4 Tricks to Speed up Windows XP
October 10th, 2008 85 views
- Increase the limit of downloading Internet Explorer.
The default configuration IE lets you download only two files simultaneously. To increase this limit, for example, up to 16 download bootable at the same time open the registry editor (regedit from command line) and identified the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Internet Settings. Create inside a new key selecting “New => DWORD Value” with the right mouse button: enter “MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server” as the key name and “16″ as a value. At the same way add further key “MaxConnectionsPerServer” always inserting “16″ as a value. - Disable Indexing Service.
The Indexing Service Windows consumes a considerable number of system resources and often is the main cause of sudden slowdowns. Disabling this service is you can recover disk space that increase the performances.Go to Control Panel, select “Tools of Directors => Services” then identified the voice “Indexing Service”. Selezionatelo and clicking the right mouse button, select the item “Properties”: select “Stop” and set the parameter “Startup type” to “manual”. Date “OK.” - Changing the size of the cache of Internet Explorer.
A cache of IE is configured by default to manage a large number of temporary files. The problem is the fact that to save a large number of small files on ‘hard disks, greatly increases the fragmentation and consumes a lot of space. E ‘advisable to reduce the cache size to 128MB to obtain the best performances.Launch Internet Explorer and select “Tools => Internet Options => General.” In “History Explorations” select “Settings” and change the default “Diskspace be used” leading to “128″. - Speeding up the opening of the menu.
E ‘can increase the speed of opening and closing the menu of Windows XP, in order to obtain a better level of usability.Go to Control Panel and select “System => Advanced.” Under the heading “Performance” select “Settings” from the list and remove the check on the items’ Show shading menus “and” the Dissolvi the menu after the click. “Date” OK. “
