Hello brooksdj,
Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 8:17:55 AM, you wrote:
bcin> I have XP.Whats this eye candy i can turn
bcin> off.I'd like to see my machine run
bcin> faster<g>My ME
bcin> machines are quicker than my XP one.
bcin> Dave
>> Eye candy is something worth looking at. In XP it's not.
>>
>> Nick Clark wrote:
>>
>> >You can easily turn off the 'eye candy' in XP. Makes it run faster too!
Read "The Elder Geek on Windows XP" http://www.theeldergeek.com/ it is
a great resource page for XP users, there are many good tips about
services which can be disabled to free some resources and make your
machine run faster. It's amazing how many useless sh*t is running on
a default XP install.
Rule of thumb: Make a partition just for the swap file, and set it to
be fixed size, about 2x or 3x the size of your RAM. It is a shame that
XP 'professional' doesn't have a geniune swap partition, but it can be
tricked. If you have 2 or more hard drives, put the system and the swap on
different drives. This can speed up those memory consuming apps.
Attila
