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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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Does changing Windows XP theme to classic enhance performance?
A lot of my colleagues and friends who are still using Windows XP use the Windows Classic theme (i.e. the Win98-like theme, unlike the XP theme). Some of them just like it, but some others say that ...
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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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Can dual monitors make my PC slower?
I've noticed my PC (win-xp) seems to be running slower. (e.g., I'm getting jitter when watching video)
Recently, I upgraded a monitor (larger) and expanded the size of the desktop to take advantage ...
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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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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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Why is my browser using so much memory?
I've recently had problems with Firefox running very slowly when I have many tabs open; say 20 tabs. My whole system would slow down.
I decided to give Google Chrome a try, and it started out fine. ...
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How do I find out which processes are causing the most disk activity?
I am hoping to find a way to do more performance monitoring--specifically, I hope that monitoring disk activity on a per-process basis will help me decide which programs are causing the most trouble (...
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Which windows XP services can I disable without major consequence? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What Windows services can I safely disable?
I want to disable some Windows XP services to make PC run faster.
I am not going to be using the PC for anything complex, but will ...
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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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How can you figure out where the bottleneck on your PC is (CPU, HD, RAM) so you know what to get "more of" on the next PC?
I'm getting a new PC soon and I've been looking at CPU and RAM options then realized that maybe my HD is my bottleneck.
Is there an easy way to figure out which component is the biggest bottleneck?
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Built-in RAM disk solution for Windows XP
I remember that back in the "good old days" of MSDOS a RAM disk driver was bundled with the "OS" and by doing some simple settings it was possible to configure it.
Does Microsoft still supply this ...
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Why is ccmexec thrashing my disk?
I run continously run Serious Samurize to show graphs of CPU, disk and network usage. Occasionally I see that my E: drive (a hard disk with no system files on it, only data) is thrashing away when it ...
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Lightweight virus scan for win XP [closed]
I have an older machine (athlon 1500+, 1.5Gb RAM) running XP on which I not currently running an on access virus scanner. I do scheduled scans with clamwin and malware bytes. I would like to find a ...
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