How to improve computer performance ?

Some following are 6 very useful things that help you to optimize your computer or improve your PC performance fast. Just apply these below mentioned things and you will be able to squeeze out some more juice out of the old thing!

1. Disable file indexing service - This is a small task that uses a great deal of RAM and induces much disk thrashing. Your system instantly becomes more responsive. To do that follow these step:
> Double click the My Computer icon
> Right-click on the C: Drive,
> Hit Properties.
> Now here Uncheck "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching."
> Apply changes to "C: sub-folders and files,"
> Click OK.

2. You should delete the constants of your Windows Prefetch folder every week - Windows Xp Upgrade software can "prefetch" portions of data and applications that are frequently loaded. This allows processes appear to start faster when requested the user. Over time, the prefetch folder overwhelms with references to files and applications no longer in use. Guess what happens? Windows XP wastes time and grinds to a halt by pre-loading obsolete data.

The prefetch folder resides on your local hard disk, under the Windows folder.
%systemroot%\prefetch
-or-
C:\windows\prefetch
Just go there and delete their all contents.

3. Try to set no picture on your Desktop. Your desktop background consumes a fair amount of memory and can slow the loading time of your system. It will improve optimization of your computer.

1) Right click on Desktop and select Properties
2) Select the Desktop tab
3) In the Background window select None
4) Click Ok


4. Some time you feel and noticed that every time you open My Computer to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers every time you open Windows Explorer.

To fix this and to increase browsing significantly:
1) Open My Computer
2) Click on Tools menu
3) Click on Folder Options
4) Click on the View tab.
5) Un-check the Automatically search for network folders and printers check box
6) Click Apply
7) Click Ok
8) Reboot your computer


5. Optimize Your Page-file - Windows XP sizes the page file to about 1.5X the amount of actual physical memory by default. While this is good for systems with smaller amounts of memory (under 512MB) it is unlikely that a typical XP desktop system will ever need 1.5 X 512MB or more of virtual memory. If you have less than 512MB of memory, leave the page file at its default size. If you have 512MB or more, change the ratio to 1:1 page file size to physical memory size.

1) Right click on My Computer and select Properties
2) Select the Advanced tab
3) Under Performance choose the Settings button
4) Select the Advanced tab again and under Virtual Memory select Change
5) Highlight the drive containing your page file and make the initial Size of the file the same as the Maximum Size of the file.

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