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Re: Windows XP
« on: October 30, 2003, 03:15:54 PM »
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I just bought a new laptop with Windows XP pre-installed and going to give it a bit of test drive tonight
so i would be interested in reading some of good/bad
points and tips -sensible comments ?  :-D


The first thing I did on my Laptop was get rid of all the XP eye candy and configure it for best performance over visual effects.

I know it's  3ghz laptop, but I want my machine to be really fast :)

Before you ask:
AROS rocks on it :lol:
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Re: Windows XP
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2003, 03:45:23 PM »
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I just bought a new laptop with Windows XP pre-installed and going to give it a bit of test drive tonight
so i would be interested in reading some of good/bad
points and tips -sensible comments ?


Yes, first things first IMO, reinstall the OS with a proper install CD (rather than recovery CD which just contains an image if the usual poor factory install).  The install guide for win2k on my site can mostly be applied to WinXP as well.


Cheers Mike, I'm gonna check over your sit in case I've missed anything. Where abouts do I look on your site?
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Re: Windows XP
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2003, 04:14:51 PM »
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I would suggest checking out www.TweakXP.com/, I'm sure you'll find some useful tips there. I recommend going over your services and disabling the ones that you don't need (things like the Indexing service are often not needed).


I just had a quick browse around and I wouldn't advise taking what they say for gospel.  For example, two articles, one named "disable automatic updates", then another a page down "disable automatic updates properly", both contain different solutions, and yet only both combined will probably disable automatic updates and keep it from using up memory.

Heh - an even better one - two articles both about installing without ACPI, it just doesn't bother advising that maybe one ought to disable ACPI in the BIOS before starting the install  :lol:


Talking of BIOS's my crappie BIOS doesn't have an option to enable HT on my CPU, even though my CPU support such an option...

Any ideas as to how I can enable HT?
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Re: Windows XP
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2003, 04:08:32 PM »
Using MSConfig one can disable system services... which one can I safely disable...?
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