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Here is a guide to increase gaming performance on XP by up to 20%. It worked for me, hop efully it'll work for you. http://forums.guide2games.org/index.php?showtopic=2716 quote content of link go to control pannel user accounts...now create one called gaming...CONGRATES!!! you've made a "gaming" profile... now that your in that profile, take out the background and put a boring solid bl ue one that they have in there...right click on my computer, choose advanced>vis ual effects and then click on adjust for best performance. take away all of the apps taht shouldn't be running... and here's some other slightly more advanced tips.. To increase system performance Right click my computer. Click properties. Click advanced. Click settings (under performance). Click Adjust for best performance. Scroll to the bottom and check the last one "use visual styles on windows and bu ttons". How to disable XP's -crud- built in CD Burner Click the start button. Select Run. Type services.msc and click ok. Go to IMAPI CD-Burning Com Services open it and click on start up type, change t o "Disabled". These Settings will fine tune your systems memory You need at least 256MB of ram to do this: Go to start\run\regedit -and then to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Mana gement 1.DisablePagingExecutive -double click it and in the decimal put a 1 - this allo ws 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 and name it IOPageLockLimit - double click it and set the v alue 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 yo ur disckcache. Reboot Unable to delete from Avi files from HD

XP holds files in it's memory even after you have closed the application using t hem making it impossible to delete them from your harddrive. To fix this: Start -> Run -> Regedit Find the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\ .avi\shellex\PropertyHandler\ directory and delete the "DEFAULT" key. Tweak The Swap File For Users with 256 MB RAM or more this tweak will boost their Windows- and GamePerformance. 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. There in your System.ini you have to add "ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1" under th e 386enh section. 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 cor porate network, the following services are ones that I safely disable thereby fr eeing up memory but check what each one does first to make sure your not using i t for something: Go to Run and type services.msc, right click on each service, properties and cho ose disable. Alerter Application Layer Gateway Service, 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 Speed Up The File System NTFS is a great file system, but its feature-set comes at a slight cost in perfo rmance. You can negate this a little with the following tips: * By default NTFS will automatically update timestamps whenever a directory is t raversed. This isn't a necessary feature, and it slows down large volumes. Disab le it by going to Run and type regedit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\ Control\FileSystem and set 'Disable NTFSLastAccessUpdate' to 1. * NTFS about lowing n grow uses disparate master file control tables to store filesystem information your drives. Over time these core MFT files grow and become fragmented, s down all accesses to the drive. By setting aside a little space, MFT's ca without becoming fragmented.

In the same key where you disabled the last access feature creat a new DWORD val ue called 'NtfsMftZoneReservation' and set it to 2. Disable DLL Caching Windows Explorer caches DLLs (Dynamic-Link Libraries) in memory for a period of time after the application using them has been closed. This can be an inefficien t use of memory. 1. Find the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\E xplorer]. 2. Create a new DWORD sub-key named 'AlwaysUnloadDLL' and set the default value to equal '1' to disable Windows caching the DLL in memory. 3. Restart Windows for the change to take effect. Tweak The Prefetch 1. Run "Regedit" 2. Goto [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\ Control\Session Manager\Me mory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnablePrefetcher] 3. Set the value to either 0-Disable, 1-App launch prefetch, 2-Boot Prefetch, 3Both ("3" is recommended). 4. Reboot. It will decrease the boot time but double and increase the performance of your X P. SpeedUp Your Connection By 20% (Cable Users Only) 1.Log on as "Administrator". 2. Run - gpedit.msc

3. Expand the "Local Computer Policy" branch. 4. Then expand the "Administrative Templates" branch. 5. Expand the "Network" branch. 6. Highlight the "QoS Packet Scheduler" in left pane. 7. In the right window pane double-click the "Limit Reservable Bandwidth" settin g. 8. On the settings tab check the "Enabled" item. 9. Change "Bandwidth limit %" to read 0. 10. Then go to your Network connections Start=>Control Panel>Network & Internet connections>Network Connections and right-click on your connection. Then under t he General or the Networking tab, (where it lists your protocols) make sure QoS packet scheduler is enabled. It may take effect immediately on some systems. To be sure, just re-boot. maybe I should put something in here about doing it at your own risk