Windows XP is called by Microsoft the best operating system in its history. It has a variety of features that are dazzling, and faster. Of course, all of this puts higher demands on the hardware of the computer. If we want Windows XP to do our best. It may take up less of our limited system resources, and may wish to perform a "small surgery" on its own needs. Although Windows XP is claimed by Microsoft as the most stable and powerful Windows operating system ever, and it runs fast, the startup speed is even faster than the same configuration of Windows 2000. We may still be dissatisfied with this and hope to let XP to play its best performance, or our hardware configuration is not too high, want to make Windows XP run more smoothly, the following will be a detailed introduction to some settings that can improve the efficiency of the system, I hope that friends who have installed Windows XP can Helpful. First, use the plain interface
XP default interface after the installation includes the taskbar, start menu, desktop background, windows and buttons are all using XP's luxurious, dazzling style, but the shortcomings are obvious they will consume a lot of systems Resources, but practical significance is not great. Method: Right click on the blank space of the desktop, click “Properties” in the pop-up menu to enter the display property setting window, set “Theme and Appearance” to “Windows Classic” (Figure 1), and set the desktop background to “None”. Press OK to save and exit. Second, reduce the loading of the project at startup
Many applications will add their own claims to the system startup group during installation, each time the system will automatically run, which not only extends the startup time, but also the system resources have been eaten after the startup is completed. Quite a lot. Method: Select "Run" of the "Start" menu, type "msconfig" to start "System Configuration Utility", enter the "Startup" tab, in this window lists the items and sources loaded at system startup, and carefully check if we need It is automatically loaded, otherwise the check box before the item is cleared. The less the item is loaded, the faster the startup speed is. This item needs to be activated by the authority. Third, optimize the visual effects
Method: Select the "Advanced" tab in the "System" to enter the "Performance Options" interface (Figure 2), which can be selected among the visual effects: automatically set to the best, best appearance , best performance, custom. The more effects you select, the more system resources you use. Selecting the Best Performance item will turn off all visual effects such as fades, smooth scrolls, and slide openes listed in the list. Method: The file will be saved in the burning temporary folder of the C drive before burning, enter the resource manager, select the drive letter and click the “Properties” item of the right mouse button menu. Under the “Record” tab, you can make this temporary. The folder is placed on another drive. The so-called DMA, that is, the direct memory storage mode, refers to the computer peripheral device (mainly refers to the hard disk) can directly exchange data with the memory, which can speed up the hard disk read and write speed and improve the data transmission speed. Method: Select the "Hardware" tab in "System Properties" to open the "Device Manager", where "IDE Controller" has two "Primary IDE Channel" and "Secondary IDE Channel", and then enter "Properties - Advanced Settings" The dialog box lists the transfer mode of the device currently connected to the IDE interface. Click the list button to set the Transfer Mode to DMA (if available). 3, my document Method: Right click on "My Documents", in the property settings, you can change the default save path of "My Documents" to other drive letters. Fourth, increase the virtual memory
Method: Enter the "Advanced" settings window of the "Performance Options", first adjust the "Processor Plan" and "Memory Usage" to the "Program" optimization mode, click the "Change" button to enter the virtual Memory settings window, if our memory is greater than 256M, you can disable paging files. The default paging file is 1.5 times the physical memory. To disable the system cache, you need to restart the system. If our memory is lower than 256M, please do not disable the paging file. Otherwise, the system may crash or you can no longer start XP! In addition to the CPU and hard drive, XP runs very well depending on the memory, given the current price of memory has been reduced. I strongly recommend that you upgrade your memory to more than 256M (preferably 512M) so that you can experience the charm of XP more.