Speed up your XP machine!

[tw1ggy5]

Problem is with this machine its difficult to tell much difference as its fast at everything anyway other than highly taxing tasks. Still snappy with 46 processes going, 2 drives defragging in the background, video running, Broadband maxed out downloading, large Opera session and serving video over the network, aswel as the usual array of AV/Firewall blah blah blah. My pagefile is also located on a seperate physical disk from the Operating System to help performance.

Mine are set to switch off after 2 hours of inactivity. Control Panel --> Power Options --> Turn off Hard Disks. It does take longer to respond from this state but thats to be expected. If your disks are always hot and running at constant temperature then you probably haven't set this option.

Statbar says Im currently using 452Mb of 768MB Total RAM, so I doubt thats a problem. The one limiting factor is that Im running 512Mb PC2700 generic RAM with 256Mb PC3700 OCZ EL Gold RAM so Im limited to PC2700 speeds. Additionally all my drives are at least 80% full which means with a 1Mb connection running 24/7 means defragmentation occurs more than Id like.

 

[cybotto]

Just realized that indexing service is disabled on C: drive and enabled on all others. All applications temp files and swap files are on C:. Everything else on other drives, projetcs, images, bla bla bla on others. There are no personal files on C.

Can vaguely remember that it made a difference with that set-up.

That power option are kind off ... What is when sratch disk is suddenly needed when editing video? I don't trust M$ too much. Anybody knows if that hypernate option is working fine now?

 

[Mr_Nice]

If It Ain't broke don't fix it

 

[poet]

Indexing could perhaps gain you a little performance but if it functions as designed it won't do anything unless your machine is idling. Unless you've got a specific reason (like it's a laptop) it's utterly meaningless. It will cost you several minutes per search. I'd just (apt-)get myself a real operating system.

 

[dlx1]

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