Easy to learn Windows XP system optimization top ten tips

1. Cancel the waiting time before the disk scan When using Windows XP, if you encounter a power outage, a crash, etc., Windows XP will automatically perform a disk scan after restarting the computer. Before performing a disk scan, the system will give a 10-second countdown time for you to choose whether to skip the disk scan. If you don't want the countdown before the disk scan, you can cancel it. Select “Start/All Programs/Accessories/Command Prompt" in the Command Prompt window, press the key "CHKNTFS/T:0”" and press Enter to change the countdown time before the automatic disk scan to 0 seconds. .

2, delete the file backup into the "Windows /System32 /dll /cache" directory (the default is hidden directory), which stores about 360MB files, they are Windows XP system files Backup, the folder can not be deleted directly, you must enter the "sfc.exe/purgecache" in the command prompt (there is a space before the slash) command to delete.

3, delete the driver backup Windows XP comes with a large number of hardware drivers, Windows /Driver /Cachei386 & rdquo; directory, find a compressed file named "Driver.cab", delete Just fine.

4, delete the unused input method under Windows XP There are several input methods that we basically do not need, such as Japanese, Korean input method. To delete it, go to “Control Panel Date, Time, Language and Regional Settings Area and Language Selection", select the "Language" tab, and remove the hook in front of the East Asian Language Installation File” “OK” Follow the prompts to remove unwanted language options. After restarting, delete the “chtime”,“imju8_1”,“imk6_1” three folders (for traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) directly in the “Windows/ime” folder, which will release 85MB. Hard disk space

5, clear the system temporary file in the "Document/sand/Settings user name Local/Settings/Temp"; (the default is hidden directory) is stored software installation goods Temporary folders and obsolete documents left at runtime, which can free up hundreds of megabytes of hard disk space. This method can be used frequently.

6, in the Windows XP appears taskbar "fake death" phenomenon is more common, in addition to the installation of Microsoft's official patch to solve the problem, you can also close the advanced text service, To prevent the phenomenon of "fake death" in the taskbar (because the advanced text service is enabled, it will consume a lot of system resources, and may also conflict with some software, such as handwriting recognition, Chinese keyboard input, etc.), the specific method is as follows:

Open the "Regional and Language Options" window, select the "Language" tab, click the "Details" button to open the "Text Service and Input Language" window . Then, click the “Language Bar” button, in the pop-up window, directly select the “Close Advanced Text Service” option, click the “OK” button, a confirmation window will pop up, click “&ldquo” ; is the ” button, you can disable the advanced text service, and finally & ldquo; OK & rdquo; exit.

7. Every time you start Windows XP, the blue scroll bar will tirelessly walk a few laps. For those who pursue high efficiency, do you really want it to be less? How many laps? In fact, we can completely reduce its scrolling time to speed up the startup. To do this, open the Registry Editor, expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_SYSTEM_CurrentControlSet_Control_SessionManager_Memor

yManagement_PrefetchParameters branch, find the EnablePrefetcher subkey in the middle window, and change its default value “3” to &ldquo ;1”.

Next, right click on the desktop and click "My Computer", select the "Properties" command, and select the "Hardware" option in the window that opens. Card, click the <;Device Manager" button. In the “Device Manager” window, expand “IDEATA/ATAP Controller”, double-click the “Secondary IDE Channel” option, and select ““Advanced” tab in the pop-up dialog box, at “ In the device type & rdquo; in the device  quo;, the original "automatic detection" is changed to "no", "no" and then "quit". “ The main IDE channel & rdquo; modification method is consistent. Now restart your computer and see if your scroll bar scrolling time is reduced?

Note: Friends who use VIA chip motherboards must not modify the "VIABUSMASTERIDECONTROLLER" option.

Alternatively, if you have not chosen to create multiple different hardware profiles, or if you want to automatically load the default hardware profile during startup without displaying the list items, then you can "hardware" In the profile selection “ in the "second" seconds, enter “0” Pressing the space bar while you need to select will display the list.

8. When Windows XP Network Neighborhood is used, the system will first search for its own shared directory and can be used as a network share. The printers and scheduled tasks related to the network in the scheduled tasks are then displayed, which directly affects the speed of the computer. If it is not necessary, it should be deleted.

The specific steps are as follows: In the Registry Editor, find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_sofeware_Microsoft_Windows_CurrentVersion_Explorer_Remote

Computer_NameSpace, delete the (printer) and (planned tasks) And then restart the computer, when you visit Network Neighborhood again, I found that the running speed has increased.

9. When shutting down in Windows XP, the system always sends a message to the running program and the remote server, notifying them that the system should be shut down, and waiting for the system to start shutting down after receiving the response. If we want to speed up the boot, we can first set the time to automatically end the task.

To do this, open the Registry Editor, expand the HKEY_CURRENT_USER_ControlPanel_Desktop branch, find the AutoEndTasks subkey, and set it to 1. Then set the "HungAppTimeout” subkey under the branch to “1000”, and <;WaitTOKillService” to “1000” (default is 5000). By resetting this way, the computer's shutdown speed can be significantly accelerated.

10, everyone knows that the professional version of Windows XP retains 20% of the bandwidth by default, in fact, this does not have much effect for our individual users. Instead of being idle, use it as follows: Enter gpedit.msc in "start →run" to open the Group Policy Editor. Find & ldquo; Computer Configuration & Rarr; Management Template & Rarr; Network & Rarr; QoS Packet Scheduler & rdquo;, select the right side of the "restricted bandwidth can be reserved", select "properties" & rdquo; open the limit can retain the bandwidth properties dialog box, select “Disable” After this reset, you can release the reserved 20% of the bandwidth.