5 Ways to Speed Up Windows XP

How to Speed Up Windows XP

Have you recently noticed the speed of your Windows XP system? Is your system working slowly? Does your Windows XP system taking a long time to start-up and shutdown? It is not always recommended for a hardware upgrade to speed up Windows XP. Then here are some tweaks to speed up Windows XP. When the system is booted, a lot of changes take place in windows registry and many program entries are loaded into it.

Many programs run at startup and continue to run till the system is shutdown. Whenever new Programs or software are installed, their entries are updated in Windows registry. If the software is not uninstalled properly, it leads to the redundant data in the Windows registry called registry errors or invalid entries. This also is the main reason in fragmentation of registry. Many malwares also add unnecessary entries into the registry. These registry errors decrease the Speed of Windows XP.

Then what are the ways to Speed up Windows XP?

1. Disk cleanup Tool helps you free up space on the hard-disk. It performs the following.

• Removes temporary Internet files.
• Removes Windows temporary files.
• Empty recycle bin.
• Removes downloaded program files.
• Removes installed program that is no longer in use.

2. Cleanup Windows Registry (Highly Recommended)

The registry grows by every program or software you install and these entries stay even when the program is uninstalled. The system becomes very slow as it searches for programs that do not exist. So, it is very important cleanup the Windows registry in order to Speed up the Windows XP. But this cannot be done manually. Any unwanted changes to the registry may lead to non-functioning of some programs or a system crash. So for an overall speed up of the Windows XP, a Registry cleaner software/ PC Optimizer tool is very much necessary. This tool also perform some tweaks like Registry de-fragmentation, memory tweaker, junk files cleaner etc which cannot be performed manually. Most of the Registry cleaner tools which are available in the market are Sub-Standard and they are incapable to speed up the system. . You can download the free trial of this program and see the difference for yourself. The download link is provided at the end of this article.

3. Disable Indexing services

Indexing process indexes and updates the list of all files that are on your system so that searching for a file is faster. But it takes a large amount of memory and is unnecessary.

– Go to Start
– Control panel
– Add or Remove programs
– Add or Remove components
– Uncheck Indexing services
– Click Next

4. Improve Startup time

To stop the unnecessary programs to run at startup, follow these instructions.

– Click on Start
– Click on Run
– Type in “msconfig” click Ok
– Click on Startup tab
– Uncheck every item that is not needed. Do not Uncheck Anti-Virus or Anti-Spyware software.
– Restart the system when prompted.

5. Perform Disk De-fragmentation as the response time to search for a fragmented file is more and it decreases the speed of Windows XP. Disk De-fragmentation speeds up access time.