Computers Tweaking the bejeezus out of your PC ;)

Here's a few small tweaks, most important first.

If you have 20 programs in your system tray, clean some of them out LOL. Avoid spyware and use Adaware or Spybot Search and Destroy.

Don't use XP styles (no Luna). Choose windows classic style instead of windows XP style.

Don't use wallpaper.

This post doesn't really count as tweaking, but if you are going to do the stuff saberJ2X suggested, you will likely want to do this as well.

Nice links sj2x

 

Well, if you have more than one hard drive and Windows 2K/XP, you can do this tweak too. But it only works if you have different physical hard disks, don't do it in 2 partitions on the same drive because it will make the system slower (the disk heads would have to go continuously from one partition to the other and back).

Go to system properties -> advanced options -> use of memory -> advanced options, then set BOTH the pagefile maximum and minimum size to 2.5 times the amount of RAM you have, and place it in the secondary hard drive (the one that doesn't have Windows installed). The idea is to use the secondary hard disk the least possible, just once in a while to do backups, and have the system and data on the primary one. This way we have a drive almost exclusively for a static pagefile, so the hard drive with Windows in it doesn't have to do that work; and it speeds the system a bit when you work with large files and P2P programs.

Don't forget to defrag all your hard disks (preferably with some third party utility; Norton Systemworks works well for me). It's better if you have the hard disk drives in separate IDE channels (I.E. primary master and secondary master). Just put the pagefile in the most used partition of the least used hard drive.

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I'd recommend another little utility too for Windows, called CPUIdle (use google to find it). This utility runs on the background consuming nearly no resources at all. What does it do? Simple: it lowers the temperature of your processor.

Simply put, with Windows whenever your processor is idle (95% of the time on your average PC) it still is on, and it still consumes power and generates heat. With CPUIdle, processor power is turned off during that time.

When the processor is not receiving any instruction (that is, 95% of the time your PC is on), CPUIdle puts it to sleep (sends a "halt", HLT instruction), turning off the power to the processor until a new instruction arrives (I think Linux does this by default).

Nearly all processors have this feature. The computer and everything stays on; you don't notice anything but your CPU temperature dropping 10 ºC or more (and the CPUIdle process in task list instead of that silly inactive system process taking 99% of CPU time).

Perfect for hot summers, or simply when you leave your PC downloading 24/7.

And no, I'm not being paid for writing this I just use it and find it useful.

Edit: I forgot to mention this URL. It has a list of all Windows XP services, and explains what they do and which ones can be safely turned off to free system resources.

 

Network and Internet Connections

Internet Options:

Delete Cookies, Delete Files, Clear History.. I do a maintenance check-up once in a while concerning what I mentioned. Makes my 56K a little bit faster.. well it seems like it
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I do clean up my hard drive as well.. delete programs that I barely use or just the ones that are completely useless.. It becomes a process whenever I restart my system.

 

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do somebody can work it??

 

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you can do it better