7 Different Ways to Speed Up XP

[Background Music Playing] Tinkernut.com Welcome to tinkernut.com video cast. For tutorial request, please submit those at tinkernut.com. This week’s tutorial, I am going to show you seven different ways to speed up Windows XP: run in the Disk Cleanup utility, removing cache web pages, defragmenting the hard drive, disabling indexing, disabling visual styles, editing startup items and defragmenting the registry. It is a lot to do, so let us get started. Step One: Run Disk Cleanup The first thing you want to is you want to run the disk cleanup utility in Windows, you can do this by going to start, all programs, accessories, system tools and then disk cleanup. Just select the drive that you want to cleanup and click ok and this will remove any unnecessary files. Step Two: Removed Cached Web Pages The second thing you want to do is just to remove cached web pages so open up Internet Explorer, go to tools and go to delete browsing history and it will show you everything it is going to delete and then just click delete all and then you can click yes. Keep in mind that this does delete passwords. Step Three: Defragment the Hard Drive The third thing we will want to do is we want to defragment the hard drive and you may want to save this from last because it does take quite a while. So go to start, all programs, accessories, and then back to system tools again and then to disk defragmenter. And if you want to know if your hard drive even needs to be defragmented, just click analyze and it is going to analyze your hard drive and whenever it is through it is going to tell you whether it needs to be defragmented or not. And all this does is it just compiles all the files that are on your hard drive so that they are easier to access. Step Four: Disable Indexing on the C: Drive The fourth thing we want to do is to disable indexing on the C: drive and while we are doing that, just go to start, in my computer and I will show you how to do something else. To make this open up faster, go to tools, folder options, click on the view tab and uncheck the boxes says automatically search for network folders. This will allow you to open up your my computer folder faster. Just right click on the C: drive and go to properties and uncheck the box it says allow indexing and click apply and ok. What this will do is just for disable indexing to make your computer run faster. Step Five: Disable Windows Visual Styles The fifth we want to do is we want disable windows visual styles. To do this, right click on my computer again and go to properties and then select the advanced tab and click on settings and then just select adjust for best performance and this will disable all the fancy Windows XP visual styles. Step Six: Edit Windows Startup Items The sixth thing will want to do is we want to edit Windows startup files. To do this, click on start, run and type in MSconfig and click ok. This going to launch the system configuration utility and just click on the startup tab and this shows everything that starts up with your computer. And a lot of these programs are not even useful, not even necessary. To find out what they are, you can either stretch at the middle command column or just go to Google and type in the programs name and click search and you can bring up what it is. For instance, this one is for realtec audio device so it is my realtec sound drive. So I might want to leave that enable but just go to the list and uncheck anything that is not necessary and this will help your computer be faster and then click apply when you are through and since we are here, go ahead and click on the service tab and at the very bottom, check the box it says hide all Microsoft service and then scan through whatever is left and uncheck anything that you know you do not use and then once you are done that, just click close and re-start your computer. Step seven: Defragment the Registry The seventh thing we want to do is defragment the registry and to do this, we are going to need a special program so open up Internet Explorer and go to hoverdesk.net/freeware.