How To: Make Windows XP Faster and More Efficient

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In this quick tutorial, I will show you how to make your Windows XP computer faster using two tweaks. For both of these, right click on my computer and select properties. In the properties window, select advanced. From there select settings under performance. A new window will open up and this is were the two small tweaks change. For the fist one, stay in the visual effects tab and select custom. I would then suggest checking the following boxes: use visual styles on windows and buttons, use common tasks on folders, smooth edges of screen fonts, and show window's contents while dragging. Once you have selected the options you would like, click apply. For the next tweak, you go to advanced instead of visual effects. Select change under virtual memory. As an initial and maximum value, use double your memory, For example, I have 512 mb of ram, so my initial and maximum value would be 1024 mb or 1000 mb. For 1024 mb or 1 gb, it would be 2048 mb or 2000 mb.
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How To: Make Windows XP Faster and More Efficient

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  • thnx it IS faster ...

    thnx it IS faster now :P 5* for you :D

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  • i'm sorry... but ...

    i'm sorry... but that's just obvious

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  • it increasesd my ...

    it increasesd my computer speed..!!! and legos are awesome

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  • ye maybe all of us ...

    ye maybe all of us can and im 12 years old and i know alot about computers and i know a little coding

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  • Your pretty smart ...

    Your pretty smart for a kid, although I am one too, yah add me as a Friend and Maybe we can work together on a few things, I like your attitude to, theres nothing wrong with the Young! Bill Gates started in Highschool with Lab Buddies! Now he's retiring with enough money to live off his INTERERST AND GIVE AWAY A MILLION BUCKS A DAY FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE!

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  • thnx for posting... ...

    thnx for posting... have a nice time

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  • Frickin` 2 year old ...

    Frickin` 2 year old you sure know how to F**k up a computer...

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  • Look at the other ...

    Look at the other reviews, you are the only one complaining. Everyon else likes it and says it is helpful. Like I said before, there is nothing wrong with starting young. You thing Steve Jobs or Bill Gates waited long. The started with technology as soon as computers were at a consumer value. I am just getting starting as sonn as I can too.

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  • I think I ...

    I think I understand what your asking but I am not positive. The space available is your Hard drive space left. That doesn't matter for that step. Mine is 90074MB and is shown at 3:00. You have 10GB left on your Hard drive.
    Let me know if this helps or if you need anything else.

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  • wait...mines say ...

    wait...mines say that it has 10719 MB space available wat am i spose to do wit that??

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  • wow..

    wow..

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    baseballsbetter: That's you don't know S**t and are making changes without a clue as to why

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  • What is so bad ...

    What is so bad about posting a video and being young??? It is called the technology age and you better get used to it.

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  • shut the hell up ...

    shut the hell up and go play with your legos

    By vb6wiz [Affiliate User] 1215213634 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • holy dude my cpu is ...

    holy dude my cpu is faster than before!

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  • It is recommended ...

    It is recommended though there might not be much of a difference.

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  • After we apply ...

    After we apply these settings, do you recommend we restart our systems?

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  • hey thanks alot man

    hey thanks alot man

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  • What do you mean by ...

    What do you mean by "better." Like upgrade it hardware, upgrade the OS, what.
    I'll be glad to help if you be more specific

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  • hey nice video ...

    hey nice video but do u know more wayz to make a computer better

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  • thanks a ton!

    thanks a ton!

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  • post more videos i ...

    post more videos i like your tutorials

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  • nice!

    nice!

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