tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8317914136475402040.post1495631532072113262..comments2023-11-03T01:32:47.018-07:00Comments on anything and nothing: The top list of listsenqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11720416368872890589noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8317914136475402040.post-32935416829825162362007-01-10T23:05:00.000-08:002007-01-10T23:05:00.000-08:00The "23 Ways To Speed WinXP Without Defrag" articl...The "23 Ways To Speed WinXP Without Defrag" article is full of multiple Myths and bad information that will actually SLOW DOWN you system:<br /><br />http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html<br /><br />Task Scheduler Service DO NOT EVER DISABLE THIS! Doing so will disable Windows XP Prefetching and cripple your boot and application startup times.<br /><br />Empty the Windows 'Prefetch' folder 150% wrong. That is not how Windows Prefetching works. Nothing is preloaded at startup, these files are there as a REFERENCE to optimally load applications to RAM. Only ONE Prefetch Trace file is Referenced at Windows startup = NTOSBOOT-B00DFAAD.P. The Prefetch folder is self cleaning at 128 entries and never should be cleaned. Unused prefetch files do nothing but take up a ridiculously small amount of disk space.<br /><br />Optimize Your 'Pagefile' Just leave it at system managed.<br /><br />Force Windows to unload DLLs - Myth, this does nothing in XP.<br /><br />Speed up shutdown times - This is set to 0 by default. Setting this to 1 will cause Windows to take LONGER to shut down!Andrew Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17215619518578061558noreply@blogger.com