Four tricks to make the XP system more superior

Every time you run a program, open multiple windows, you will find that the computer is going to read and write the hard disk madly, sometimes even the shutdown program is unbearable, even if you have More than 64M of memory. At this time, you should optimize your system.

First, remove the "junk" daemon in the taskbar

First look at the availability of your system's current resources: My Computer -> Control Panel -> System, select performance By "system resources" you can see the current usage of your system. Just boot, before running any program, this percentage is more than 90% to show that your system optimization is quite good, not occupied by some background garbage programs.

If you have a machine that is less than 50%, then your system resources are wasted. Open a few more windows, run a few programs, your system will enter and unstable state, it will take course to crash and automatically restart.

Although there are many system optimization software that can automatically optimize the system, it generally requires direct operation of the registry, which inevitably has certain risks, and the system can no longer be started! If you want to learn something, let's do it yourself.

First look at the taskbar at the bottom right of the screen,

There are several background tasks that are consuming system resources, and many of these programs are used less.

RealPlayer's StartCenter, Winamp Agent, Super Solution's automatic diagnostics and other background programs, although claiming to speed up the startup speed of their own programs, and provide automatic monitoring of open file related functions, but the actual use and Not significant, but it takes up a lot of system resources. It is recommended to keep only some of the necessary background programs, such as firewalls, anti-virus walls, and so on.

How do I close some programs that are started and not needed? First look at: Start -> Program -> Start, the things inside can basically be deleted, especially like some "Office Start", "File Search" and other special resources. Unless you want to run a program when the machine is started.

Many of the daemons in the taskbar are not started this way. To delete them, the registry is processed. The registry is an important place for the Windows system series to store system hardware and software configuration information. Improper operation can lead to catastrophic consequences. Fortunately, Windows itself provides an application that can perform safe operations on the project involved in startup, which is the "system configuration application." It can be started by: Start->Run, enter "msconfig", OK.

It can be seen that there are six tabs "General", "Config.sys", "Autoexec.bat", "System.ini", "Win.ini" and "Start". The three tags that we are going to cover are "Config.sys", "Autoexec.bat", and "Startup". In fact, the items in Config.sys and Autoexec.bat can be unchecked, that is, all the hooks are removed.

Go to the "Startup" tab, where you can remove the checkmark from the front of the project that is not relevant to normal operation. After confirmation, a reboot is required to take effect. Restart, and then look at the available resources of the system, is there a big change!

Of course, some special background programs can't be handled by this method. For example, RealPlayer's StartCenter, although you can remove the selection in the "Startup" tab, but will automatically join a row after restarting. To get rid of it, you need to configure it in its running program.
Second, improve the performance of the file system

Set the machine file system as a network server, which can make Windows use more memory for disk read-ahead (including CD). But Windows does not take up the memory required by its applications, but automatically adapts to the memory needs of various applications.

Here's how: My Computer -> Control Panel -> System, select the Performance tab and click the File System button, select Netowrk Sever from the drop-down list. Then confirm. After the restart, the setting will take effect.

Third, open the file system DMA mode

This feature is for the hard disk and optical drive direct memory access (DMA, Direct Memory Access abbreviation) to maximize system performance, because now The biggest bottleneck of a personal computer is on the input and output of the disk. DMA allows the PC to directly access the data on the hard drive, but does not take up too much CPU time (compared to PIO mode), so that your CPU can perform other tasks,

The specific approach is as follows: My Computer -> Control Panel -> System, select the "Device Manager" tab, expand the hard disk controller or CDROM item, select the corresponding drive device in the expansion, click "Properties", then select "Settings" and select DMA checkbox, you can reboot after rebooting.

Of course, you should use DMA mode, your CDROM and hard disk must support the corresponding functions. If your CDROM and hard drive are too old, you may not be able to enjoy the superiority of this feature.
Fourth, defragmentation of disk fragmentation

Windows9x series uses the FAT file system, due to the form of the link table, in the beginning of the file, the various sectors of the file are stored continuously, but with more For file creation, deletion, etc., newly created files are distributed over discrete disk sectors with sectors and/or empty sectors of other files distributed in the middle. As more file operations progress, the discrete empty sectors are more scattered, which is called disk fragmentation. It is not literally "the disk has a small physical fragment"!

To defragment the disk is to process the file and so on, so that the file is stored continuously by sector, so that the blank sectors are grouped together, reducing the time for the head to move and locate when the system reads and writes files, thereby improving the file. Read and write time.

Although Windows also provides a "disk defragmenter" to defragment the disk, the algorithm of this program is quite stupid, not only time-consuming, but also quite easy to disk and many disk fragments.

There are many third-party disk defragmentation tools available, such as Norton's peed Disk, which is fast and efficient. It is also recommended to turn off any windows and background programs, such as anti-virus software, network firewall, etc. when defragmenting the disk. Because these daemons read and write to the disk from time to time. When the defragmenter detects that there is a disk read or write operation, it will restart the defragmentation.

After the above processing, I believe that your system has been optimized to a considerable extent. When you run some large programs and open more windows, you are not aware that it is different from before!