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Mar 7, 2008. 9:49 AMlsocoee
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I'm sorry, but this is full of misinformation. Following this instructable will likely do very little for your computer performance. Here's a few things you should be doing cleaning up the desktop Rt. Click on "My Computer" Go to "Advanced" tab and click "performance". Uncheck those items. By the way, don't bother uninstalling IE7. You should be using Firefox, but sometimes there are sites that require IE7.
Dec 1, 2008. 1:18 AMxacked
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>By the way, don't bother uninstalling IE7. You should be using Firefox, but sometimes there are sites that require IE7.
Windows Update via IE7 =P
Yay instructable written by someone who needs to relearn how to use WinXP.
Windows Update via IE7 =P
Yay instructable written by someone who needs to relearn how to use WinXP.
Aug 11, 2009. 9:50 AMxacked
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Sure you can use IE Tab, but that would be an addon that the average user may not know about when they first install FF. By the way, too many addons slow down your computer. The other way to update obviously is Windows Security Center, but some people don't like automatic updates and disable it.
Oct 12, 2008. 3:19 AMma36tt
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hey isocoee: my friend got a xp laptop and shes having big problems of slow pages and alot of other stuff. i went in and unchecked most of the stuff in performance and told her to download firefox3 and it got worse. any ideas, before she smash's her laptop
Jul 2, 2008. 5:18 PMCoolerman
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HELP!! I running WinXP & use Internet Explorer to access these & other instructables. I used to be able to print them but now I can't. Whenever I select print Explorer pops a error report window & then when I send the report it shuts down & the instructable is gone??? So I've been trying everything here from usoft website but nothing seems to work. So just reading this instructable seems you people are knowledgable about computors so??? any suggestions???
Jul 4, 2008. 2:24 AMCoolerman
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I havn't got firefox, although different friends have mentioned using it. Some what leary about downloading it cause I'm worried about virus?? On the usoft technical website they suggest resetting internet explorer?? what will that do??? Thanks for the response!!
Jul 31, 2008. 7:11 PMddavel544
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I've had Firefox for years...it's the best browser on the internet...no viruses and with Google and Yahoo tool bar installed you get a free anti-spyware. Also, you can get other add-ons , like ad-blocker (ABP)...very good to block annoying useless ads that slow page loading. Internet Explorer ...watch out...bad news!
Jul 25, 2009. 8:41 PMgamerguy13
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IE has plenty of good security now, and ive tried firefox, for me it does not perform any better and can view less sites
Jul 4, 2008. 8:27 AMxACIDITYx (author)
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Well, do you have an antivirus and anti-spyware software? Download the firefox installer but SAVE FILE to desktop. Scan it with some antivirus. It shouldn't have a virus. Then, install firefox. If it's still happening in firefox, one of your dll's is probably messed up. You may have to reinstall windows if printing stuff is a big deal to you.
Jul 25, 2009. 2:53 PMgamerguy13
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You should uninstall it from the add/remove windows components option, usually on the left side of add/remove programs
Also,to run faster you can check the registry for Startup programs,The runOnce Key
Dec 19, 2008. 9:43 AMReedJames123
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According to this icon's properties, the start menu item you specify is only a shortcut to the actual executable file and only takes up a tiny bit of space. You're not actually deleting the whole file.
Apr 18, 2009. 6:54 PMraveneapoe
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To entirely remove the application right click on the "tour windows" and select properties. Select "shortcut" and then click "find target". Right click and delete the target , then go back and delete the shortcut. Easy.
Apr 18, 2009. 6:53 PMraveneapoe
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To entirely remove the application right click on the "tour windows" and select properties. Select "shortcut" and then click "find target". Right click and delete the target , then go back and delete the shortcut. Easy.
Mar 7, 2008. 6:41 PMjakebuck
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Disk defrag does nothing to speed up your comp if you have a hd more than a few gigs in size. I've been running my os off the same hd for 10 years and have not had a problem.
my hd is 80gb and if i dont defrag atleast every 3 months programs will start to crash
Apr 24, 2008. 8:02 PMfwjs28
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it does however if those programs are fragmented (scattered) around ur hdd and this can slow it down b/c the computer shecks for something.exe in my documents then my computer and so on.....so yes it may speed it up a lil....
