Win XP Home User Memory Optimization Guide

A lot of 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 of installing the Windows Experience Edition (the Chinese name of windows xp). Why is it so slow, because Microsoft has added a lot of new features to Windows XP in order to give you 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 your windows xp is in Chinese, the steps described in this article are equally feasible.

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 records The operation is to be restored in the future. 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 function seems familiar, because Windows 2000 server has a terminal service to do the same thing, we can find Microsoft's strategy from it. In the era of Windows 2000, only the server version of Windows 2000 took this function, 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 the "System Properties", first the "Performance" settings

In the absence of the situation, windows xp is the best Visual effects to configure, if you think your system, especially the display part is very slow, I suggest you change it, here is my configuration:

Next look at the "Startup and Recovery" settings:

Although windows xp is very stable, there are times when it crashes. If your system crashes when you find that your hard drive is ringing, it is because windows xp is writing a dump file. For us, if you don't plan to send this file to Microsoft, then what is the use? What? So my suggestion is still off:
Finally, take a look at the "Error Reporting" feature.

This feature can automatically collect some error data when your windows xp error occurs and send it to Microsoft to 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?

Finally, let's see what additional features are available. Install the icon to enter the system's service list:

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. Here is a list of all the optimized services. I have optimized the place with a red circle:

After optimization, windows xp takes up about 60m of memory after booting:
< In addition, everyone sees that I only care about the "virtual memory" (vm size) usage of each 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 the word, record its memory usage and the total memory usage of the system, then minimize the word, check its memory usage and the total memory usage of the system, the result As follows:

Minimize the previous memory records

It is not difficult to find that "memoryusage" becomes smaller with the word minimum, and "vm size" does not change, and the total memory of the system Usage does not change as the word is minimized. That's why I only care about "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, so for some familiar ways to save memory, such as not using wallpaper, I will not write out to make everyone waste time. In addition, you may say that you have turned off the features of windows xp, is it still 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, if you think that you have to run windows xp, you can certainly use the default configuration of windows xp. After all, this is It is the recommended method of use by Microsoft. However, even if you close the functions I mentioned, Windows XP still has a lot of new features waiting for you. For example, the new resource manager is really very different, so the optimized system is still windows. Xp !