Make Windows XP Run Faster! - Comments

Hey there pup. After all these years on computers and picking other nerds brains I've finally found A guy that writes answers to many window problems for this dirty old 80 year old bugger in Maine. Some day when you get a little older and maybe forgot most of the internal commands I'd like to take you on one and one in all the little sneaky command critters in PRE-DOS. Actually my experience started long before DOS and the early versions of dos operating systems.

Another good site to "Turn Off Extraneous System Services" is blackviper.com where he has 3 Configurations to pick from: "SAFE" "Power User" "Bare Bones" for XP Home and Professional Service Pack 2. I do like the Walk Through at the beginning of jasonn.com. //bob

I tried the PC-on-point PC cleaner. It found 109 items, and said that it could only fix 53 of them unless I bought the software. So I said go ahead and fix the 53 items. Nothing happened at all. So I quit the program. It is misleading to say that it fixes the problems free, when it doesn't do that at all.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Some programs advertise free SCANNING, but you have to pay for the CLEANING. I suggest you stick with the (completely free) MS Anti-Spyware, Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy.

Another good cleaning site I found is Trend Micro's Housecall - searches for viruses, spyware, & adware, and cleans them.
It also identifies Windows security holes and suggests fixes, but doesn't actally fix those.
http://housecall60.trendmicro.com/en/start_corp.asp?id=scan

(must be run in IE)

please help me, my windows xp machine booting slowly.give me proper advice to solve the problem

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ummmm, did you read the article?? I mentioned a whole bunch of things you can do to help with that problem.

Hej!
One thing I came across regularly are oversized pictures as Windows desktop background. Digital cameras nowadays produce millions of pixels, far more than the screen can show. Not so computer savvy people often use the original file which causes Windows to recalculate the shown picture to a lower resolution on every redraw. Just resizing the picture to the screen size gives a much faster UI response.
Bye
Hauke Ingmar

I use ADVANCED WINDOWS CARE [http://www.iobit.com/WindowsCare.htm]
It Free. It seems to speed things up.

Thanks for the advice. After 4 years of a slow computer running XP home. Everyone told me it was because I was on dial-up, but it was slow starting even before I got on-line. I did almost everything you had on your receipe,,defraged, cleaned up the registry and programs, except for the hard drive and memory. I was a bit worried about doing this myself, but it was a piece of cake. I added 512 MB of memory and that did it!!!! Thanks!

My boot up time is about 7-8 minutes on a Sony PCG-R505EL with added memory. I've tried everything you suggest & see no improvement. A PC service/retail outlet operater claims that my problem is the Norton Internet Security 2005 that I use & that the 2006 version isn't as slow but it still won't be fast. Does this sound reasonable?

EDITOR'S NOTE: You should be aiming for 1-2 minutes boot time. Drop the Norton and see how that affects it. Then get the free eTrust anti-virus I mentioned in http://www.askbobrankin.com/should_i_buy_antispyware_or_antivirus_software.html

AVG Anti Virus is very good. And it is free for 30 days. It brings you directly to the core of the virus, then you can just press delete. And when you download things, it automatically scans it for viruses. Hope it helps!