Speeding up windows?

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hi,

i have had a look at the sticky but is there anything more that i could do to make windows faster? Latly it becoming more and more sluggish.

I have scanned it for viruses, spyware, adaware and spybot S&D. Have defraged it with O&O defrag, I have deleted unused programs and files still got 60GB left from my 80GB HDD.

Any other ideas that could help speed it up?

thanks

 

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Just had a look at the process and its mainly my UPS monitoring software, about 5 programs that are linked with that.
Then there the basic ones like firefox, msn messinger and outlook 2003 etc.

 

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I'm going to assume that you are at least a power user, so, using msconfig, uncheck every single startup. Every one.

Then, using services.msc, disable as many services as you can.

Keep an eye on your processes (taskmgr), and services (from a command prompt, type tasklist /svc), disabling the ones that you do not require.

There are very few programmes that are a must for running a stripped down OS, including firewalls and AVGs.

On msconfig disable my antivirus and firewall aswell?

 

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Add a VM Size tab.

And close all of your open programmes (messenger etc...)

You should only be concerned with background processes.

How do I add VM Size tab? or do you mean take a print screen of the performance tab?

 

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I'm assuming you are behind a NAT firewall (hardware router), and that you don't open every single "click me" email that you receive.

yup, got my router today with nat firewall thingy. yup any email I dont want I delete straight away.

 

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