Cool Windows XP tips & tricks: performance

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How to speed up your PC: Display settings

By disabling unneeded visual effects, you can speed up your windows xp pretty much.

How to change display effects:

Go to control panel from the start menu
Open performance and maintenance
Choose adjust visual effects
In the window that appears, uncheck any effects that you don't consider necessary, or just choose "Let Windows choose what's best for my computer"
Hit OK and you're done!

Speeding up your XP: Disabling unwanted programs at startup

You probably need only half the programs that have been set to be loaded at startup. Having too many programs drastically slows down your startup. It's very easy to specify which ones you want to start automatically. It's wise to leave all the anti virus and system tools.

Here's what you need to do:

Go to Run from the Start menu
Open "msconfig" (without the quotes!) and click OK
In the windows that opens, choose the Startup tab
Make your choices by unchecking the programs you don't need to load at startup
Hit OK and restart your PC.
After starting a box appears. Check the option that the dialog box won't display at restart.

That's all!

Check back tomorrow for the next part, display settings.

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Software Review: TuneUp Utilities 2008

This is a very useful all-in-one computer performance and speed enhancing program. The interface is simple and easy to use, and it has basically everything you need to speed up your computer. It includes: defragging, registry cleaner, disc cleanup, repair wizard and much more. This definitely helped to speed up my pc and freed up a lot of hard disk space.

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