Windows-XP

Windows XP File Cleanup

Wilf Gerrard-Staton — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:11:56 +0000

Now what have we accomplished so far to fix your windows xp slow startup problem well lets go further and do a bit of windows XP file cleanup .

We have fixed up errors on the drive and hopefully your startup is at least a bit faster. What else is there?

What also happens over time is that a lot of crud gets left on the hard drive. This crud can be temporary files, files that you have deleted and reside in the recycle bin and logfiles that in some cases can grow very big.

Now how do we get this crud on our disk? Well I have just mentioned one, deleted files that go to the recycle bin. Sometimes these files could be gigabytes in size. (Remember that video you deleted last week?)

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Windows XP disk Fragmentation

Wilf Gerrard-Staton — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:50:06 +0000

Well back to windows xp slow startup and onto disk fragmentation Now you have cleaned up the physical bits and pieces of your disk and you have got rid of all the crud. You may find that your system may now run considerably faster. There is another area that may cause slowing down of your PC running under windows XP. Fragmentation!

What’s disk fragmentation?

Well consider this analogy. What if you put every page of your daily newspaper in a different room? In order to read it you would have to go around pick up each piece and put it into order before you start reading it. (That’s what I have to do after my wife has read it).

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Windows XP Resident Programs

Wilf Gerrard-Staton — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:35:20 +0000

Now what else can we look at that causes a windows xp slow startup ? Ever heard of “resident programs”?Well these aren’t nasties and some are actually required to be resident. First, what does a resident program mean?You know that thing the salesman kept telling you about. Huge amount of RAM. (Random access memory) More you have the better it is. (Well not always) What these resident programs do is eat up this RAM. So you may have started with 500megabytes, but may end up with just a 100MB after all these programs are loaded. Once they are loaded into memory they are stuck there. Perform this little operation.

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Windows XP slow startup

Wilf Gerrard-Staton — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:10:55 +0000

You have a PC with windows xp slow startup. Wasn’t it great! Your spanking new Desktop or laptop was running like a dream. Fast as lightning. Then as time progressed things started to happen. It takes a while to startup when you switch on. Occasionally things just seem to go at a crawl. Hah, Lets try one of those amazing fixit programs advertised. Shell out bucks and she’ll be OK. Humm…. Things seem to be a little bit better.What about that program that says you have a register problem. That will fix it. Well believe it or not they may fix a lot of problems but they may not be the one you have got. They most probably not be what a lot of people have got.

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