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Performance

I run an Inspiron 9100 Laptop and a Dimension 8200 Desktop. Both have 512 Ram and fairly fast chips, 2 MHZ range. The hard drive usage is only 20% so that leaves 80% capacity. I have XP Home on the desktop and XP Pro on the laptop. My question is:
 
What can I do to enhance performance on these machines without getting too exotic? I do some Office type stuff and lots of Internet/Emails/File Transfers. I feel like there is a lot of Overhead with the XP systems that I don't need but I don't know how to identify and nullify. I just want a fast machine with the bare minimum of programs running.
 
Thanks in Advance.
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    rickmktg

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    Posted October 17th, 2005 18:00


    @stmar wrote:
    I run an Inspiron 9100 Laptop and a Dimension 8200 Desktop. Both have 512 Ram and fairly fast chips, 2 MHZ range. The hard drive usage is only 20% so that leaves 80% capacity. I have XP Home on the desktop and XP Pro on the laptop. My question is:
     
    What can I do to enhance performance on these machines without getting too exotic? I do some Office type stuff and lots of Internet/Emails/File Transfers. I feel like there is a lot of Overhead with the XP systems that I don't need but I don't know how to identify and nullify. I just want a fast machine with the bare minimum of programs running.
     
    Thanks in Advance.
     
    Start, Run, Msconfig.  Click on Startup Tab.  Uncheck everything that this site says you can: http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php . When the computer reboots, check the box that says don't show me this again.  If it's X or N, uncheck it.
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    byker49

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    Posted October 17th, 2005 18:00

    You don't mention which programs are running ar startup if any? Shutting down needless programs from running will improve performance more than anything.
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    Posted October 22nd, 2005 20:00

    There are a lot of services you can disable in services.msc.

    http://web.archive.org/web/20040623080713/www.blackviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm

    Outlines which services you can disable based upon your needs.

    Also make sure to run disk clean up, remove windows components you do not use, and defrag every so often.

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