Speed Up Windows XP

Windows has lots of goodies built-in. Many of them are not important for the average user. Microsoft delivers products set up badly in many ways. Especially true is Microsoft's practice of turning on, by default, stuff you don't need. Each extra unneeded function causes a deterioration in system performance.

A good example is - ironically - the system performance monitor. Few people - save for some deviant techie-types - use that. Turn off performance monitoring, and you'll get a small speed improvement.

Turning of the performance monitor is easy and nearly fool-proof. Here's how:

1. Left-click the START Button
2. Left-click "Run"
3. In the Text Entry Box type 'diskperf -N'
4. Left-click the OK Button

That's all.