Making Windows XP and Vista Go Faster

[msfntor]

Making Windows XP and Vista Go Faster

This chapter is from the book

"Speed It Up! A Non-Technical Guide for Speeding Up Slow Computers"

On informit.com: https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1329140&seqNum=2

[j7n]

I've never heard that WinXP was particularly prone to memory leaks. Unless the author takes the word "program" liberally and includes installed drivers, programs are actually unloaded when they are closed. I have noticed that browsing the file systems gets slow after weeks of uptime.

I don't believe entries in system.ini have an effect on WinXP. They are for Win98. Does it work?

The time when 256 MB was a lot of memory...