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Cleaning the Prefetch Directory 

Windows XP has a new feature called Prefetch. This keeps a shortcut to recently used programs. However it can fill up with old and obsolete programs. To clean this periodically go to: 

1. Star / Run / Prefetch
2. Press Ctrl-A to highlight all the shortcuts
3. Delete them

Turn off Unwanted services 

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

·         Application Management

·         Clip book

·         Fast User Switching

·         Human Interface Devices

·         Indexing Service

·         Messenger

·         Net Logon

·         NetMeeting

·         QOS RSVP

·         Remote Desktop Help Session Manager

·         Remote Registry

·         Routing & Remote Access

·         SSDP Discovery Service

·         Universal Plug and Play Device Host

·         Web Client

To turn off these service

1. 1.       Go to Start -> Settings -> control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services
2. 2.       Click the Appropriate service and press the stop link. 

Not Displaying Logon, Logoff, Startup and Shutdown Status Messages

 To turn these off: 

1. Start Regedit ( Go to Start -> RUN  -> Type Regedit )
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\m*cro$oft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system
3. If it is not already there, create a DWORD value named DisableStatusMessages Give it a value of 1 

Clearing the Page File on Shutdown 

1. Click on the Start button
2. Go to the Control Panel
3. Administrative Tools
4. Local Security Policy
5. Local Policies
6. Click on Security Options
7. Right hand menu - right click on "Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Page file"
8. Select "Enable"
9. Reboot

      For regedit users

1. Start Regedit ( Go to Start -> RUN  -> Type Regedit )
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
3. Manager\Memory Management\ClearPageFileAtShutdown
4. Set the value to 1

No GUI Boot

If you don't need to see the XP boot logo, 

1. Run MSCONFIG ( Go to Start -> RUN  -> Type MSCONFIG )
2. Click on the BOOT.INI tab
3. Check the box for /NOGUIBOOT    

Speeding the Startup of Some CD Burner Programs 

If you use program other than the native Windows XP CD Burner software, you might be able to increase the speed that it loads.

1. Go to Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Services
2. Double-click on IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service
3. For the Startup Type, select Disabled
4. Click on the OK button and then close the Services window
5. If you don’t You should notice 

Getting Rid of Unread Email Messages 

To remove the Unread Email message by user's login names: 

1. Start Regedit ( Go to Start -> RUN  -> Type Regedit )
2. For a single user: Go to
4. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail
5. For all users: Go to
6. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail
7. Create a DWORD key called MessageExpiryDays
8. Give it a value of 0 

Decreasing Boot Time 

Microsoft has made available a program to analyze and decrease the time it takes to Boot to Windows XP. The program is called BootVis

Uncompress the file.

1. Run BOOTVIS.EXE
2. For a starting point, run Trace / Next Boot + Driver Delays
3. This will reboot your computer and provide a benchmark
4. After the reboot, BootVis will take a minute or two to show graphs of your system startup.
5. Note how much time it takes for your system to load (click on the red vertical line)
6. Then run Trace / Optimize System
7. Re-Run the Next Boot + Drive Delays
8. Note how much the time has decreased  

Increasing Graphics Performance 

By default, Windows XP turns on a lot of shadows, fades, slides etc to menu items. Most simply slow down their display. To turn these off selectively: 

1. Right click on the My Computer icon
2. Select Properties
3. Click on the Advanced tab
4. Under Performance, click on the Settings button
5. To turn them all of, select Adjust for best performance
6. My preference is to leave them all off except for Show shadows under mouse pointer and Show window contents while dragging 

Increasing System Performance 

If you have 512 megs or more of memory, you can increase system performance by having the core system kept in memory. 

1. Start Regedit ( Go to Start -> RUN  -> Type Regedit )
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Memory Management\DisablePagingExecutive
3. Set the value to be 1
4. Reboot the computer 

Resolving Inability to Add or Remove Programs 

If a particular user cannot add or remove programs, there might be a simple registry edit needed.

 Go to HKCU\Software\m*cro$oft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Uninstall

Change the DWORD NoAddRemovePrograms to 0 disable it

Cleanup and Defragamentation 

Regular system Clean up and Defragmentation also improves the speed of Windows XP 

1. GO to Start -> programs -> Accessories ->  System Tools ->  Disk Cleanup or Disk Defragmenter
2. Run these tow tools once in every month. Use that tools to clean up arrange files in your hard disk.