This tutorial is meant for increasing the performance of Windows XP, either it can be a fresh installation or an older windows.
1.) Following is a registry file containing a few registry modifications, which are completely safe and can increase the performance of Windows. Just download the attached ZIP file, extract it and then run the file:
Restore Default Settings (Use this file if you want to restore default Windows settings)
2.) Right-click on Desktop and select Properties, Now in the new window goto Appearance tab and click on Effects button. Now in the new opened window uncheck the following options:
a.) Use the following transition effect for menus & tooltips.
b.) Show shadows under menus.
3.) Right-click on My Computer icon on Desktop and select Properties (or press <WIN> key + <Pause/Break> key), now goto Advanced tab in new window and click on Settings button in Performance section.
Now disable all unnecessary options in Visual Effects tab, you can remain following options enabled according to your requirements:
a.) Show window contents while dragging.
b.) Smooth edges of screen fonts.
c.) Use common tasks in folders (If you use the left side pane in My computer)
d.) Use drop shadows on icon labels on the desktop. (to make the desktop icons label transparent.)
e.) Use visual styles on windows and buttons. (If you use XP themes.)
4.) Open Tools -> Folder Options and click on View tab:
Now uncheck following options:
a.) Automatically search for network folders & printers.
b.) Display file size information in folder tips.
c.) Display simple folder view in Explorer's Folders list.
d.) Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color.
e.) Show pop-up description for folder and desktop icons.
f.) Use simple file sharing.
Other options don't affect the system performance. You can enable/disable them according to your requirements.
5.) Right-click on My Computer icon on Desktop and select Manage (You can also open it by typing services.msc in RUN and press Enter). Now goto Services & Applications -> Services. Here you can set a few unnecessary services to Manual, which will not start with windows and will decrease the boot time and will increase system performance. Please follow the following tutorial to know about which services can be safely set to MANUAL:
Windows XP Services that can be Safely set to MANUAL
6.) Type msconfig in RUN and press Enter. Now goto Startup tab and deselect the unnecessary entries, which you don't want to start automatically with Windows, e.g. you can disable VGA driver utility, Sound Card utility, etc to speed up the startup time and to increase system performance.
7.) Open Sound & Audio Devices in Control Panel (or type mmsys.cpl in RUN), goto Sounds tab and select No Sounds in Sound Scheme section. Or you can remain some of your favorite sounds but set Exit Windows, Start Windows, Windows Logoff, Windows Logon to (None).
8.) For more options/tips-n-tricks, you can use TweakUI, Tuneup Utilities 2006 and gpedit.msc (Windows XP Professional built-in tool).
This article was posted in Windows XP.
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Moonis
hi,
can you tell how to revert back to original settings done by the registry
VG
^^ Paste following code in Notepad ans then save it with name "vishal.reg" (including quotes). Then run the file and your settings will be reverted back to original:
Maddy
thanx buddy for all information it is superb but can you plz teach me all you have in your superb mind
VG
^^ Thanks for your kind words. You can go through all the tuts mentioned in various sections.
Maddy
Thanx for Reply VG
I become your fan really yaar
you know something i had never meet any genius everbefore
and you know i had gone through your one more tut. thats to change the icons and cursors bitmap and all the coding something
its really a humber request to you can you plz tell me in very expended form and in easy language actually i m not too much old with computers but now i wanna become like you
really from my heart
i did few experiments on my computer
because of which a virus attact occured and my run command disapeared
plz tell me how i will get it back plzplzpz i m waiting for your reply thankyou
VG
^^ Thank you so much for your kind words. That really means a lot for me.
Regarding to your virus problem, I have replied in other topic.
Guntraitor
gOod afternoOn, wizard
uHm, ive been a fan of yOurs since i dOwnloaded qUite a nUmber oF yOur themes aNd vIsual sTyles.. uHm, can i ask if yOu used an application wHere in yOur Vista ultimate screenshot u had a "small meter indicator" under your hard drives? i mean the bar found under your hard drive's icon which indicated the space left in ur drive.. kINda looked like a progress bar or sumthing..
its just cool to have that under ur drive icon..
thank u so much.
godbless.
VG
^^ Thanks for the kind words.
You can get that utility here:
Link
BeeeeexD
Hey Vishal, is says that XP_Reg_Codes.reg is not a valid win32 application. what am i missing here?
BeeeeexD
still cant merge .reg files on my registry. What's wrong?