ffx2net
Feb 10 2005, 03:12 AM
There are many ways for us to improve our computer performance when we're using memory intensive programs like 3ds max, adobe photoshop(when dealing with large poster-size pictures) etc. Below are some suggested steps to improve your computer's performance. 1)Reduce the number of processes running during startup.  This can be achieved by using the MSCONFIG provided by windows. To access this hidden program, go to start > run and type "MSCONFIG". This will brings you to the MSCONFIG program. For novice users, go directly to the startup tag and you can choose to disable "useless" programs by unchecking them. After you have configured the neccessary stuffs, click on the "apply" button to apply the changes made. 2)Reducing visual effects.  You can achieve an immediate boost in speed by changing another setting in System Properties. Select the Advanced tab, click Settings under Performance then choose the Visual Effects tab. The display and interface in Windows XP will use up its fair share of memory and CPU resources. By checking the option "Adjust for best performance", the appearance of your system will revert to a more basic interface. This will "visually" improves you system performance. Try it yourself to spot the changes!! 3)Cleaning up traces of unwanted/ ophan registry left by uninstalled programs.  You can achieve that by running RegEdit in Windows. Go to start> run and type "RegEdit" to run the program. Remember to back up a copy of it before attempting to remove unwanted program registries. Deleting the wrong registry could cause serious damage to your operating system, hence delete them on your own risk!! Not recommended for novice users. For novice users, I do recommend registry mechanic, a shareware program which will automatically scan through your computers' registries and helped you to remove them. the list goes on....
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miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
Feb 10 2005, 09:03 AM
Good tips ffx2net. One more tool that you can use to reduce system drag is Sissoft Sandra Pro - It's aSystem Analyzer tool that will perform some rigorous benchmarking of all your system devices and then come up with a combined report of what all you should do to cut down on excessive resource utilization. This includes unnecessary background processes, startup files, those visual effects you mentioned and loads more... I've been using it for sometime - and I must say its an excellent tool with an extensive report generator.
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JimBeam
Feb 10 2005, 10:00 AM
Hey thanks for the tips, both of you... I'll definitely be trying them all out because I've recently noticed that my PC has been running considerably slower than usual. Hopefully by following some of these tips I can get my machine running fast again. microscopic^earthling, any tips on where I could get that program? And if/when I try it out and am having problems, any chance you could give me some further tips on what to do? I generally don't like to disable or delete stuff when I don't know exactly what it's function is and what effect it is going to have.
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jipman
Feb 10 2005, 11:36 AM
How about increasing the windows page file?
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ffx2net
Feb 10 2005, 03:57 PM
I personally think its better that you manipulate these settings manually rather than using a software to do it because installing a software means running 1 more process in your computer. Furthermore what if you forget to revert back all the default settings when you uninstall the program?
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redsox58
Feb 10 2005, 08:11 PM
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Feb 11 2005, 03:40 PM
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jonypawks
Feb 12 2005, 11:37 AM
QUOTE (jipman @ Feb 10 2005, 06:36 AM) How about increasing the windows page file? I've noticed that letting Windows manage your pagefile can slow things down because it's always trying to figure out how big the pagefile should be. I think the recommended size is around 1.5x the amount of RAM you have. So if you have 512MB of RAM you'd use 768MB pagefile but that could be wrong. Whatever windows sets it at should work fine too, just set it yourself to a constant rate so that Windows doesn't waste time figuring out what the size of the pagefile should be.
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hazeshow
May 16 2005, 01:27 PM
Another way to increase perfomance ist to create a ramdisk. A ramdisk is a virtual volume which lives completely in the RAM, so all data stored in it will be gone after shutdown. Get yourself a little ramdisk-application for example this one here: http://www.ramdisk.tk/Then change the directory of your Temporary Internet Files and put it into the ramdisk. (In Internet Explorer: Extras-Options-TempFiles-Settings-Move Folder). From now on when accessing the temporary files no harddisk action is necessary, so surfing the web turns faster! GreetingZ
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Rudy
May 16 2005, 02:52 PM
What is real interesting though some people are fascinated by the amount little icon that show up in their task bar. I met a guy who had about fifteen icons listed and boasted that he had more but after he had removed a few programs they diapered. I have to be always telling my co-workers if applications do not need to be loaded at startup remove their icons from the startup folder or disable auto launch at startup to save memory. But I think that some of them are fascinated by the little pictures too.
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iGuest
Nov 23 2008, 09:27 PM
Recommended Registry Cleaner
Ways To Improve Your Performance In Windows XP
I would like to recommend the registry cleaner I use: PC-Kitchen's RegistryCleaner.
-reply by andy
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KDEWolf
Sep 18 2006, 02:00 AM
QUOTE(the empty calorie @ Feb 13 2006, 10:42 PM) 
I don't ever have to do any of this with my computers.....they all run fine, for months, even years at a time. Oh yeah....you just don't have those problems unless you're using Windows *grins*
This is not necessarily true. You're probably saying this because the most part of windows user are morons and/or haven't any technical knowledge. I managed to run Windows OSes in my computers since I got my 1st computer. I used to format only when upgrading my system or changing the OS, and even then making backup of most of the old data. This means I had files prior to 94, and still my old slow computer always used to run even faster than better computers from my friends. It's a matter of maintenance and general knowledge. My only real 'format' was some weeks ago when my HD got screwed with a sudden computer power down (this really sucked), but it was a hardware issue, and not software. It happens that usually people who use other OSes than Windows (mainly open-source ones) do have more knowledge, and know better their own systems, therefore making they run loose and clean. Put a stupid guy using Linux, with an instant messenger, a browser and a P2P program for 3 months and see how fast will it be running. Other thing to take into consideration is that while usually open-source OSes come with most of its features/programs disabled by default, leaving you to choose what to add and whatnot, Windows comes with tons of features on by default, even those used by 0,0023% of its users. This makes a big difference as well on how fast will they be, since average users most likely won't deactivate those they don't use. Sorry for the lack of text formatting, but I'm quite lazy right now to do it. =p
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foolakadugie
Sep 17 2006, 08:23 PM
Also some replacement shells for windows pull less RAM than the default explorer.exe; Although alot of people don't really like using alternstive shells.
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sekhar
Sep 17 2006, 04:32 AM
By doing al these stuff its a time wasting process. There is a minimal neglegible gain say 0.005 % by this. Just increase ur ram size. Thats it.
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the empty calorie
Feb 14 2006, 01:42 AM
I don't ever have to do any of this with my computers.....they all run fine, for months, even years at a time. Oh yeah....you just don't have those problems unless you're using Windows *grins*
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