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rvices You Can Disable

ere are quite a few services you can disable from starting automatically.

s would be to speed up your boot time and free resources.

ey are only suggestions so I suggestion you read the description of each one when you run Services

d that you turn them off one at a time.

me possibilities are:

rter plication Management

pbook

t UserSwitching

man Interface Devices

exing Service

ssenger

t Logon

tMeeting

S RSVP

mote Desktop Help Session Manager

mote Registry

uting & Remote AccessDP Discovery Service

iversal Plug and Play Device Host

b Client

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aning the Prefetch Directory

ndowsXP has a new feature called Prefetch. This keeps a shortcut to recently used programs.

wever it can fill up with old and obsolete programs.

clean this periodically go to:

r / Run / Prefetch

ss Ctrl-A to highlight all the shorcuts

ete them

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t Displaying Logon, Logoff, Startup and Shutdown Status Messages

turn these off:

rt Regedit

to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionpoliciessystem

t is not already there, create a DWORD value named DisableStatusMessages

ve it a value of 1

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aring the Page File on Shutdown

ck on the Start button

to the Control Panel

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ministrative Tools

cal Security Policy

cal Policies

ck on Security Options

ht hand menu - right click on "Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile"

ect "Enable"

boot

regedit users.....

ou want to clear the page file on each shutdown:

rt Regedit

to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory ManagementClearPageFileAtShu

the value to 1

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GUI Boot

ou don't need to see the XP boot logo,

n MSCONFIGck on the BOOT.INI tab

eck the box for /NOGUIBOOT

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eeding the Startup of Some CD Burner Programs

ou use program other than the native WindowsXP CD Burner software,

u might be able to increase the speed that it loads.

to Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Services

uble-click on IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service

the Startup Type, select Disabledck on the OK button and then close the Services window

ou dont You should notice

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tting Rid of Unread Email Messages

remove the Unread Email message by user's login names:

rt Regedit

a single user: Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUnreadMail

all users: Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUnreadMailate a DWORD key called MessageExpiryDays

ve it a value of 0

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creasing Boot Time

crosoft has made available a program to analyze and decrease the time it takes to boot to WindowsXP

e program is called BootVis





compress the file.

n BOOTVIS.EXE

a starting point, run Trace / Next Boot + Driver Delays

s will reboot your computer and provide a benchmark

er the reboot, BootVis will take a minute or two to show graphs of your system startup.

te how much time it takes for your system to load (click on the red vertical line)

en run Trace / Optimize System

Run the Next Boot + Drive Delays

te how much the time has decreased

ne went from approximately 33 to 25 seconds.

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reasing Graphics Performance

default, WindowsXP turns on a lot of shadows, fades, slides etc to menu items.

st simply slow down their display.

turn these off selectively:

ht click on the My Computer icon

ect Properties

ck on the Advanced tabder Performance, click on the Settings button

turn them all of, select Adjust for best performance

preference is to leave them all off except for Show shadows under mouse pointer and Show window contents while dragging

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reasing System Performance

ou have 512 megs or more of memory, you can increase system performance

having the core system kept in memory.

rt Regeditto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory ManagementDisablePagingExec

the value to be 1

boot the computer

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reasing File System Caching

increase the amount of memory Windows will locked for I/O operations:

rt Regedit

to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory Managementt the key IoPageLockLimit

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solving Inability to Add or Remove Programs

particular user cannot add or remove programs, there might be a simple registry edit neeed.

to HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesUninstall

ange the DWORD NoAddRemovePrograms to 0 disable it





96 - 32megs of memory or less

92 - 32+ megs of memory





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