Hey I just re formatted my pc, now it seems slower then ever. my rig consists of : Manufacturer: n/a Processor: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+, ~2.0GHz Memory: 1536MB RAM Hard Drive: 30 GB Video Card: RADEON X800 Series Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor Sound Card: Yamaha DS1x Native Audio Speakers/Headphones: Logitech 5.1 DD/ SkullCandy Headphones Keyboard:USB Root Hub Compaq Mouse:USB Root Hub Logitech Operating System:Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) yes ive done the ms config and removed unessecary stuff. Im no expert but i figured my pc should be farily fast, lol my wallet agrees too! anyway, if you have any ideas let me know thanks very much
did you have any settings changed in your setup that would have made it faster before the format that you just have not done again since the format? Here are some things you can read through and try. http://www.xtreme-source.com/tutorials-windows/934-make-windows-xp-boot-faster.html http://www.xtreme-source.com/tutorials-windows/933-increase-hard-drive-speeds-xp.html http://www.xtreme-source.com/tutori...our-applications-load-faster-much-faster.html http://www.xtreme-source.com/tutorials-windows/1033-speed-up-your-memory-performance.html
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Start with the basics have you booted into safe mode & done a disk cleanup & defrag, another point is your harddrive speed a 5400rpm model or 7200 rpm if it's a 5400rpm go get yourself a faster larger hdd & image it,as your wasting all the available power your cpu has with a huge bottle neck of what's a useless hdd,changing said hdd will practically double your speed,yeah i realise it maybe hard to believe but i've done it & it works.A useful little utility is microsofts tweakui power toy it's free & pretty nifty especially for adjusting speed of menu's plus a few other handy adjustments it can do,best of all when the tweaks are set the utility uses no cpu or memory Regarding the links to increasing performace in xp if your running any sort of GUI software like windowblinds etc some of those tweaks won't work as they'll interfere with the running of the graphic software,by rights windowblinds or whatever will give you a popup saying as much & will request said changes be turned off EDIT: You can use ccleaner to remove any registry startup shortcuts to help xp speed up a little on boot it's listed under the tools button on the left,if you have adobe installed but don't use it delete it's speed optimizer entry (adobe 8.0 etc has a new registry entry which it installed to optomize it's loading when the app is required),you can also use the same registry entry remover for other unused other unecessary entries
There is a tweak for online & assuming your close enough to the exchange tho it's somewhat costly it's called broadband Reason for edit: missed letters in some words as brain types faster than finger..lol
there is another tutorial at the links i posted about how to speed up Firefox if you would like to use that as your internet browser.
