If you are keen on increasing the total speed and efficiency of your system, and you don't mind wiping up the visual effects entirely off your screen, try doing the following: Open system properties>advance> Performance settings>, and select the radio button that reads "Adjust for best performance", then activate the "apply button". I haven't tested this, because I want to retain the visual effects for some reason
Regards Syed Imran ----- Original Message ----- From: "firoz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 5:12 AM Subject: [AI] speed up your p.c. > this i have taken from another list > > hope it may help some > > Follow four simple steps to speed up home Internet browsing: > > Step 1: Increase Internet Explorer (IE) concurrent download limit. This is > a registry hack, so be careful. IE's default settings only permit two > downloads at the same time. Updating the download settings will permit > downloading up to 16 files concurrently from the same server. > Method - Open a command prompt and type 'Regedit'. Find the following > registry key ~ > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet > Settings > Right click the right pane and select New->DWORD Value. Type > MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server and give it a value of 16. Add another DWORD > using the same process - call it MaxConnectionsPerServer with the same > value - 16. > > Step 2: Disable Windows indexing service. The indexing feature consumes > system resources, and may degrade system performance. By disabling this > feature, disk space is speeded up and performance is improved. > > Method - Goto Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services. Find the > Indexing Service, right click and select "Disable". > > Step 3: Resize the IE cache setting. The default cache settings of IE are > configured to hold a large number of cached temporary Internet files. > However, storing many small files on the hard disk consumes valuable disk > space and can cause disk fragmentation. Reduce the maximum size of IE > cache to 128MB for optimal performance. > > Method - Start Internet Explorer, Select Tools -> Internet > Options ->General. Under Temporary Internet Files click the Settings > button and type the amount of disk space to use. > Step 4: Increase Windows menu display Speed. Menus are displayed on the > computer according to Windows' default settings. By optimizing these > settings, the computer's speed in displaying (or hiding) these menus is > increased. > > Method - Goto Start -> Control Panel -> System. Click the Advanced tab, > and under Performance, click the Settings button. Clear the Fade or slide > menus into view check box, and then click OK. > > Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: > http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm > Registration is now open! > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
