Summary XP practical optimization skills big release

Long-term use of Windows XP's hibernation feature, you will find that the system will soon become unstable. At this time, it is best to press Ctrl+Alt+Del, click on the “process” tab in the pop-up "Windows Task Manager" window, find the Explorer.exe file, and then click "“ at the bottom of the window" to end the process. ” button, do not care about the reaction of Windows XP at this time. Then switch to the "Applications" tab and click the "New Tasks" button below. In the pop-up "Create new task" dialog box, enter: Explorer.exe, and then click the "OK" button.

Turning off "Fast switching" function

“ Fast switching & rdquo; is a very dazzling feature in Windows XP. If your computer's memory is less than 64MB, it will be automatically disabled during the installation of Windows XP, but for users with 96MB, 128MB, or even more memory, the system will automatically turn this feature on, if This feature is not very needed and can be considered to turn it off. Run the “User Accounts” option in the “Control Panel” menu, select “Change User Login or Logout Mode”, and uncheck “Use Fast User Switching” checkbox.

Turning off idle processes to improve performance

The benefit of doing this is that it works well when playing 3D games, and it's also useful. In the "Run" dialog box, type: Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll, ProcessIdleTasks, and then press Enter.

Solving the problem of slow Windows XP shutdown

Some users have noticed that the computer shutdown will become very slow after installing Windows XP. If you have an NVidia graphics card installed, you have to find it. Many times this is caused by a service called "NVIDIA Driver Helper Service". This service is generally not needed, and it takes up a lot of system resources. To close it, open “Control Panel”→“Administrative Tools”→"Service”, find and right click on the VIDIA Driver Helper Service item in the pop-up window, select “properties”, in In the Launched drop-down list box, select “Disabled”.

Turning off the indexing service to improve performance

In the "Running" command, type: msconfig, then select the "Services" tab, find the Indexing Service, and remove the previous tick. can. Or set it to “Startup Type” in the "Services" dialog box.

Shorten Windows XP boot time

Open “Registry Editor", find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control \\Session Manager\\Memory Management\\PrefetchParameters, which will be called EnablePrefetcher Change the value of the key value to 5 and restart the computer.

Speed ​​up user switching and network connection speed

Open “Registry Editor”, find [HEKY_LOCAL_MACHINE/OSOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Winlogon], create new string value KeepRasConnections , set its value to 1.

Speed ​​up the startup of some burning software

If you don't use Windows XP's burning function and choose other software, you can go to “Control Panel”→“Administrative Tools&rdquo ;→“Service", double-click IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service, set it to “disable", which will speed up the startup of some burning software.

Windows XP is the most widely used operating system. For this reason, Bookworm has integrated its experience of using Windows XP over the past few years into a serial package dedicated to everyone. The articles strive to be refined and practical. Today is the Windows XP optimization tips that everyone cares about. Due to the length of the article, we are divided into the upper, middle and lower parts. This is the third part.

Turning off useless performance counters

By default, Windows XP keeps running several performance counters, which are mainly used to monitor various hardware or services due to the recorded information for For ordinary users, it is useless, so it is recommended to turn it off. This will also improve the overall performance of the system. Here we are going to borrow the extended performance counter list tool provided by Microsoft (download address: http://download.microsoft.com/download /win2000platform/exctrlst/1.00.0.1/nt5/en-us/exctrlst_setup.exe), this The tool can list all the performance counters in the system and show whether they are loaded or closed. The method of closing is also very simple, just select a counter and then uncheck the check below.

Tips

If you cancel the performance counter, then the monitoring function in the "Performance" item in "Control Panel"→“Administrative Tools" Limited.