Comments on: 99 ways to make your computer blazingly fast http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-xp-tips/99-ways-to-make-your-computer-blazingly-fast/ Help Desk Geek is a blog for Discussions about help desk tips and how-to computer tips Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:30:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: drreamsburnred http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-xp-tips/99-ways-to-make-your-computer-blazingly-fast/comment-page-3/#comment-25071 drreamsburnred Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:39:51 +0000 http://helpdeskgeek.com/?p=1955#comment-25071 *100 format hard drive *101 install ubuntu *100 format hard drive
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]]> By: Beth http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-xp-tips/99-ways-to-make-your-computer-blazingly-fast/comment-page-3/#comment-24876 Beth Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:08:43 +0000 http://helpdeskgeek.com/?p=1955#comment-24876 Definitely the most comprehensive "Make Your Computer Faster" list I've seen so far. I bookmarked this. Definitely the most comprehensive “Make Your Computer Faster” list I’ve seen so far. I bookmarked this.

]]> By: stinky http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-xp-tips/99-ways-to-make-your-computer-blazingly-fast/comment-page-3/#comment-24865 stinky Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:00:07 +0000 http://helpdeskgeek.com/?p=1955#comment-24865 lots of good tips lots of bad ones as well... registry cleaners often do more harm than good. theyre just programs and dont have the human judgement as to whether to remove a key or not. they often use the date of last access as to decide whether to remove a key or not. if you know what you are doing its much better to do it by hand... though considering the number of entries in the registry... good luck fully cleaning it out lol. still a good thing to do though. bootvis has had a lot more benefits attributed to it than it actually grants. it can optimize boot time quickly initially but doesnt help much after that. prefetch... ill leave that alone everybody has complained about that tip enough :P the max connections per server is a VERY VERY good tip. i have a netbook that used to have very slow internet and can now easily stream video with a low connection strength on wireless g. working on services is hit and miss. most run in the background and dont use up much memory anyway and are more good than bad. but there are several memory hogs that arent really justified *coughindexingcough* if you have enough ram using largesystemcache can be good. once again hit and miss, it can be WORSE for some programs. for secondary ide channels in the device manager in the same menus where you enable dma, you have an option above about looking for ide devices. if you dont use ide devices a lot switch it to "none". you will of course have to enable it if you DO want to run an ide device. this can speed boot time slightly. in bios you can do 2 things even in a very basic bios like phoenix trustedcore... sigh... unfortunately i have that one... you can enable it to boot quickly and skip some basic tests. and you can also change the order of devices to boot from. normally it searches for external drives to boot from first. unless youre upgrading your bios from said external drives during this boot youre wasting time checking. speed up the boot by booting from your hard drive first. also for the virtual memory... well its not really virtual memory to be splitting hairs here. virtual memory is the memory that is made up of your physical memory AND your paging memory. what youre altering here is paging memory. yes good advice set it to the same size or windows will constantly resize it. adding to that its good to put your paging memory on a separate hard drive if youve got 2 or a separate partition. lots of good tips lots of bad ones as well…
registry cleaners often do more harm than good. theyre just programs and dont have the human judgement as to whether to remove a key or not. they often use the date of last access as to decide whether to remove a key or not. if you know what you are doing its much better to do it by hand… though considering the number of entries in the registry… good luck fully cleaning it out lol. still a good thing to do though.

bootvis has had a lot more benefits attributed to it than it actually grants. it can optimize boot time quickly initially but doesnt help much after that.

prefetch… ill leave that alone everybody has complained about that tip enough :P

the max connections per server is a VERY VERY good tip. i have a netbook that used to have very slow internet and can now easily stream video with a low connection strength on wireless g.

working on services is hit and miss. most run in the background and dont use up much memory anyway and are more good than bad. but there are several memory hogs that arent really justified *coughindexingcough*

if you have enough ram using largesystemcache can be good. once again hit and miss, it can be WORSE for some programs.

for secondary ide channels in the device manager in the same menus where you enable dma, you have an option above about looking for ide devices. if you dont use ide devices a lot switch it to “none”. you will of course have to enable it if you DO want to run an ide device. this can speed boot time slightly.

in bios you can do 2 things even in a very basic bios like phoenix trustedcore… sigh… unfortunately i have that one… you can enable it to boot quickly and skip some basic tests. and you can also change the order of devices to boot from. normally it searches for external drives to boot from first. unless youre upgrading your bios from said external drives during this boot youre wasting time checking. speed up the boot by booting from your hard drive first.

also for the virtual memory… well its not really virtual memory to be splitting hairs here. virtual memory is the memory that is made up of your physical memory AND your paging memory. what youre altering here is paging memory. yes good advice set it to the same size or windows will constantly resize it. adding to that its good to put your paging memory on a separate hard drive if youve got 2 or a separate partition.

]]> By: Vsaket http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-xp-tips/99-ways-to-make-your-computer-blazingly-fast/comment-page-3/#comment-24703 Vsaket Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:54:27 +0000 http://helpdeskgeek.com/?p=1955#comment-24703 Thanks for the post. I am not too much into tech but face the problem of a slow computer. This will be helpful. Regards Saket Thanks for the post. I am not too much into tech but face the problem of a slow computer. This will be helpful.

Regards
Saket

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