Windows speed
- Thread starter pcknight
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hijackthis
look for that on majorgeeks.com
then paste the log into.. www.hijackthis.de
it'll tell you what each thing is, just disable everything you don't need
also, download ccleaner (lite), run the cleaner and do a defrag
look for that on majorgeeks.com
then paste the log into.. www.hijackthis.de
it'll tell you what each thing is, just disable everything you don't need
also, download ccleaner (lite), run the cleaner and do a defrag
disable system restore
download regseeker and do a full registry scan, and remove all green + red entires
(after regseeker) use ntregopt to shrink registry size (sort of like defrags it)
create a new user account and use that instead (mydocuments and desktop will need to be copied across)
update drivers for your hardware
remove all unneeded things from add/remove programs
disable services you don't need (services.msc)
uninstall windowsdefender or any other antispyware programs that constantly run..
if you have xpsp2 and a router, then uninstall antivirus (just don't visit any silly websites)
these three are a bit more drastic
reinstall xp
get more ram
get faster hard drive
download regseeker and do a full registry scan, and remove all green + red entires
(after regseeker) use ntregopt to shrink registry size (sort of like defrags it)
create a new user account and use that instead (mydocuments and desktop will need to be copied across)
update drivers for your hardware
remove all unneeded things from add/remove programs
disable services you don't need (services.msc)
uninstall windowsdefender or any other antispyware programs that constantly run..
if you have xpsp2 and a router, then uninstall antivirus (just don't visit any silly websites)
these three are a bit more drastic
reinstall xp
get more ram
get faster hard drive
-creating a new user accountYucca said:
sure it helps, it won't have any of the CURRENT_USER\Run entries, and should be a pretty plain account -with shortcuts to programs you've got installed for allusers in the start menu etc
quite often a good way of stopping strange problems that users experience are to create a new local account for them on their machine
the uphclean tool is good for keeping accounts in tact too
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en
Drizmod said:
this is a good tool for seeing what is taking the longest to load, but windows runs the optimisations that bootvis does itself every few days anyway
mrk said:offloading the pagefile to a 2nd hdd and getting 2gb ram helped my windows boot and work much faster
well of course this will help too
ram is king