Disable the Disk Performance counter(s).....................

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Windows XP contains a built in performance monitor that is constantly examining various areas of ur system. This information can be called up using the performance monitor application found in control pane\administrative tools. Of course, most of us have little interest in this sort of performance statistics monitoring, that being more the territory of systems administrators than individual users. The thing is, XP is still monitoring away, and some of its observation tools can use a considerable amount of resources. The disk monitoring is an example of this, ad it's a good idea to turn the disk monitors off if u are not planning to use the performance monitor application. To do this: Go to the command prompt ( 'start\run' tben type 'cmd') and type 'diskperf-N' Alternate Method Win XP comes with many inbuilt performance monitoring applications that constantly examine various parts of the sustem. This information can be of real use to a system administrator for collecting performance statistics. However, for a home user, these statistics hold no value and since the monitoring happens all the time, it consumes a good deal of system resources. "Disk monitoring", for example, happens in the background, and turning it off is advisable if u will not be using the performance monistoring applications. To turn it off, type in "diskperf-N" at a command prompt. To bring up the command prompt go to StartRun, type in "cmd" and press [Enter]