Increase Windows XP Performance
by Terabai
Computer is part and parcel of the worlds today. We use it for entertainment, work and personal needs and for business. Thus the performance of the computer is essential for every user. Although there are a lot of Windows’ versions but here are some tips to increase your Windows XP performance.
Firstly you have to make sure that your windows are using NTFS concept. So how do you check what kind of system are you windows using? You just have to go to My Computer, right click on Drive C and then choose Properties. Then you can see what system you windows are using. If your windows are using FAT32, then you should change it to NTFS. The main reason for this is that NTFS are more secured and trusted plus it is more efficient with large hard disk drive. Changing the format is easy. You have to create backup for important data on your computer. After that, go to Start Menu, and click Run. Type CMD on the Run Menu and click Ok. You will be brought to a DOS program. There you just type C:/FS:NTFS. It will convert your windows system from FAT32 to NTFS.
After converting Windows System, check as well whether the system are using the options Indexing File as well. You can check it by going to your Properties of your C Drive. At the bottom of the properties, you can see two check box and they are Compress This Drive To Save Disk and Index This Drive For Faster Searching. Uncheck both to increase you Windows performance. Checking the box is good in a way that it increase the performance upon searching files and folders on your computer. But it reduces your memory capacity and in the end making your computer slower.
This is another thing that could make your computer load slower. You have to empty your Windows Prefetch Folder. You have to empty this folder every three month at least. Prefetch Folder is a storage for data and applications that are being use regularly. It can make those regular data or folder to load fast. But from time to time, this folder will be full of data and applications that you do not used anymore. This will affect your Windows XP loading time and the performance will be affected because the reference folder has to be loaded as well. So it must be emptied for at least every three month. For your information, the content of the folder are not critical. You can find the folder at C:windowsprefetch.
Have you ever wondered sometimes why you have to wait for a long time to load your computers? It might be due to your startup program. Your computer has to load a lot of programs for example like MP3 programs, antivirus programs and a lot more. This makes the start up loading time to increase. You have to get rid of the program that is not needed upon starting Windows. To overcome this all you have to do is uncheck any program that is not needed. Do not worry as this does not do any uninstalling operation. It only disable the program to start along when Windows are start up. The way for you to do this is by going to the Start Menu and then go to Run. Type in MSCONFIG and you will be brought to System Configuration. Go to Startup and just uncheck which software or program of which is of not important for Windows Start Up.
Those are a few things that you can do to increase the performance of your computer. There are a lot of other things that you can do, but it would be more technical and best if you just send your computer to a computer technician. I would suggest for you to find a friends who really have the knowledge on computer.
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