Long-term use of Windows XP's hibernation feature, you will find that the system will soon become unstable. At this time, it is best to press Ctrl+Alt+Del, click on the “process” tab in the pop-up "Windows Task Manager" window, find the Explorer.exe file, and then click "“ at the bottom of the window" to end the process. ” button, do not care about the reaction of Windows XP at this time. Then switch to the "Applications" tab and click the "New Tasks" button below. In the pop-up "Create new task" dialog box, enter: Explorer.exe, and then click the "OK" button.
Turn off “Fast Switch & rdquo;Features
“Quick Switching is a very dazzling feature in Windows XP. If your computer's memory is less than 64MB, it will be automatically disabled during the installation of Windows XP, but for users with 96MB, 128MB, or even more memory, the system will automatically turn this feature on, if This feature is not very needed and can be considered to turn it off. Run the “User Accounts” option in the “Control Panel” menu, select “Change User Login or Logout Mode”, and uncheck “Use Fast User Switching” checkbox.
Turn off idle processes to improve performance
The advantage of doing this is that it can be very effective when playing 3D games, and it is also very useful. In the "Run" dialog box, type: Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll, ProcessIdleTasks, and then press Enter.
Resolve the problem of slow shutdown of Windows XP
Some users have noticed that the computer shutdown will become very slow after installing Windows XP. If you have an NVidia graphics card installed, you have to find it. Many times this is caused by a service called "NVIDIA Driver Helper Service". This service is generally not needed, and it takes up a lot of system resources. To close it, open “Control Panel”→“Administrative Tools”→"Service”, find and right click on the VIDIA Driver Helper Service item in the pop-up window, select “properties”, in In the Launched drop-down list box, select “Disabled”.
Turn off the indexing service to improve performance
In the "Run" command, type: msconfig, then select the "Services" tab, find the Indexing Service, and remove the previous tick. Or set it to “Startup Type” in the "Services" dialog box.
Short Windows XP boot time
Open “Registry Editor”, find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control \\Session Manager\\Memory Management\\PrefetchParameters, change the value of the key named EnablePrefetcher to 5, restart the computer.
Accelerate user switching and network connection speed
Open “Registry Editor”, find [HEKY_LOCAL_MACHINE/OSOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Winlogon], create a new string value KeepRasConnections, set its value to 1 can be.
Speed up the burning of some burning software
If you don't use Windows XP's burning function and choose other software, you can go to “Control Panel”→“Administrative Tools”→“Service & rdquo;, double-click IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service, set it to "disable", which will speed up the burning speed of some burning software.
Windows XP is the most widely used operating system. For this reason, Bookworm has integrated its experience of using Windows XP over the past few years into a serial package dedicated to everyone. The articles strive to be refined and practical. Today is the Windows XP optimization tips that everyone cares about. Due to the length of the article, we are divided into the upper, middle and lower parts. This is the third part.
Turn off useless performance counters
By default, Windows XP will always run several performance counters, which are mainly used to monitor various hardware or services, because the recorded information is fundamental to the average user. Not useful, so it is recommended to turn it off. This will also improve the overall performance of the system. Here we are going to borrow the extended performance counter list tool provided by Microsoft (download address: http://download.microsoft.com/download /win2000platform/exctrlst/1.00.0.1/nt5/en-us/exctrlst_setup.exe), this The tool can list all the performance counters in the system and show whether they are loaded or closed. The method of closing is also very simple, just select a counter and then uncheck the check below.
Small Tips
If you cancel the performance counter, then the monitoring function in the "Performance" item in the "Control Panel&>→“Administrative Tools"