BOOSTING Your XP Performance

These Settings will fine tune your systems memory

You need at least 256MB of ram to do this:

Go to start click on run and type regedit -and then Browse to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

1.) DisablePagingExecutive -double click on it and in the decimal put a 1 - this allows XP to keep data in memory now instead of paging sections of ram to harddrive yeilds faster performance.

2.LargeSystemCache- double click it and change the decimal to 1 -this allows XP Kernal to Run in memory and improves system performance a lot.

3.Create a new dword in same location where you found DisablePagingExecution and LargeSystemCache Dwork's and name it IOPageLockLimit - double click it and set the value in hex - 4000 if you have 128MB of ram or set it to 10000 if you have 256MB set it to 40000 if you have more than 512MB of ram -this tweak will speed up your disckcache.

Reboot

Tweak The Swap File

For Users with 256 MB RAM or more this tweak will boost their Windows- and Game-Performance.
What it does: It tells Windows not to use any Swap File until there is really no more free RAM left.

Open the System Configuration Utility by typing msconfig.exe in the RUN command on Startmenu. There in your System.ini you have to add ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 under the 386enh section by clicking on new button at right.

Restart your Windows and enjoy better Game performance

Disable Services

XP Pro runs a lot of services by default that are pointless if your not on a corporate network, the following services are ones that I safely disable thereby freeing up memory but check what each one does first to make sure your not using it for something:

Go to Run and type services.msc, right click on each service, properties and choose disable.

• Alerter
  Application Management
  Automatic Updates
  Background Intelligent Transfer
  Clipbook
  Distributed Link Tracking Client
  Distributed Transaction Coordinater
  Error Reporting Service
  Fast User Switching Compatibility
  IMAPI CD-Burning
  Indexing Service
  IPSEC Services
  Messenger
  Net Logon
  Net Meeting
  Remote Desktop Sharing
  Network DDE
  Network DDE DSDM
  Portable Media Serial Number
  Remote Desktop Help Session Manager
  Remote Registry
  Secondary Logon
  Smartcard
  SSDP Discovery Service
  Telnet
  Themes
  Uninterruptible Power Supply
  Universal Plug and Play Device Host
  Upload Manager
  Webclient
  Wireless Zero Configuration
  WMI Performance Adaptor
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Speed Up The File System

NTFS is a great file system, but its feature-set comes at a slight cost in performance. You can negate this a little with the following tips:

* By default NTFS will automatically update timestamps whenever a directory is traversed. This isn't a necessary feature, and it slows down large volumes. Disable it by going to Run and type regedit:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem and set 'DisableNTFSLastAccessUpdate' to 1.

* NTFS uses disparate master file control tables to store filesystem information about your drives. Over time these core MFT files grow and become fragmented, slowing down all accesses to the drive. By setting aside a little space, MFT's can grow without becoming fragmented.

In the same key where you disabled the last access feature create a new DWORD value called 'NtfsMftZoneReservation' and set it to 2.