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VMWare Player - increase 3D performance on XP guest
Ive set up a Windows XP (SP2) Guest machine.
I want to use it to play some old games. But here is the problem:
3D works baaaaaad. Most of the time I get only one to five fps.
And this in games created ...
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Speed Up Windows - Disable Services
In 2007 to 2009 there was an amazing peace of software for windows xp (but it worked perfectly for windows 7 as well) that used to display all the services running on a computer, what it was for and ...
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More computing bang for your buck on Linux? [closed]
I have both a Linux box (running Debian) and a powerful Windows desktop running XP. At work I have a Windows 8 machine.
I notice that my Linux box, even though it is just a little Zotac seems to ...
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File copying much slower than rated Firewire speed
While copying a lot of files to an external hard drive using Firewire I notice that the copy speed is a lot slower than the Firewire data transfer rate. The supposed transfer rate for Firewire 400 is ...
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Windows XP (32-bit) system with 8GB RAM, will I still get dual-channel benefit?
I am running a legacy Windows XP 32-bit PC (not for internet use of course). It has 2x4GB RAM which operates in dual-channel mode.
Obviously Windows XP can only use 4GB RAM. One could argue the ...
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How can I improve the performance of my audio software?
I am running OtsAV on Windows XP. The way it works is by buffering a small amount of data from the hard drive just before it needs to play it. It used to give flawless sound no matter what else was ...
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Available physical memory, XP
I installed a Windows XP x86 on my PC. But when I open the system information window in the System Summary tab, in the right-hand pane and at bottom the following are written:
Total Physical memory ...
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Is 1GB RAM so little?
I recently upgraded my old computer from Windows XP to Windows 7, and my computer became unbelievably slow. This is the hardware:
Intel Pentium 4, 3.2 GHz
1GB RAM
Radeon X800 GTO
By unbelievably ...
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Too slow PC for web browsing?
There is a very peculiar problem I've seen on my cousin's PC and I am not 100% sure what's causing that.
The problem is, that when browsing every bigger page (with multiple pictures and such) takes ...
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System is slow, which files to delete?
My system has Windows XP installed with 2 GB RAM, and it has been working OK, but since 3 days ago it hangs a lot. I tried deleting the temp (%temp%) files manually, and also used disk cleanup, and ...
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How to stress the Windows XP kernel?
We have intermittant problems with writing DVDs where the writing process fails. We suspect that the problem is happening when the DVD driver switches from DMA mode to PIO mode and then in this mode ...
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Can Googleupdate.exe cause delays when shutting down in Windows?
I have a computer running Windows XP which hangs in "windows is shutting down" for around two minutes. After running the Event Viewer, I've discovered that during this time, an error is recorded as a ...
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Hard drive dying? One CPU core runs at 50% but System Idle Process at 99%
I think I have a hard drive or video card dying in my HTPC. It's a dual core CPU and one processor is almost always at 100% usage, but processes are all nil, System Idle Process is at 99%
It's a ...
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Fix slowness of PC
I know there are other topics about that, but they don't quite solve my problem.
So the PC is not my personal, so I don't really know how was it treated, what has been installed/uninstalled and the ...
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Low bandwidth only on Windows XP
Hi I own really old PC and I've 10Mbps/1Mbps Plan. Internet is distibuted with router over whole house.
The old PC uses 802.11b (up to 11Mbit/s download) Wifi card and has Windows XP+SP3 installed. ...
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XP freezes every second
I'm experiencing a problem where XP freezes completely for a fraction of a second, every second. The mouse doesn't update, music stops, video stops - and then suddenly resumes.
I can't see anything ...
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Increase page file or buy RAM?
I've a 10+ year old XP PC which surprisingly still works however one of the 256MB RAM finally died. Now I am left with just 256MB. As expected the PC became slower however when I tried to increase the ...
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Why are start-up times faster on Windows 7 than on XP? [closed]
Reading a hotter question Why are start-up times faster on Windows 8? There is a great answer there by ClickUpvote, which shows some design differences that makes 8 faster:
Difference between win7 ...
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Merging multiple log files to one single log file
I decided to monitor a remote computer (XP SP3) by gathering information with a performance monitor application.
After five days, I stopped monitoring and had 6 log files created by Perfmon.
My ...
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Is my large Windows folder slowing down my machine?
I have a problem with my Windows installation running very slow and my Windows folder being too large. I thought that the problems are related.
My Windows folder is 17.4 GB
I have 1807 folders ...
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Soundtest works, but no other sounds and windows starts very slowly
So suddenly all sounds on my computer stopped working expect the sound test works, but when I go to control panel and audio it says there's no audio device. And audio players and audio on website ...
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Why is Windows 7 much slower than XP on the same machine? Can it be adjusted to be just as fast? [closed]
My computer has 2GB of RAM and a 2.00 GHz Core 2 Duo processor. I dual-boot Windows XP and Windows 7.
While I understand that Windows 7 has many improvements over XP architecturally, I just don't ...
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Chrome becomes very slow when switching tabs
During a heavy browsing session, Chrome can become very slow to switch to a tab that hasn't been opened in a while. I assume that it's switched the contents to disk and needs to reload it, but it can ...
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Why does Windows XP boots so slowly? [closed]
My system takes too much time to boot and even once it starts, it's not allowing any thing to do - not even responding to clicking the start button.
I don't want to reinstall Windows again. Any ...
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Long boot time (~15 minutes)
I recently formatted the drive and re-installed Windows XP. I now get a bar across the lower part of the screen during start up, like when recovering from hibernation, and it takes 15-17 minutes to ...
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Windows XP Professional SP3 system performance improvement with additional ram [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Will adding extra RAM in my computer speed it up?
I have a system with Windows XP professional 64 bit SP3 installed. It's main hardware is as follows
Motherboard: P5KPL-VM
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System Alerts are slow to draw
My PC is running pretty quickly and pretty responsively. The only one problem it seems to have is with system alerts (Message boxes, not tool-tips). Often, yet not always, they are slow to draw. The ...
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Are .fon (bitmap font) files needed in Windows XP?
I'm trying to make a minimal XP installation for low-end machines, and I want to remove anything that could slow the system down.
I've heard many fonts installed slow down the boot process, so I'd ...
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Page file becomes enormous
I have reinstalled winXP a few months ago on my 6 year old laptop with 512 mb of ram and 1.6 ghz celeron M processor.
Everything seems to run fine, I've fixed the overheating problem about a year ...
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Is having a wallpaper, desktop icons and auto-hide taskbar a waste of cpu resources? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
if we do not use any wallpaper on desktop will it increase performance of windows?
There was a time when PC magazines used to advise not having a wallpaper because it consumed ...
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