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Step 1
The first thing to do to make Windows XP faster is to make sure you have all the Windows updates installed. Open internet explorer, click tools, then windows updates. Install all the non optional ones. This will make sure you also are more secure.
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Step 2
Get rid of the visual effect to make Windows XP faster. Right click on the desktop, and select the "Properties" menu item, select the "Appearance" tab. In the dropdown box under "Windows and buttons", choose Windows Classic style. It will make windows xp a little less pretty, but you will see a performance boost from this.
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Step 3
Turn off the Windows XP indexing service and you will make Windows XP faster. Indexing service runs in the background and uses a lot of memory, but you don't need it. To turn it off click start, run, type services then press enter. Scroll to the "Indexing Service" in the right-hand pane and double-click it. Change the Startup type to manual and apply. Go ahead and click the stop button and wait for the service to stop then click OK.
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Step 4
To make Windows XP faster look at what programs are running in the background. On the bottom right, by the clock. on the task bar see the programs running. Close the ones you don't want running. Don't let programs start when Windows starts unless you use it all the time. Click start, run, type msconfig and enter. Click the tab for startup and look through the programs that start when you start Windows XP. Figure out what they are, and if you don't need or want them running all the time close unclick them. This will make Windows XP faster.
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Step 5
Make sure you defragment your hard drive regularly. This makes Windows XP faster because the hard drive will read/write faster. Also, get rid of unused/unwanted file and programs. They are just wasting space taking up hard memory.
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Step 6
Get more ram. Ram is easy to install in desktops, and it is pretty cheap. Figure out how much you have now, and increase it. Shoot for 2g if you can to make Windows XP faster.
