Windows XP Tweaks

Are you experiencing icon lag, while browsing thru all your Start icons and programs? Do you have a smaller menu delay and your icons need ages to load? No need to give up.

Insert your windows XP disc into your PC. Click exit if your installation screen comes up. Now go too your CD drive in *My Computer*.

To view the amount of time that XP has been running with out rebooting or restarting the computer:

Type msconfig in run and then go to the startup tab here you can select which programs you want enabling and which you want to be disabled from starting up.

On some XP Pro installations, when connected to a network (peer-peer in this case), the computer boot time is over 1:40. The system seems to freeze after logging in and the desktop may not appear or will freeze for a minute.

Its understood that most users or computer literit users decide they want fancy desktops windows, cool fades and colors. But if youve changed your mind and want better peformance try this!

Windows Explorer caches DLLs (Dynamic-Link Libraries) in memory for a period of time after the application using them has been closed. This can be an inefficient use of memory.

By default, Windows XP keeps a backup of system files in the System Volume Information folder.

Windows XP keeps a record of all files on the hard disk so when you do a search on the hard drive it is faster.

A Handy utility for speeding up system performance in Windows XP (or any version of Win9x/me for that matter as well) is the System Configuration Utility. To access the system configuration utility, go to Start and click Run.