forumspax.blogg.se - How to change your windows xp startup screen appearance and sound

Turn off the screen saver in Control Panel - Display - Screen Saver.To speed up screen redraws, set colour depth to 16 bits in Control Panel - Display - Settings.Turn off things like "Show window contents while dragging". Disable visual effects in Control Panel - Display - Appearance - Effects.Stop unnecessary apps from running on boot-up by removing their shortcuts from your Start Menu Startup folder.The general procedure is to right-click and uncheck settings like "load at startup" and "run in background". Turn off any you do not need, as they take up memory and resources, as well as increasing boot time.

Check all of the running applications in your System Tray.For example, make all of the Service changes at once, and then reboot before making other changes. It is best to reboot after a series of changes to clean the slate of any system components that may be running.Any other unused devices can also be disabled in the BIOS if it lets you.

If you don't use your parallel port, then disable this.

If you don't use your motherboard USB, then disable this.

If you don't use your COM ports, then disable these and this will give you two extra IRQ's.

I have gathered the following Windows XP tweaking points from 3 different sources (direct links are at the bottom) and before implementing them I wanted to run them by you all to see if some are not necessary (or good) and if there are others that are not covered here. Sorry in advance for the long post, but I thought it might be less annoying if I put all these points in a single email rather than ask them separately.