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Windows XP Twenty Use Full Tips
& Tweaks!
5)Performance
Increase Through My Computer: Easy enough tweak to usually find out about it
on your own, but still, some of us still don't find it
right away. So here it is:
Start > right-click on My Computer
and select Properties.
Click on the "Advanced" tab.
See the "Performance" section?
Click "Settings".
Disable the following:
Fade or slide menus into view
Fade or slide ToolTips into view
Fade out menu items after clicking
Show Shadows under menus
Slide open combo boxes
Slide taskbar buttons
Use a background image for each folder
type
Use common tasks in folders
There, now Windows will still look nice
and perform faster.
6)Reduce 10 Second Scandisk Wait Time:
Start MS Dos Prompt (Start run CMD), and
type: CHKNTFS /T:4
where 4 is the amount of wait time.
CHKNTFS /?
for more info.
7)DMA Mode on IDE Devices: Just like Windows 2000, Windows XP still fails
to set the DMA mode correctly for the IDE device designated
as the slaves on the primary IDE and secondary IDE channels.
Most CD-ROMS are capable of supporting DMA mode, but the
default in XP is still PIO. Setting it to DMA won't make
your CD-ROM faster, but it will consume less CPU cycles.
Here's how:
Open the Device Manager. One way to do that is to right-click
on "My Computer", select the Hardware tab, and
select Device Manager.
Expand "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" and double-click
on "Primary IDE Channel".
Under the "Advanced Settings" tab, check the
"Device 1" setting. More than likely, your current
transfer mode is set to PIO.
Set it to "DMA if available".
Repeat the step for the "Secondary IDE Channel"
if you have devices attached to it. Reboot.
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