How to improve Windows XP performance

1. Defragment Your Computer - This will place the same files physically closer on the hard disk and will help increase the speed of the load.

• Click Start, once again, run and then click.Type, "dfrg.msc" into the text field.
• Click Defrag to start it.

 2. Perform a disk clean.

• Click start at the bottom left corner, then click run.
• Type, "cleanmgr.exe" into the text field.
• Press "OK". It can take a while if you've never done before.

3. Make Windows Load Faster

• Click Start, then Run.
• Type 'msconfig' and press enter.
• Click on the BOOT.INI tab at the top.
• To the right will have a box labeled Timeout with 30 in it. Change 30 to third.

4. Set Pagefile size

• Click Start, (Settings), Control Panel, System. (It's like a step above this.)
• Open the Advanced tab. Click the Settings button under Performance.
• Now switch to the Advanced tab, then click 'Change' under Virtual Memory.
• You will see 'Initial Size (MB)' and Maximum size (MB) '.
• Change 'initial size' with the same value and then click set as a 'Maximum Size'.
• NOTE: When your computer is consuming your computer's hard drive and use it as RAM, is referred to as a blow. Thrashing is bad for your computer and buy a RAM (not expensive) is far more valuable.