25 ways to speed windows not only defragment

Since defragging the disk won't do much to improve Windows XP performance, here are 25 suggestions that will. 

Each can enhance the performance and reliability of your customers' PCs. Best of all, most of them will cost you nothing.

1.) To decrease a system's boot time and increase system performance, use the money you save by not buying defragmentation software -- the built-in Windows defragmenter works just fine -- and instead equip the computer with an Ultra-133 or Serial ATA hard drive with 8-MB cache buffer.

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How to Modify Settings to Improve Performance of windows

Windows XP uses processor time to handle system performance according to default settings, which can be adjusted for your computing needs.

Also, settings that govern visual effects enhance the appearance of the Windows XP interface, but can slow down performance.
You can fine–tune settings in Windows XP Professional to improve performance:

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Performance Increase Through My Computer

Easy enough tweak to usually find out about it on your own, but still, some of us still don't find it right away. So here it is:

Start > right-click on My Computer and select Properties.

Click on the "Advanced" tab.

See the "Performance" section? Click "Settings".

Disable the following:

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Turn Off System Restore to Save Space

By default, Windows XP keeps a backup of system files in the System Volume Information folder. This can eat up valuable space on your hard drive.
If you don't want Windows to back up your system files:

Open the Control Panel.

Double-click on System.

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Correcting System Hang at Startup

If your system hangs about 2 or 3 minutes at startup, where you can't access the Start
button or theTaskbar, it may be due to one specific service (Background Intelligent Transfer) running in the background. Microsoft put out a patch for this but it didn't
work for me.

Here's what you do 

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Do Not Highlight Newly Installed Programs

Tired of that annoying little window that pops up to tell you that new software is installed? If it gets in the way when you’re logging off, turn it off completely. To do this:

Click Start, right-click at the top of the Start menu where your name is displayed, and then click Properties.

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Enable disable automatic updates in windows - All about windows updates

How to Turn On Automatic Updates

Click Start , click Control Panel , and then double-click System.

Click the Automatic Updates tab, and then click one of the following options:

- Download the updates automatically and notify me when they are ready to be installed. (This is the default setting.)

- Notify me before downloading any updates and notify me again before installing them on my computer. 

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Using the Ultimate Configuration Tool - the group policy editor

One of the most full featured Windows XP configuration tools available is hidden right there in your system, but most people don't even know it exists.
It's called the Local Group Policy Editor, or gpedit for short. It just like old Poledit.exe.

To start this editor:

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Speeding Up Internet Searches

When you go to a web site, the first thing that happens is that a query goes out to the DNS server for IP address of the web site.

In order to eliminate this query, you can simply add the IP address and web name into the HOSTS file in the Windows directory.

To find the IP address, just PING the web name (ping www.microsoft.com) For example, Microsoft would be:

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Speed Up Your Hard with NTFS.

Windows XP offers NTFS hard drive configuration. This offers better compression,
security and encryption. However, this conversion from FAT to NTFS standard requires
a bit more space on your hard drive nevertheless you will be reward with a faster drive.

You can easily switch to this system by following directions below:

1. Click Start

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Fix a Slow Internet Connection

Why is your internet connection speed so slow?

Because you have not been nice to your bandwidth

There are number of simple and easy ways to speed up your PC on the net. Most of these solutions will cost you absolutely nothing. So, before you invest in a program that will speed up your internet access, take the time to perform a few maintenance tips to speed up your PC on the net.

The most important thing to remember is that your bandwidth has a limit. You paid for
this limitation when you signed up to your internet service provider. So, treat your
bandwidth as a precious commodity.

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disable unwanted sservices to speed up your boot time and free resources

Services You Can Disable

There are quite a few services you can disable from starting automatically.

This would be to speed up your boot time and free resources.

They are only suggestions so I suggestion you read the description of each one when you run Services and that you turn them off one at a time.

Some possibilities are:

Alerter - Sends alert messages to specified users that are connected to the server computer.

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