Display performance (Optional) Don’t use a desktop picture Minimize the number of icons on your desktop Disable themes What can we do about it? OS Optimization Reducing boot time Reducing shutdown time System resource optimization Clearing Temp & History Files Resource Performance Tuning Disk Network Memory Application Performance Tuning Optimizing Internet Explorer Optimizing application execution Cool Windows XP add-ons & tools įrom the “duh” file Things that should be looked into before anything else Current drivers Updated BIOS firmware Updated adapter drivers Disk considerations Always use NTFS Never use FAT32.
Why did it get slow? Non-optimal or default configuration Network designed for generic scenarios Video & disk drivers installed are usually generic Compatibility forever! Higher average number of processes Growth in average process count due to installations SVCHOST.EXE processes growth Conflicting execution threads Serial requests kill performance Escalating bottlenecks Max disk efficiency is 50% used or less Every network I/O filter slows performance Memory usage at 80% always swaps system Immediate performance > Operational efficiency Memory Disk Regedit.exe, Services.msc, Resource Kit tools 3 rd party tools Windows for the Jedi: Optimizing Windows XP Tuning the performance of your Windows XP Professional workstationįorward “ I don’t feel in control of Windows” Reminisce about the days of… AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, HIMEM.SYS, EMM386.SYS, SMARTDRV.EXE WIN.INI, SYSTEM.INI QEMM, ODI drivers, NDIS drivers Windows for Workgroups 3.11 provided geeky levels of tweaking DOS, TCP/IP, INI files It’s all there.