compuclever.com/products/pc-tuneup-maestro/ ) and it gets rid of the stuff i dont have time to search through and delete. Its almost impossible to do it yourself anyways because of the confusing file names and the 100′s you have to deal with sometimes. Anyways its kept my computer fast and efficient.
thanks for the post

By: Doodie

Doodie — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:36:43 +0000

Here is a program which lets you start less importand startup-programs later in the background.
It puts all the startup programs in a cue and you can set a delay time for each of them.

I tested it on my Vista and it seems to work (but its still a beta)

http://www.tools.toflo.de/RunDelayed/

By: Hauser Abbott

Hauser Abbott — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:50:23 +0000

I would have added to scan for spyware, and to get an antivirus program
that does not use a lot of resources in the background.

By: Paul Bradish

Paul Bradish — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:54:17 +0000

Very useful article. I had absolutely no idea about step #9. Thanks for sharing!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:50:06 +0000

The Prefetch information is a Myth. Windows does not load or cache any application at startup for prefetching. Cleaning the folder is a Myth:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html

By: Ken Savage

Ken Savage — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:04:32 +0000

NTFS leaves 10% of the disk unallocated and reserved for system use. You can see this with Diskeeper. It used to show up (on older versions of DK) as “free space”, but now it’s marked as “system space” and will not be written to.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:10:04 +0000

My name is Chris and I work at Help.com. I came across you blog and since you are writing about the startup process, I hoped you could help answer a question that came to me from a Help.com site user. They ask:
“Why does my 1 gig of ram become 700 megs on startup?” If you think you can help answer this question, I would appreciate it.

By: Daniel Reilly

Daniel Reilly — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 04:29:16 +0000

This is a really cool and useful post. I read thru and tried a few of the steps- thanks
Check my blog -you may find something interesting or not?