Apr 24, 2008. 8:29 PMjakebuck
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I don't think you understand how computers access files. They don't look in different folders for your applications, but they look at specific addresses that identify areas on your disk. Back in the day, harddrives were much slower, so keeping all fragments of a file together would increase load time. Today however, the difference between loading a fragmented file vs unfragmented are negligible, due to increased speed as well as increased storage. I wish I still had the link, but I've recently read a report on the performance of systems before and after defrag, by percentage of fragmentation, which showed such a slight increase in read / write rates and access times that it was unnoticeable. If you really need those 15 picoseconds, go ahead and let your defrag commandeer your system for an hour or two.
May 29, 2008. 1:51 PMxACIDITYx (author)
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Well, Here's something I found. Look at the video. It's dealing with the iPod, but it's the same idea.
Apr 27, 2008. 10:45 AMnf119
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Agreed. Defragmenting using Windows have become useless since there is so little that needs to be done. However third party defragmenters may help, especially if you are into gaming and do not like to wait while games load. These defragmenters are smart and also move non-defragmented files based on usage and relations between files. For example they order files based on how they may be loaded in a game. But otherwise no one really need to defragment - maybe once a year so that its easily to recover when your hdd gets corrupt.
Mar 9, 2009. 3:39 PMBIO Wolf
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Alternate to manually searching for files: WinDirStat. And better yet, its free.
Feb 23, 2009. 1:47 AMblakeredfield
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What about services, registry and program controls? Memory, paging file and startup optimizations?
I would of started my own instructable, but it will never be as good as Kourush's Tweakguide. Anyone interested in optimizing their system should visit his site.
I would of started my own instructable, but it will never be as good as Kourush's Tweakguide. Anyone interested in optimizing their system should visit his site.
Oct 24, 2008. 7:07 AMcornflaker
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Heaps of the stuff you say to delete is just shortcuts which pretty much take up no space at all. You's have to delete TONES of shortcuts to get back like 1kb. Also you doubled of some things like ccleaner can delete/disable startup programs and delete history etc. Appart from those that was pretty good (not really anything I personally didn't already know though)
Jul 16, 2008. 5:48 PMrabbitkillrun
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ok... if you have to go so far to go down to the lowest colour setting and even delete read-me's, which take up like 3kb each, and you need to remove software which you actually use, then you're in desperate need of a new computer...
Oct 12, 2008. 3:08 AMma36tt
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hi guys, my friend just bought a second handed xp laptop and shes having freeze ups and slow going to page to page. i tried to help her as much as possible but now im out of options. i told her to download firefox 3 and it got worse. do you guys have any answers. shes about to smash it
Oct 13, 2008. 10:08 AMrabbitkillrun
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If it's second hand, then there is probably nothing on it that she needs, right...? save any important documents onto a USB drive or something, then install windows again using the disc... This will erase the whole hard-drive but that'll be a good thing in this case as it will remove all teh crap that has slowly built up in the machine... If you don't have the disc, ask the person you got it off... They should have got it when they bought it in teh first place... hope that helps...
window classic looks a lot better too. I wouldn't recommend changing your color to 16 bit unless you are desperate to get your computer to run faster.
Aug 2, 2008. 11:13 PMwizzledizzle
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Dont use IE. The developers did not follow CCS standards and it incorrectly displays CSS. This makes it very hard for people like me, who designs webpages, to get them to work with IE. If you knew what I was talking about you would never use IE unless you really needed to.
Jul 31, 2008. 7:02 PMddavel544
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I had AVG for a while, but it would never update. Always said 'cannot connect to server'...or words to affect. But then, I downloaded Avast 4.8 free Home Edition from download.com. Of course I uninstalled AVG first before installing Avast (can't have two anti-virus programs ...they will cancel each other out). On the first scan of Avast ...it found and removed 4 viruses that the AVG did not!
Jul 20, 2008. 1:20 AMToshinden12345
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it cleared all my spyware off my computer in an instant
Jul 20, 2008. 1:19 AMToshinden12345
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spyware doctor is a trial, the trial only offers a scan...if it detects anything you have to buy it, it is awesome...i bought it...i say it was worth it!
