How To Speed Up Your Slow WindowsXP PC

     Hello,KidGuru here todays tutorial will show you how to speed up your Windows XP  PC preformance from a slow pc to a fast efficent PC.

1. Use MSCONFIG - Disable Services and Star-ups= Start Menu > Run>Msconfig>Service/Start-up Tab/ Disable uneeded services and start ups.

NOTE: Be Careful When Tampering with MSCONFIG

A list of Services that are safe to be unchecked 

The following lists services you can probably do without. Of course, if you recognize one that you use such as Windows Messenger or Telnet, don’t turn it off.

Alerter
Clipbook
Computer Browser
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Error Reporting Service (if you don’t want to be asked to send error reports to Microsoft anymore)
Fast User Switching
Human Interface Access Devices
IPSEC Services
Messenger
NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing
Portable Media Serial Number
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager
Remote Procedure Call Locator
Remote Registry
Routing & Remote Access
Secondary Logon
Server
SSDP Discovery Service
Telnet
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Upload Manager
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
Workstation

Pick one from the list and double-click it. You’ll see a drop-down menu next to “Startup type” that is currently set to Automatic.

Change it to Manual and click OK. This way the service will start only if it’s needed, not all the time.

Uncheck Start-Up Programs that you don't need at start-up

2. Open Programs Quicker with Prefetch- Right Click a Program >Properties> Target Box > At the end of the Link for exp.  "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" > Hit Space and add the code /Prefetch:1 

it should look something like this = "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" /prefetch:1  this should speed up program opening by prefetching the program.

3.  Remove Uneeded Programs- Add/Remove Programs> Remove Uneeded> Also click windows components > uncheck uneeded components like "MSN Explorer"

4.  A Small but Classic Tip to improve speed- Switch to  Classic View  by  not using a fancy theme windows will have less memory used up and easier to access stuff = Right Click Desktop > Properties> Themes Tab (Already there by default) > Switch Theme to Windows Classic to get a extra space on your cpu usage.

5. Run Virus Scanner /Get a Virus Scanner- Getting rid of small or big viruses as well as spam malware or whatever will increase greatly the preformance of you PC and will make it safer and more efficent to use

I reccomend any of these scanners AVG =http://free.grisoft.com/ - Free or if you want to Pay pro version

Sygate Personal Firewall-  http://www.download.com/3000-2092_4-10637565.html

ClamWin-  http://www.clamwin.com/

also search up - Antivirus,Peer Guardian (for P2P networks Exp= Limewire,360 share,frostwire etc)

6.   Reg The Edit- Reg Edit or Registry Editor has alot of useful tips to speed up your PC heres a couple

How to get to it Start Menut> Run>Reg edit

 NOTE: DON'T TAMPER WITH OTHER THINGS IN REGEDIT AS IT CAN EFFECT YOUR PC

 Speed Up Shutdown - 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

Change the value of ClearPageFileAtShutdown to 0. Close the Registry, and restart your computer. Whenever you turn off XP from now on, the paging file won't be cleared, and you should be able to shut down more quickly.

 Speed Up IE Browser-HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Internet Settings

Look for MaxConnectionsPerServer

If not there right click add new D-Word Value  enter MaxConnectionsPerServer then right click modify and select Decimal and set it to 10.

 Speed Up Menu Delay-

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Control Panel
• Click “Desktop.”� A list of entries will appear on the right side.
• Double-click “MenuShowDelay”� and change the Value data to 0
• Restat PC to See difference

7. Delete Temp Files- The Temporary files that are saved on your computer pile up and take alot of space to access these and delete them simpily 

 Start Menu> Run> %Temp%> Delete all of it's contents  = Yes it's safe there only temporary files that sometimes delete at shutdown or restart but not all is gone so double check and delete daily.

8. Speed up Windows Explorer- For Folder Searching  theres sometimes a delay cause of network and printer searching this is how to disable it 

Control Panel> Folder Options>  Views Tab> uncheck automatically search for network folders and printers

9.  Optomize your Windows XP Settings for Best Preformance-  Go to 

Control Panel>System> Advanced Tab >Preformance Settings >Check Adjust for Best preformance> This will undo some minor graphic features but if your not satisfied you can leave these ones on and manually uncheck the rest 

You can leave these on if your not satisifed with graphics features and still have good preformance

• Show shadows under menus
• Show shadows under mouse pointer
• Show translucent selection rectangle
• Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
• Use visual styles on windows and buttons