Great Ways To Speed Windows XP Up

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Disk Cleanup:

This is a great way to speed up your windows xp computer, it's free and the tool is already installed on your computer. As you probably already know computers slow down over time and get clogged up. So a great way to un-clog your computer and keep it healthy is to do a Disk Cleanup.

Check out this article to see how to do this: http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/maintenance/speed.aspx

Disk Fragmentation:

Due to the way hard-disks work, it's important to do disk defragmentation. It's a long word but all it does is piece back your computers files so they can be used in a more efficient way - thus improving your systems over all performance.

Check out this article on Microsoft's website: http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/maintenance/speed.aspx

Turn Off Disk-indexing

Yet another way to speed up your computer is by disabling disk-indexing and installing GoogleDesktop which is a much faster search tool and has some other handy features.

To disable disk-indexing go to My Computer, right-click on your hard drive and select "Properties." A new box will pop up, and at the bottom right above the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons there will be a check box right beside those words "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching." Uncheck that box, then click "OK."

Speed Windows XP Up

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Are you frustrated at your slow computer? Well if you want to repair your slow computer, there are quite a few things you can do:

Clean Your Desktop And Speed Windows XP Up
If there are lots of files and folders on your desktop you can easily speed up your computer by deleting unneccasary ones or put your files in the "My Documents" folder. If you have lots of files, you can put them in separate folders. For the more frequently used files, create shortcuts on your desktop for easy access. By doing this you can easily speed up your computer.

Speed Up Your Windows XP Computer By Scanning And Fixing Your Windows System Files
This is a good way on how speed up windows xp in particular. The windows system is consisted of groups of program files that work together to run your PC. All programs such as word processors, email and internet browsers are controlled by these system program files. Over time, these system program files may become corrupt and damaged causing your windows xp computer to slow down.

To scan your windows system files for errors, you must use the SFC (system file check). To use the SFC, follow these steps:

1. Close any open programs on your Desktop
2. Click on the Start button
3. Click Run
4. Type this command in the Run box: SFC /SCANNOW
5. Click the "OK" button

Is your computer still running slow? Then there may be a more serious problem hindering your system's performance. 85% of most slow PCs are associated with a damaged windows registry. To speed up your windows xp computer, you will need to fix your windows registry.

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