Win Messenger

If you do not use Windows Messenger then why not uninstall it. Every time you start up your computer, Messenger also starts up which can slow everything down and use up more system resources. To uninstall it:

1. Click on the Start button and select Run.
2. Type:

Watch movies with 'AboveNormal' priority

This tweak will launch WindowsMediaPlayer with the 'AboveNormal' priority setting when opening a mediafile.

Having trouble watching a movie when you also have a lot of background processes going on?

virtualpaggingfile

This tweak can increase the amount of RAM significantly used on your
computer. What this tweak actually does is it uses your hard-drive
disk-space to emulate RAM. This is called caching, or in Microsoft
terms - The Virtual Paging File Size.

1.) Go into Control Panel and into Performance and Maintenance
2.) Get into System
3.) Click the Advanced Tab
4.) In the Performance Frame, click on Settings
5.) Once in Settings click on the Advanced Tab
6.) Now under Virutal Memory click on Change
7.) Here you can set your RAM value. The recommended increase you
should make should be achieved by multiplying your RAM by 1.5. This
is already done if you have a System Managed file size. I like to
increase it by 1/5 of my actual hard-drive space. This will drastically
increase performance, because the system will now have a pool of cache
to retrieve memory from.

Happy Tweaking!

Unload .dll's to Free Memory

Windows Explorer caches DLLs (Dynamic-Link Libraries) in memory for a
period of time after the application using them has been closed. This
can be an inefficient use of memory.

1. Find the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current
Version\Explorer].
2. Create a new DWORD sub-key named 'AlwaysUnloadDLL' and set the default
value to equal '1' to disable Windows caching the DLL in memory.
3. Restart Windows for the change to take effect.

I tried this after running a intense program, then watched the task manager;
memory recovered it self.

Turn off System Restore to save space

By default, Windows XP keeps a backup of system files in the System Volume Information folder. This can eat up valuable space on your hard drive. If you don't want Windows to back up your system files:

1. Open the Control Panel
2. Double-click on system
3. Click the System Restore tab
4. Check "Turn off System Restore on all drives"
5. Hit Apply
6. You may now delete the System Volume Information folder.

Warning! If you turn this off you will not be able to use Windows System Restore to restore your system in case of failure.

Shutdown XP using your keyboard!

Wouldn’t it be great to easily shut down or restart your computer with a simple keystroke? Well now you can! You know about “Ctrl, Alt, Delete”, but what about “Ctrl, Alt, END”?

Here's how it's done. The instructions are quite simple, and as long as you follow along, this should be rather painless! Please follow step by step!

Shutdown XP Faster

Start Regedit.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control.
Click on the "Control" Folder.
Select "WaitToKillServiceTimeout"
Right click on it and select Modify.
Set it a value lower than 2000 (Mine is set to 200).

Solution for power down/system shutdown

Many people have been having problems with their system not automatically
closing down when they 'turn off' their PC. This is because of the APM
setting which is not enabled. To enable it, right click on my computer
goto properties select hardware and click device mangager.
Click view and then on show hidden devices. You should see the NT ATM /
Legacy Interface mode with a red cross on it. Double click it and on
the screen that appears at the bottom choose enable from the drop
down menu.

Your PC should now automatically switch off completely on shutdown.

Sacrifice Graphics for Speed

XP is very graphic-intensive which results in a large consumption of RAM. Sometimes to squeeze in the nitty-gritty megs of memory can be, by sacrificing the pretty little bits and colors that are on your screen.

- For starters, reducing the color density and and bit display of your screen will ultimately increase speed to your computer.

1.)On your desktop, right click and go to PROPERTIES.
2.)In properties go to Settings, and set your color quality to the lowest bit-rating (most likely 15 bit). This will reduce color density, and icon quality, but will heavily boast system performance.

Remove Start-up Items

Having programs run when windows loads slows down your start.

There are two ways do disable programs that may be in your startup (like icq, messanger,)

The easiest is to do the following:
1. start --> run --> msconfig
2. Click on the "startup" tab (furthest right)\
3. Unclick any items you don't want to load when windows starts.

Rahasia Regedit

1. Mengamankan komputer
key:HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
jenis Value: string Value
nama Value: GoAway
Data Value: rundll.exe user. exe,exitWindows
sebelum membuat ini kita harus membuat sistem paswort lewat kontrol panel.

Proformance Increase through My Computer

Easy enough tweak to usually find out about it on your own, but still, some of use still don't find it right away. So here it is:
1: Start > Right Click on My Computer and select properties.
2: Click on the "Advanced" tab
3: See the "Perfomance" section? Click "Settings"
4: Disable all or some of the following:

Problems enabling DMA on IDE drives

Are you experiencing jerky DivX;-) movies or does your mp3s click and pop on your new fancy Pentium IV 3Ghz+?

Then the reason is probably that XP has set your IDE drives into PIO mode instead of DMA! Remedy? Enter the device manager by right clicking “my computer” and choosing “properties” and then “hardware”.

Power Process

A clarification is needed on Spongebob's Tweak post for getting more processing power.

"In the Run box, type "Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks".  This frees up any idle tasks running in the background so that Windows XP can devote its full attention to what you want it to do.  For example playing graphic intensive games."

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Turn off Indexing to speed up XP

Windows XP keeps a record of all files on the hard disk so when you do
a search on the hard drive it is faster. There is a downside to this
and because the computer has to index all files, it will slow down
normal file commands like open, close, etc. If you do not do a whole
lot of searches on your hard drive then I suggest turnning this feature
 off:

NTFS Cluster size

Cluster is an allocation unit. If you create file lets say 1 byte in size, at least one cluster should be allocated on FAT file system. On NTFS if file is small enough, it can be stored in MFT record itself without using additional clusters. When file grows beyond the cluster boundary, another cluster is allocated. It means that the bigger the cluster size, the more disk space is wasted, however, the performance is better.

No more low disk space messages

go into registry with REGEDIT.EXE,
go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\
and (if not already there) add DWORD (without quotes) "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks" and change the value to 1. Restart.No more low disk space messages

Modify auto-reboot setting

Since Microsoft has worked so hard to make this version "the most stable ever," then this tweak is not needed.  However, I am fairly sure that they have not perfected millions of lines of code in less than a year.  Below you will discover how to turn the auto reboot feature on and off.  This allows your computer to instantly reboot upon a system fault.  (The blue screen)
Start Regedit.  If you are unfamiliar with regedit please refer to our FAQ on how to get started.

Memory Performance Tweak

Memory Performance Tweak

These Settings will fine tune your systems memory

management -atleast 256MB of ram recccomended

go to start\run\regedit -and then to the following key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

Make Icon Fast

Make icons in windows appear quicker

In Windows XP everytime you open My Computer to browse folders XP
automatically searches for network files and printers. This causes
a delay in displaying your icons. You probably see the "default"
windows icon and as you scroll it changes to the correct icon. This
is how to stop that...

1. Open My Computer
2. Click on the Tools menu and select Folder Options...
3. Under Folder Options select the view tab.
4. Uncheck the very first box that reads "Automatically search for
network folders and printers".
5. Click "Apply" or "OK"

You should see a dramatic increase in speed when Windows displays
 your icons.

Logon & Shutdown Theme

how to change the theme that windows xp uses to show the logon
and shutdown screens.

The colors it uses are at the following:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors