Post Your Windows Tricks & Shortcuts
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equk
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name='mrapoc' said:Anybody wanna comment on stuff to disable etc.?
My windows home is soooooo laggy at times and ive disabled all startup programs i dont need
I wrote an article earlier:
Windows XP Registry Tweaks
Wrote it ages ago on my website, but thought I'd post it here aswell.
Really for laggy Windows doing what ^^^^ he said gets most of your processes down. Hit cntrl+alt+delete and go to processes tab. If you have anything over 30 and you dont have 2gig of ram it will be laggy. I myself, have 19 on internet drive, 13 on games drive.
You can do his registry thing (for services) or what i said to take off a bunch of services which in turn decreases your processes. Also, i recomend going to www.hijackthis.de and DLing their little program to get rid of a bunch of start items and possible threats in your bootup. (usualy gets rid of malware and spyware).
My other trick is plain and simple, disable themes and extra nonsense from windows.
Right click My Computer/ properties/ advanced/ performance settings tab/ disable all the nice little stuff Windows gives you (visual effects).
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For people with LOW RAM or just dont care for that stuff.
You can do his registry thing (for services) or what i said to take off a bunch of services which in turn decreases your processes. Also, i recomend going to www.hijackthis.de and DLing their little program to get rid of a bunch of start items and possible threats in your bootup. (usualy gets rid of malware and spyware).
My other trick is plain and simple, disable themes and extra nonsense from windows.
Right click My Computer/ properties/ advanced/ performance settings tab/ disable all the nice little stuff Windows gives you (visual effects).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
For people with LOW RAM or just dont care for that stuff.
equk
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name='PP Mguire' said:
Would work until your next reboot when they initialise again.
name='PP Mguire' said:
That's a bit of a generalisation is it not? surely it depends on the memory the processes use
You shouldn't require 2gb of RAM to run windows xp tbh.
If you want to disable programs from starting, you can use msconfig, altho I expect literally everyone on this forum would know that
:worship: I like that one!! @ Hyper
My dad has 42 processes and a gig of ram and its laggy. When i got rid of all the extra junk taking up RAM it was fine again. Most of your Windows laggyness (or slowness) comes from extra crap running in the background. If he means lag by video lag then its video card. I doubt thats the case.
My dad has 42 processes and a gig of ram and its laggy. When i got rid of all the extra junk taking up RAM it was fine again. Most of your Windows laggyness (or slowness) comes from extra crap running in the background. If he means lag by video lag then its video card. I doubt thats the case.
Sticky Mick
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P*ssed off with having to re-arrange all the desktop icons after installing new video card drivers or changing res?
Try this Restore Desktop. Used to use it on my Win98 rig and re-discovered it the other day
Try this Restore Desktop. Used to use it on my Win98 rig and re-discovered it the other day
name='Sticky Mick' said:P*ssed off with having to re-arrange all the desktop icons after installing new video card drivers or changing res?
Try this Restore Desktop. Used to use it on my Win98 rig and re-discovered it the other day
nice one, just swapped a gfx today and had to sort them out again
