Windows XP Home User Memory Optimization Guide (1)

Many people have only one computer at home, mainly used for surfing the Internet and playing games, and the configuration is not very high. If you install Windows XP, you can use a word. To describe: slow! This is an experience I have installed Windows Experience Edition (Chinese name for Windows XP). Why is it so slow, because Microsoft has added a lot of new features to Windows XP in order to let you have a new experience, such as: Help Center, Remote Desktop, System Recovery, Automatic Software Update, Internet Time Synchronization..., for me In fact, these functions are basically not used, and the memory is consumed in vain. You know, most people's machines are still only 128M (although my machine has 384M of memory, I still hate unnecessary waste)! Below we mainly talk about memory optimization of Windows XP. My Windows XP version is Build2600. Since Windows XP is a global unified internal code type product, although its interface is in English, it should be easy to handle Chinese. If you have Windows XP in Chinese, the steps described in this article are equally feasible. First let's start with the System Properties dialog. We will turn off System Recovery, Automatic Updates, and Remote Desktop. "System Recovery" is useful for people who make mistakes frequently, but it will keep your hard drive in a highly busy state. You will find that your hard drive is always busy because Windows XP has to record the operation so that it can be restored later. . If you have confidence in yourself, then don't use it because it can take up a lot of memory. Then turn off the "Automatic Updates" feature. This feature is great for users who are hanging online all the time, but considering that most homes are dial-up, there is no reason to keep this feature open. What's more, Microsoft's upgrade is not always a new launch, we can update it every once in a while. I recommend that you change the default automatic upgrade to confirm the upgrade method so that you know what the system does. Next we will turn off the "Remote Desktop" function. This feature seems familiar, because Windows 2000 Server has a Terminal Service to do the same thing, we can find Microsoft's strategy, in the era of Windows 2000, only the server version of Windows 2000 brought this feature, and the name is also very professional It is called terminal service. I am afraid that the average user does not know what this function does. In Windows XP, this feature has also been added to the Windows XP Home and Professional versions, and changed its name to "Remote Desktop." As the name implies, this feature allows you to let others access your desktop on another machine. It can be said that this function is useful in a network environment, such as a local area network. For example, if you have a problem, you can ask a colleague for help. He can access your machine directly through "Remote Desktop" to solve the problem without going to your front. But at home, usually only one computer, this feature is superfluous, so Microsoft has given it a new feature called "fast user switching", that is, you can not log out your users and let another person be the other user Sign up to use your computer. I personally doubt its practical value. Most people use computers without the concept of users. Computers use them and users. So my opinion is to turn it off, otherwise you will not waste it if you don't use it. Let's take a look at the "Advanced" tab in "System Properties". First, the "Performance" setting is in the default situation. Windows XP is configured according to the best visual effects, if you think your system Especially if the display part is very slow, I suggest you change the settings of "Startup and Recovery" next time: Although Windows XP is very stable, there are also crashes. If your system crashes when you find that your hard drive is ringing, it is because Windows XP is writing DUMP files. For us, if you don't plan to send this file to Microsoft, then what is the use? What? So my suggestion is still closed: Finally, take a look at the "error report" function

Yes. This feature can automatically collect some error data and send it to Microsoft when your Windows XP error occurs, so that it can improve their operating system. This feature is not very suitable for a dial-up user, because who will spend their own money while wasting their time to send these very large and useful data only for Microsoft? If this feature doesn't work for you, why bother it to take up your memory? If you don't have a printer at home, you can turn off the "Printer Spooler" service. If you don't have a scheduled task, turn off the "Task Scheduler" service. For most people, the "Remote Registry" is also useless and can be turned off. The following is a list of all the optimized services. I optimized the place with a red circle: After optimization, Windows XP takes up about 60M of memory after booting: In addition, everyone sees me here only concerned about each The "VM Size" usage of the application, not the "Memory Usage". The reason is that only "virtual memory" is counted in the "Commit Charge" data, which is the statistical value that everyone sees in the status bar. We can do a little experiment to verify my statement, we start WORD, record its memory usage and the total memory usage of the system, then minimize this WORD, check its memory usage and the total memory usage of the system, not It is difficult to find that "MemoryUsage" becomes smaller with the minimization of WORD, and "VM Size" does not change, and the total memory usage of the system does not change with the minimization of WORD. That's why I only care about the "VM Size". I hope you can pay attention when you look at the memory, VM Size is the exact number. Since this article focuses on system optimization under Windows XP, I will not write out some ways to save memory when you are familiar with memory saving methods, such as not using wallpaper. In addition, you may say that you have turned off the features of Windows XP, is it Windows XP? In fact, I know this, but the fish and bear's paw can't have both. If your machine configuration is very high-grade, if you think that you have to run Windows XP slowly, you can of course use Windows XP's default configuration. After all, this It is the recommended method of use by Microsoft. However, even if you turn off the features I mentioned, Windows XP still has a lot of new features waiting for you, such as the new resource manager is really very different, so the optimized system is still Windows. XP!