Re: Speeding up slow XP PCs - suggested remedies when you've tried the obvious



deKay wrote:
Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Wed, 6 Feb
2008 09:21:22 -0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do uk.comp.misc,
yawatina tan reek esk "Mortimer" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> fornis do marikano es bono
tan el:

When a Windows XP runs painfully slowly, there are lots of magazine articles which suggest the same old things to try: uninstall programs that aren't needed; scan for viruses and spyware using AdAware and/or Spybot; add more memory; defrag hard disk; remove any unnecessary programs from All Programs | Startup and the HKCU/KHLM | Run sections of the registry.

Try deleting (or moving if you're coward!) everything in the WINDOWS\prefetch
folder. That should help speed up booting without any negative effects.


See http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000743.html

David


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