How to Make Windows XP or Vista FASTER
@mayankbhushan (398)
India
June 16, 2008 12:38am CST
This is a discussion on how you can improve the speed of your Windows Operating System.
Step1
Click "Start". If "My Computer" is already a shortcut for you skip to step 4.
Step2
Go to "Programs" or "All Programs" depending on your view.
Step3
Then go to "Accessories" and click "Windows Explorer"
Step4
From there Right click "My computer" and then Left Click "Properties"
Step5
Then click the "Advanced" tab and then the "Settings" button under Performance.
Step6
From there click on "Adjust for best performance" and then click "Ok"
Step7
It will look something It will look a little more plain, but it will improve your PC performance.
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9 responses
@murtagh92 (182)
• United States
16 Jun 08
cool, i'm gonna try that!
especially since it just sometimes seems like vista is so slow =[
still kinda wish i had XP, cuz vista is a resource hog...but w/e, thanks for the advice! hope it helps
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@mayankbhushan (398)
• India
16 Jun 08
Thanks for responding for this discussion.
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@chirantani (1379)
• India
16 Jun 08
I did it.It worked or not I am not sure about that !! Anyways,Thank you very much for sharing it with us.
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@mayankbhushan (398)
• India
16 Jun 08
Thanks for responding for this discussion.
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@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
16 Jun 08
Hi Mayank
Thanks a lot for this information. I just did that. See that's the joy of these forums. Even a dumb like me can be updated! *laughs*
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Just went to appearance and had it back to what it was before..
thank for this post! 
@NonaSaile (924)
• Philippines
16 Jun 08
I just did it. I'm banking on it. Thanks!
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@321482069 (8)
• Canada
16 Jun 08
ya this does make your computer alot faster i did it a while ago an dmy computer has been running smoothly ever since this is realy good for computers with a low amount of "ram".
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@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
16 Jun 08
The reason why there is an improvement in speed is because "Adjust for best performance" will disable all graphical effects and use simple colors. That will really work if you wont mind seeing Xp or Vista like Windows 2000, no gradient colors, no menu transitions, mouse pointer has no shadow even Vista's transparent window will appear plain.
@ralph12345abc (1311)
• India
16 Jun 08
If you can do this then try editing prefetcher through registry editor it decrease the time application take to load.You can also give a bit more paging memory.
@Kamranrockz (136)
• India
16 Jun 08
Hey I tried it it looked like i am using windows 2000 instead of windows Xp didnt liked that so went back to the normal mode anyways thanks a lot for sharing this information with us
