10 means fast and easy to speed up your computer!

Many people is interested to get the most out of their hardware. Here is therefore 10 easy tips on how to make your Windows XP computer to run more quickly without having to buy additional hardware.

1. High-speed data access disk defragmentation

One of the factors that slow down the computer's performance is disk fragmentation. When files are fragmented, the computer must search the disk hard when the file is opened in the piece again together. For faster response time, you should run monthly, a Windows utility Disk Defragmenter that defrags and consolidates fragmented response faster computer files.

* Follow start > all programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter * click the disk you want to defragment, and then click Scan * click the Defragment 2. Detecting and repairing disk errors

In time, your hard disk develop bad sectors. Bad sectors slow hard disk performance and sometimes make data entry difficult or even impossible. For detecting and repairing disk errors, Windows has a built-in tool called the error checking utility. It you hard disk for bad sectors and research system errors and fix them for faster performance.

* Follow start > desktop * the workstation with the button right disk you want to analyze, then click Properties

* Click the Tools tab * click check now * select the scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box * 3-click Start. Disable indexing services

Indexing Service is a small application that uses lots of CPU. Indexing and updating the lists of all files on the computer, it allows you to search for something more quickly because it scans the index list. But if you know where your files, you can disable this system service. It does any harm to your computer, if you search for often or not often.

* Click Start * click Settings * Control Panel-click * double-click Add/Remove Programs * click the Add/Remove window components * uncheck the indexing services * click next 4. Optimize Windows XP display settings is a looker. But it costs you the system resources that are used to display any Visual elements and effects. Windows works properly if you disable most of the settings and let the following: * show shadows under menus * show shadows under mouse pointer * translucent selection rectangle display * shadows use labels on the desktop icons * use visual styles on Windows and buttons 6. Disable Windows XP performance counters has a performance monitor utility that monitors multiple areas of your PC's performance. These utilities are disabling system resources is a good idea.

* Download and install the Extensible Performance counter list (http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/exctrlst-o.asp) * and then select each counter in turn in repeating 'performance counters' window and clear the 'performance counters enabled' checkbox button down less than 7. Optimize your page file, you can optimize your paging file. Setting a fixed size of your paging file saves the operating system of the need to resize the page file.

* Right click on desktop and select properties * select the Advanced tab * performance choose the settings button * select the Advanced tab again and under virtual memory select change * highlight the drive containing your page file and that the initial size of the file is the same as the maximum file size.

8 Remove fonts for speed of fonts, especially TrueType, fonts, use quite a bit of system resources. For optimal performance, adjust your fonts to only those you need to use on a daily basis and fonts that applications may require.

* Open the Control Panel * folder fonts open * moving fonts that you do not need to a temporary directory (e.g. C:\FONTBKUP?) just in case you need or you want to bring some of them. The fonts you uninstall, the more system resources you will earn.

9 Use a Flash memory to boost performance to improve performance, you must install more memory RAM. It you you can start your OS much faster and run many applications and faster data access. There is nothing simpler and more technically elegant this use eBoostr (http://www.eboostr.com).

eBoostr is a small program that allows you to improve performance of any computer, powered by Windows XP in much the same as Vista ReadyBoost. With eBoostr, if you have a flash drive, like a flash USB thumb drive or SD card you can use it to make your computer run better. Simply connect via a USB flash drive and Windows XP uses eBoostr to use flash memory to improve performance.

The product shows the best results for frequently used applications and data, which becomes a nice feature for people who use office programs, graphics applications and developer tools. It you surely draw special attention of laptop owners as upgraded laptop is usually more complicated and portable hard drives are slower than desktop definition.

10 Perform defragmentation starting is an easy way to speed up boot XP: make your system boot defragment, which will put all files starting next to each other on your hard disk. When the startup files are in close proximity to each other, your system will start more quickly.

On most systems, boot defragment must be enabled by default, but may not be on your own, or it might have been changed inadvertently. Make sure that startup Defragment is enabled: * run the Registry Editor * go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction * sets the string enable y if it is not already set on Y.