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Tagged with performance windows-xp
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How can I log my hard drive activity by program?
I am using Windows XP and am looking for a utility that can tell me the percentage of hard drive activity a program is using.
Basically, I'm looking for something like Task Manager and its ability ...
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if we do not use any wallpaper on desktop will it increase performance of windows?
if we do not use any wallpaper on desktop will it increase performance of windows?
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Setting process priority everytime it is launched?
My work computer experiences a lot of slowdown, so I want to do what I can to make sure the stuff I need to be response actually is responsive. For example, I run Pidgin, which loads everytime I boot....
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Why does it sometimes take a long time for windows to shutdown?
I'm not sure if this is a programming question exactly, but it does affect my work quite a bit. I have a project I'm working on where a program has to perform certain tasks on startup. The project ...
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what Steps you follow and recommend to make windows xp work faster?
after some months from running my windows xp i feel its getting old and slower.
i always hear about tools and applications that can make the windows faster, such as registry cleaners, but i am always ...
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Very long boot up process?
Very strange boot up process that took literally 5~6 minutes. Other than the boot up, the PC works perfectly fine.
Things I have tried:
CHKDSK (No errors)
Reset BIOS (HDD 1st)
Defrag
Link to video ...
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Making Windows XP run on 256MB of RAM
I have a Windows XP system which has only 256 MB of ram, and unfortunately upgrading the RAM is not an option (it needs DDR, a DDR2 chip didn't fit and I'm not in town long enough to order one online)....
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automate system maintenance
How do I automate system maintenance?
I'm using tune up utilities 2010, portable spybot, malware bytes, ad-aware, c-cleaner, and avast free antivirus.
I'm using windows xp.
Please tell me, how can I ...
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Does compressing files in XP slow things down?
I frequently run the Disk Cleanup tool and let it compress old files. However, one of the directories it compressed, full of small icon images, is terribly slow. Is this a result of the compression or ...
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Slow Browsing/Direct Download, but Fast Bittorrent Download
I'm using Windows XP SP2. I have a 1 MB connection via a SpeedTouch 585, and my internet speed registers at 0.3 MB, with a maximum download of 30kbps. Not to mention a terrible ping at 500-1500. On ...
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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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Fairly new laptop hard drive extremely slow
I installed a new drive in this customer's laptop about two months ago. Brand new WD1200BEVE PATA drive. The machine worked well until about a week ago. She told me it was running extremely slow, and ...
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What can I turn off on windows XP to free up memory without breaking everything
I seem to have a lot of services that start up on windows, many of which I have no use of (to my knowledge). are there any services which are on by default which I won't really miss and which will ...
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What things should I run daily, weekly, monthly on my Windows machine?
What things should I run daily, weekly, monthly on my Windows XP machine?
De fragmentation
Scan-disk
Full system scan
Disk clean up
Trojan checker
malware remover
or any other thing...
And should I ...
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