Laptop running slow

Not really. But with all the music you have… I would purchase a external hard drive to back up all your songs. In case your hard drive goes bad!

Making a computer quicker is not a simple task; it depends upon many things. However, there are some adjustments you can do yourself to enhance performance.

Deleting rubbish from your PC.

Double Click My Computer (WinXP: Navigate to Start >My Computer)

You will see an icon representing your hard drive (most likely C: Drive) Right Click on the hard drive icon and click Properties at the bottom of the fly out window.

On the very first tab (General) you will see a button labelled “Disk Cleanup”…click that button.

Make sure the following are checked:

• Downloaded Program Files Temporary Internet Files and Recycle Bin Compress Old Files

Click OK and Disk Cleanup will delete those files for you.

Next, go to Start>Run>type in %temp% hit Enter and delete the content of all the temp folders shown (only the content, not the folder). A couple of files may be in memory and will not therefore delete, this is normal.

Please download ATF Cleaner by Atribune.This program is for XP and Windows 2000 only

• Double-click ATF-Cleaner.exe to run the program. Under Main choose: Select All Click the Empty Selected button.

If you use Firefox browser

• Click Firefox at the top and choose: Select All Click the Empty Selected button.NOTE: If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please click No at the prompt.

If you use Opera browser

• Click Opera at the top and choose: Select All Click the Empty Selected button.NOTE: If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please click No at the prompt.

Click Exit on the Main menu to close the program. For Technical Support, double-click the e-mail address located at the bottom of each menu.

A fragmented drive causes a slow system. Easy steps to defragment your drive:

1. open My Computer. 2. Rightclick on the drive you want to defragment and select “Properties”. 3. Click on the Tools tab. 4. Select Defragment Now….

Disable Indexing

1. Double click My Computer
2. Right click on your system hard drive (probably C )
3. Choose Properties
4. Uncheck “Allow Indexing Service etc” this may take a while
5. Apply > OK

Disabling “eye candy”, “bells and whistles”

Windows XP contains a huge list of special effects and visual enhancements such as animated menus, fade effects, cursor shadows, menu shadows etc. Disabling some of these settings can make Windows XP running faster and use fewer system resources

1. Open Control Panel from the Start menu and choose “System.” Choose the “Advanced” tab.
2. Select the “Settings” button under the Performance section.
3. Check the “Adjust for best performance” box and click “Apply” to apply the settings.
4. Alternatively, you can choose the “Custom” open, you can then selectively enable or disable each specific effect. The cursor shadowing effect can have a noticeable impact on performance.

Display Properties Well, it is sad to say goodbye to special effects, but we want to speed up the computer.

1. Open Control Panel from the Start menu and choose Display.
2. Choose the “Desktop tab and set the Background to “None.”
3. Select the “Appearance” tab.
4. Under “Windows and buttons,” choose “Windows Classic Style” from the drop-down menu.
5. Click the “Effects” button.
6. Deselect all options and click OK.
7. Click OK to close the Display Properties and apply the changes.

Start Menu and Folders

Context click (usually known as Right click) on the Windows XP Start button and choose “Properties” from the contextual menu.

1. Choose “Classic Start Menu”
2. Click the “Customise” button
3. Select the “Show Small Icons in Start Menu” option
4. Deselect any other items that you don’t use often.

Folder Options

1. Open My Computer
2. Open the C: Drive or any other drive
3. Choose “Folder Options” from the Tools menu
4. Select “Use Windows classic folders”
5. Select the “View” tab.
6. Deselect the “Automatically search for network folders and printers” option.
7. Click “Apply”
8. Click the “Apply to All Folders” button
9. Click OK.

Now, you can enjoy your PC and Windows XP faster.

Incoming search terms for the article:

• increase computer speed
• acer computer speed
• boost computer speed with external hard drive
• slow applying computer settings computer browser not started
• old computer browser

Incoming search terms for the article:

• netstat -b -f 5