Thin the herd of RAM hogs. This site has been around for years...
Windows Services ~ Includes complete explanations of each service and advice on which services you can safely disable.
Yes. IE has been borged into the operating system - it's no longer a separate module - and the optimization gurus have had several goes at it.
Win XP was the most dangerous OS allowed for home use. Truly meant for corporate work. Home users did not know about open ports or firewalls.
Installed out of the box and all the service ports were open. MS would have "done good" if they allowed the users to allow open ports at will. XP was really meant for corporate. Meant for networking, when the home users just needs a "locked down box".
Uh, Admin old buddy, homes are full of computers these days. Homes have garages with cars and trucks. Homes have pets, children and crotchety old farts. There are also homes out there with preverts, blowup dolls and nekid people so how could anything be off topic?
TDD
Hmmm, I use SeaMonkey configured to my own liking on a Vista Pro 64 bit with
8GB memory. Works just fine.On 3/7/2010 8:43 PM Tony Hwang spake thus:
So? With that much memory I could get any browser to work well. Says nothing.
On 3/7/2010 8:13 PM The Daring Dufas spake thus:
It was a, was, a, a joke, son.
Hi, I do many other things. DAW, Photo/web editing, programming, etc. Box is Xeon Quad cpu based. I cound use more memory. But when I need them I/ll add more.
Hi, Get rid of all the garbages piled up on the system over time. Keep the registry clean or modifiy it to your needs. Fine tune your system for what you mostly do with your system. 32 bit OS has max addressing for memory at 3 GB. If needed go 64 bit or Linux.
Perzactly!
TDD
AMEN! _________
Even *much* less than 64K. Especially if one sacrificed T-states for compactness. The most meaningful assembly program I ever wrote was one in the late 70s to load on demand and dynamically link subroutines to Basic programs on 8 bit computers. It also set up a system of virtual memory. It was only about 10KB and almost half of that was online "help".
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How about. .. "The Apollo computers had less processing power than a cellphone."
Jim
Do not EVER use a "registry cleaner." There is nothing a registry cleaner purports to do that will improve efficiency. For example, the registry is not searched sequentially, so whether it contains 1,000 entries or 3 million is irrelevant. The difference to access the proper key between the two is measured in nanoseconds.
Conversely, use of a registry cleaner can screw up a system beyond repair. Admittedly, so can a manual modification of the registry, but in this latter case you at least know what you did.
Next, a 32-bit system has an addressing capability of about 4 GB, not three (2^32 = 4,294,967,296). Most operating systems snatch some of the RAM for their internals (i.e. video buffers) so the amount of RAM usable by application programs is in the neighborhood of 3.1-3.4 GB.
But 640KB should be enough for anyone... :-)
I wonder if anyone has looked into the security issues of the various browsers. There have been many patched over the years by MSFT to IE to fix security issues. Who, if anyone is looking at those issues for the variety of other browsers, some of which are open source, which you would think would make them more vulnerable. And also, I'd wonder how well they work with anti-virus and similar protection software. Like I'm sure Norton, McAfee, etc make sure their products do a good job of working with and protecting you when using IE, but how about some third tier browser?
I've found Firefox 3.x to be quicker than 2.x, that is supposedly one of the things that they workedon for the new release.
nate
I was using Eusing Registry Fix, freeware, plus Internet Options Delete Cookies and Files when mine would slow down. My computer geek said the same thing you said, not to mess with the registry. Ever. So, I think my problem was memory and not registry. Still will delete cookies and files, tho.
Steve
CCleaner is an excellent file/cookie sweeper. Don't install any add-ons (unless you want them) like tool bars (that help pay for the freeware).
David Nebenzahl wrote the following:
The System Configuration Utility is what you want. Start - Run. type - "msconfig" in the run box (no quotes). Click the 'Startup' tab. Click on 'Disable All'. Click 'Close'. Restart computer. After restart, a System Configuration Utility window will pop up. Check the 'Don't show this message........ box, then OK
Don't worry, this will not uninstall any apps, they just won't be automatically started upon a Windows start. Those disabled files will start when you click on a Desktop or Program shortcut, some will even enable themselves when you open the app.
"Firefox induced cat warts" can easily be prevented. First, the cat must be spayed or neutered in a town with a name starting with "M" (or "F" if you use marijuana). Also, avoid saying 6-letter words beginning with "C" and ending with "T", or any words derived from one that day.
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