Good Tweaks

[Andrew Talbot]

Does anyone know of any good tweaks to speed up Internet Explorer & my NTFS
file system? Using 2.6 AMD Athlon, 512 ram 120gb hard drive. It's already
pretty fast but not fast enough.
TIA

 

[Unknown]

How much is 'pretty fast'?

 

[Andrew Talbot]

Faster than a Rabbit but slower than a Cheater.

How much is 'pretty fast'?

 

[JeffO]

Run CHKDSK /R on every hard drive.
Defragment.
Delete all Windows Temp files, Internet Temp files,
stranded document temp files (~*.*, *.tmp).
Find a good registry cleaner and run it. (I haven't tested
any with XP, yet.)
Run Spybot and use the "Immunize" feature to block the
marketing stuff. Really helps the web pages load faster.
Get rid of startup items you don't use. Many application
installers think their product is the most important one
on your machine, so it runs in the background even though
you only use it once a month. It's usually good to take
these things out.
There are also updaters that tick away like a timebomb and
then hijcak you to go to their website for updates. Real
does it, Adobe, Internet Explorer, etc. There are various
ways to turn things things off, but there isn't room to
cover them in this post.

 

[Guest]

Try Spy bot download free at http://www.safer-networking.org/. this is a great program. Insure that you use the advanced also free and try running and cleaning your system. I reduced the amount of "stuff" at start up...lots of good things here and worth a donation in my opinion.

Good Luck

Wayne

 

[cquirke (MVP Win9x)]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:56:09 -0800, BlueGeek9

If you really want to tweak your system, i will give you some tips that
should make the system boot quickier than you thought possible.

And run quicker too (some of these help more with runtime than boot)

1. Turning off the pretty GUI(Graphical User Interface) of XP.

Yep. If I wanted a slowly-drooling UI, I'd have stuck to unaccelreted
ISA16 SlowVGA display cards.

2. Getting rid of spyware.

Yep - and traditional malware too, come to that.

3. Limiting the amount of programs that start when windows boots
typr in the run bar msconfig, some programs do need to be loaded
at startup, depending on what you have installed

That useful as a quick look-see, but often not the best way to
suppress what you've found (as many offenders will re-assert
themselves when run electively). Look for a Tools, Options or an
Edit, Preferences within the app itself to stop that.

Another better solution is to goto www.blackviper.com and look
at what he says about services and start-up

4. Defrag (or better yet, if you have norton systemworks, run disk proformance)

5. Shrink the crazy web cache that IE allocates for itself - and
which is duplicated for each user account. How many months of web
browsing through a slow connection does it take to populate a 500M web
cache? And does a connection that's fast enough to populate a 500M
web cache in a week need to be cached to speed it up?

Now imagine the fragmentation effect that, say, 6 user accounts each
with a 500M cache will have on the system. All those tiny files
expiring and being deleted months later... swiss cheese, anyone?

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