ThA_FiLeR Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 What are some ways of running xp on a slower computer, im talking about optimizing the speed, like "adjust for best performance" is there anything else that will speed it up?specs:AMD 550mhz224mb ramRegular ATi video cardThanx.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipp51 Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Right click on the start button choose properties,start menu,classic start menu and unselect as many enhancements as it takes to run the smoothest.Also right click on desktop and select properties,appearance,effects,and uncheck"use the following transition effect for menus and tooltips and beside the check for "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts",have standard selected.There are the shadow under menus which can be deselected also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechZ Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 i used to run xp on my old p3 450 w/128mb sd ram, ran pretty ok with a few effects and unnecessary services disabled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 I'm running my home web and FTP server on a p2 300 w/192mb sdram...I'm using the classic theme and it works fine...I could keep it on for months without having to shut it down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Some good tweaks:Disable System RestoreUse Classic Skin & Classic Start MenuGo to My Computer Properties > Advanced > Performace > adjust for best performance.Disable un-needed servicesIf you have a 2nd Hard Drive (not a 2nd partition on same disk) put your page file there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iemand14 Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 Look in your register, there you can change also a lot.Slo motion effects and stuff like that.Me father runs WinXP on a P2 400. And he is also a happy men.Do you try also a Tweak tool? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted October 22, 2003 Share Posted October 22, 2003 also internet explorer temp files, temp files, system restore filesget your hdd very fragmented so what I do is I decreased the ie temp files to 10mb and ie temps gets deleted when I close the browserand I've made a batch file which deletes the temp files at every boot/ login also recycle bin's space reserved tends to be slack space so you could decrease it. best you could do is classic themes and set the settings to performance instead of visual tweaking registry won't help too much but disabling services and startup program will help a lot also some programs like .net have way over too many files integrated in the registry you might want to install less programs and defrag your hdd oftenalso defrag your registry and search for unneccesary and invalid entries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThA_FiLeR Posted October 22, 2003 Author Share Posted October 22, 2003 will do..thanks guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gzduke5 Posted October 25, 2003 Share Posted October 25, 2003 you should try xp-lite, a software from litepc.com, the best for slow pc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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