Optimize your computer ..... series contd.

HELPPCONLINE KNOWLEDGE SHARING

Easily Disable any Messenger

·  Go to Tools and then Options.

·  One of the option you need to uncheck is "Start when computer/ Windows Start".

Now it should not use your processor unnecessarily

Very Slow Boot When Networking

On some XP Pro installations, when connected to a network (peer-peer in this case), the computer boot time is over 1:40. The system seems to freeze after logging in and the desktop may not appear or will freeze for a minute. As timed with the utility, Bootvis.exe, the problem was with the driver mrxsmb.dll, adding over 67 seconds to the

boot time. Turning off and restoring file and printer sharing eliminated 65 seconds from

the boot time.

·         Alt-click (or right-click) on Network Places > Properties.

·         Alt-click on Ethernet Adapter connection > Properties.

·         Un-check "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks" > OK.

·         Reboot.

·         If you need file or printer sharing, repeat the above, re-check the box and re-boot again.

Easy Way to Adjust Large System Cache

Normally, go into

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management and change the value to either O or 1 to the adjustment the LargeSystemCache. However, in Windows XP, all you have to do is:

·  Right-click My Computer.

·  Select Properties.

·  Click Advanced.

·  Choose Performance.

·  Click Advanced again.

·  Select either Programs or System Cache under Memory Usage.

Programs = 0 for the registry tweak equivalent

System Cache = 1 for the registry tweak equivalent

·  On NT Server (in this case XP), the Large System Cache option is enabled, but

disabled on Workstation. The two different settings effect how the cache manager

allocates free memory. If the Large Cache option is on, the manager marks all the free

memory, which isn't being used by the system and/or applications, as freely available for disk caching.

·  On the flip-side (with a small cache), the manager instead only sets aside 4MB of

Memory for disk caching in an attempt to accelerate the launch of applications, Or in a

more technical approach, if enabled the system will favor system-cache working sets over process working sets (with a working set basically being the memory used by components of a process).

........Helppconline support continues