Jul 20, 2008. 1:18 AMToshinden12345
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avast...once you install it you can not unistall it, it is annoying but avg YES, it works, sometimes norton works but i have avg, but i like mcafee more xD
Jun 3, 2008. 12:00 PMawkrin
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most steps aren't significant, I mean the games, readme's utilities use up to ~30mb each, and u only got them to the bin. I'm always confident(not regret loosing actually) about using shift-delete every time I want to get rid of everything. some of these things can be achieved with tuneup utilities (u can download it with any torrent downloader) and most of us delete the browsing history not only to free up space... firefox works a lot better than ie7 (but uses even 500mb of memory, so I use safari or something while playing huge games) and u forgot to mention memory optimizers, registry helpers well the instructable is nice anyway
Change step 12 to "Get Mozilla Firefox". IE is slow and unreliable. This is a well done instructable, however some things are only for very old slow computers. You'd only change the theme to classic and kill all of the fancy animations if your computer is REALLY slow. I have a computer with 500mHz CPU and 512 MB RAM that works very well with XP. I also have a laptop with 200mHz CPU and 128MB RAM that runs a vista themed XP quite nicely.
Mar 7, 2008. 1:05 AMDanAdamKOF
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Other than your misinformed method of removing programs by deleting shortcuts, I have the following points of critique: Deleting readme's will clear out a few kilobytes per file. If you're that hard up for space... yikes. You shouldn't even be running XP on a computer that's dated enough to perform significantly poorer in 32bit color than 16bit. Also, you'll find that Norton can slow a PC down pretty badly. If you're trying to run XP "better", you should recommend a more lightweight Antivirus like Kaspersky or Nod32.
Mar 7, 2008. 9:18 AMtimheppner
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I have to agree, and say that there is some misinformation in this instructable. Deleting programs that aren't used will save you space on your hard drive, but not speed your computer up. For example, the games are accessed only when you choose to run them, they don't do anything just sitting there. This also applies to having more than one browser, heck, you could have 10 installed, with no difference in computer speed. Having programs on the hard drive just sitting there won't make your computer slower.
Also, to remove programs, you should go to the Control Panel, and then to Add or Remove Programs, and from that list get rid of what you don't want, not simply deleting the shortcut to the program in the start menu.
I also can't see how having documents on your computer makes it slower. They take up space on the hard drive, but they don't "clog up the arteries".
I'm not saying the entire instructable is bad, but there are things here that aren't true. As a note, having an antivirus program *will* slow your computer down, as it checks for viruses in the background, as well as every program you run, before it lets you use them. This is not a bad thing, as having a computer clogged with viruses will slow it down even more, but you take a preformance hit because of it, a definate win situation.
Also, to remove programs, you should go to the Control Panel, and then to Add or Remove Programs, and from that list get rid of what you don't want, not simply deleting the shortcut to the program in the start menu.
I also can't see how having documents on your computer makes it slower. They take up space on the hard drive, but they don't "clog up the arteries".
I'm not saying the entire instructable is bad, but there are things here that aren't true. As a note, having an antivirus program *will* slow your computer down, as it checks for viruses in the background, as well as every program you run, before it lets you use them. This is not a bad thing, as having a computer clogged with viruses will slow it down even more, but you take a preformance hit because of it, a definate win situation.
Apr 24, 2008. 7:53 PMfwjs28
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i absolutely agree....i am an IT guy at the company i work for and some of the people are so stupid they have all these things installed and then they call me and say get it off of here..its too slow...and i say really.....and then hang up if it someone i hate.....also sometime if u have a rather large backgrounds image it can slow down ur pc....also clearing out as many sartup programs will speed it up while starting up....also deleting games and accesibility things will free up hdd space...altho if ur really that stiff on hdd space u should get an external hd......
Apr 27, 2008. 11:09 AMnf119
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ps. uninstalling most programs (that regular people use) releases system resources since these programs usually has updaters and such running and tons of moniters on the task bar also if the desktop background slows your computer down, maybe its time for an upgrade
Apr 29, 2008. 11:31 AMfwjs28
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i do agree however this is what i did to a friends comp who didnt have $ to upgrade.......
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