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Tips & Tricks to speed up your Windows PC and maximize performance!

- Disable "Allow Indexing"

Go to My Computer -> right-click your hard drives and CLICK on "Properties", UNCHECK "Allow Indexing", and hit ignore all if a prompt comes up, click apply, then OK.

This turns off a useless categorizing function in windows that makes your computer spend tons of cpu speed arranging your files to make them display in searches faster.

- Turn off fancy windows XP effects

right-click "My Computer" and click on PROPERTIES, click on the Advanced TAB, click on the BUTTON "Settings" in the Performance BOX,

here, you want to uncheck"

Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing
Fade or slide menus into view
Fade or slide ToolTips into view
Fade out menu items after clicking
Slide open combo boxes
Slide taskbar buttons

Click Apply, then OK

This allows for your windows XP to still look pretty and perform much faster.

- Make your start menu show up faster

((( WARNING: Do not mess with your registry if you don't know what you're doing.. this could irreversibly damage your computer! I take no responsibilities for your computer getting damaged from doing this. Perform at your own risk!)))

go to Start > Run > type in "regedit"

On the left side, navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay

from here, change the value data to something like 35 or even 10 if your computer is really slow. Then just click OK and then exit out of regedit.

This makes your Start menu show up faster instead of delaying for 400 milliseconds. As your computer becomes slower and slower over the years, decreasing this value will keep the Start Menu still showing up quickly.

- Defrag your computer. Go to My Computer, right-click all your hard drive, click "Properties", click on the "Tools" TAB and "Defragment now" button. In the utility, start and complete the defragment process for all your hard drives. NOTE: You should have at least 15% of free space on each hard drive to efficiently defrag.