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Speeding up Windows XP

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Ways I optimised my computer on Saturday:

  1. Enabled Windows XP Prefetch only for my boot files instead of all files (using MajorGeek’s Prefetch Clean and Control)
  2. Disabled all unnecessary Windows XP services (using the Elder Geek’s guide)
  3. Switched from Trillian to Miranda, which uses less memory, plus allows me to put up a nice picture of Coconut as my background.

Things seem good - certainly my hard drive seems to be accessed less, which indicates in my mind that there’s less call for virtual memory. 256 MB of RAM doesn’t go as far these days as it used to…