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Turn off redundant interfaces to optimize system performance

Because of its many superior features, Windows XP has become the preferred operating system for notebook users. It is compatible with a variety of external interfaces, and comes with drivers for standard interfaces such as USB1.1, IE
EE1394, PCMCIA. It has a big advantage.

But for many notebook users, especially for commercial purposes, there are many interfaces that are rarely used. In the case of the author, the most used Ethernet interface is rarely tested. Infrared interface, as far as the PCMCIA interface and 1394 interface are not used.

The "interface" we refer to is essentially a device. In order for these devices to work in the operating system
, you first need to load the driver, occupy system resources
, and secondly consume power. But if you don't need it, are these costs in vain? For a PC, the power consumption of several interfaces is negligible, but for a notebook it can save you.

To turn off devices that will not be used for a while, it is most convenient to operate in the device manager. Here we can "deactivate" the parallel port, serial port, floppy disk interface and 1394, which are not commonly used. Infrared interface and so on. Just a little bit, we can shield the sound card when we don't listen to the songs - this is not too much, the notebook is configured with AC`97 "soft" sound card that requires CPU service, and its resource occupancy rate is not counted when sounding. small.

To achieve the shutdown of some devices as described above, make adjustments in BiOS more thoroughly; but through the device manager to operate, one is simple and convenient when shutting down, the two need to be re-enabled More convenient, even restarting Windows is free.

Closing some unnecessary system services is also a common method of squeezing the last system performance. Some services are directly connected to the interface device, such as the Infrared Monitor and Smart Card used to display the infrared connection status. service. The former is used to display the status of the infrared device connection, and the latter is used to manage the smart card, so that some services actually do not have much practical effect. We can save the system resources by setting its startup property to "manual".

There are also services such as Messenger, RPC, and Remote Registry that are of little use, but are the most vulnerable, and are also set to "manual" mode early.