You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 3. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Shenan Stanley. What routine maintenance do you perform? Might want to run through this list and perform every step as given, in the order given. Do some house cleaning and dust off that hard drive: You may wish to free up some disk space will also aid in getting rid of things you do not utilize by going through these steps: Windows XP should take between 4.
You can control how much space your System Restore can use You can control how much space your Temporary Internet Files can utilize You can use an application that scans your system for log files and temporary files and use that to get rid of those: Ccleaner Free!
Cleanup the Update Components on your Windows XP machine It is a good idea at this time to make sure you continue getting the updates you need. Then use this fixit: How to obtain the latest version of the Windows Update Agent How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. And my desktop does not work on batteries, so powermanagement is no suspect either. I must say that I have quite a bit of experience of Windows 7 now because I am using Windows 7 daily on at least one of both machines.
I guess that the problem lies a bit deeper in the Windows 7 system. I suspect that it has something to do with the handling of the keystrokes in Windows 7 in combination with the other programs running in the background. Programs losing focus or something. When I am using Remote Desktop to connect to the office I have some other programs running as well. This set of programs are causing the problem on my desktop quite often.
It feels like the program I am using at that moment on the remote connection for instance an editor or notepad temporary looses the focus for keystrokes to another program such as Outlook or IE8 and once I move my mouse it immediately gets the focus back. The keys I am typing are shown again, sometimes stuttering first.
I am convinced that if I manage to get this problem solved on my desktop I will have the solution for the laptops too. I am axperiencing the same issue To see where the resources where being used, I installed cacheman on the xpmode side which is an optomization and system information program and it seems that at least on my machine hp laptop dual core 4 gig ram windows 7 64 bit windows xp mode is only running on one core. If I have a 2GHz dual core cpu and xp mode only uses one core, would I not now have a 1ghz single core system to run xp?
I believe they were making a 1ghz processor back in Now I am trying to run current or close to current software a system effectively 10 years old and you think that the "bottleneck" in not the cpu????
Alright, this tweak involves editing some power options for virtual pc. This definately disabled some power saving feature as I can hear the cpu fans running full time now when they were not before.
A very small price to pay for the increase in performance! Disabling "Auto Publish" fixed the issue of delayed typing and sluggish performance. Thanks Glade. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro?
Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Sign in to vote. Using XP Mode, when I type, it seems to fall behind me and then catches up and then falls behind. It's as if typing on a terminal window over a network with high packet loss It seems similar if I move things around the screen.
I have the latest nVidia video drivers. Stop unnecessary start-up programs. Limit the number of programs that automatically start when your computer turns on. Click the Start button then Run. Type "msconfig" and click OK to open System Configuration. In System Configuration, go to the Startup tab and uncheck any programs which are not required. If you are not sure what some of the programs listed are, you can search them up online to see if they are safe to disable.
Click OK on the System Configuration window to save the changes. If you encounter problems after disabling some startup programs, re-open System Configuration and choose "Normal Startup" from the General tab. Programs can also schedule unnecessary tasks to launch automatically when Windows starts. To stop such tasks, use Windows Task Scheduler. Disable all Services you do not use or need. Right click the services you want to disable and select "Properties", then set the start-up type to manual to disable them.
Disabling the wrong services may lead to serious problems that you may not notice right away. You should not disable services if you are not experienced in this area. Free up graphics resources. Turning off the fancy Windows XP graphics will noticeably increase the speed of your computer. Go to Start, right click Computer in the Start menu, and click Properties. Go to the Advanced tab.
Click the Settings button under Performance. Select the "Adjust for best performance" option, then click OK. Set Page File size. Go to Start, right click Computer, and select Properties.
Now switch to the Advanced tab of the new dialog box that opens and click on '"Change" under Virtual Memory. Change 'Initial Size' to the same value as 'Maximum Size' then click set. Thrashing is bad for your computer and buying RAM it's not that expensive is much more worthwhile. Set Priorities. Once Task Manager opens, click the Processes tab. Now, find "explorer. This makes your computer focus on explorer. This method greatly increases speed of Windows Explorer and if other programs you use are slow, you can also set their priority.
Upgrade your RAM. More RAM allows programs to start and run faster. Upgrade your CPU. Doing so increases program performance. Upgrade your graphics. Video editors, gaming, photo editors, etc will benefit from this. If you're considering a new computer, do your research before deciding what to buy. A wrong choice may cost you more money or get you a worse computer.
Click OK. Right-click My Computer and select Manage. If you want a faster computer, turn indexing off. As your disk fills up with data blocks, reaching the bits you want takes more seek time.
Additionally, modern hard drives typically have larger amounts of cache allowing your drive to spend less time seeking platters to retrieve the data you want now. They are slow performers.
Go Western Digital Black for best performance. Most new hard drives come with software that will allow you to clone your existing disk to the new one in 30 minutes or less. Installing Applications and browsing the web creates temporary files. For a while they help you do things faster, but XP has no mechanism for deleting stale temp files, so they just pile up.
When enough of these files exist, XP performance will be impacted. CCleaner is a free utility that can pear down the amount of temporary files on your system using the C leaner tab. Here are the relatively safe options I tend to select for clearing temp data using CCleaner :.
CCleaner can also help you pear down your start-up items. These are generally programs that run when your computer starts and end up in the notification area or background. Windows Services are service applications that run behind the scenes and allow your computer do to everything from browsing the internet to sharing files and folders. There are Windows services those services are part of the XP operating system and third party application services installed by some applications.
Many of these third party application services are not critical for your computer to function and some will hamper performance. The Services management dialog allows you to start, stop, enable and disable various services. Do not modify these services:. NOTE: As a good rule of thumb, I usually set services not part of the list above to Manual before completely disabling anything.
This way the service is not completely blocked from working, just blocked from starting automatically with your computer. Apple device and helper services are a good example services that fall in this category. Microsoft has chosen not to force developers to use a single standardized installer, so some applications uninstall cleanly and some leave lots items behind.
IObit uninstaller is a great free tool to cleanup files left behind by poorly developed uninstallers. As you create data on your computer, it stores files in random unoccupied spots on the hard disk. Over time as your disk becomes more and more utilized, the random placement of all these files also known as fragmentation will become an issue that can affect XP performance.
Defragmenting the hard drive means organizing data randomly stored on your hard drive into contiguous blocks and optimizing free space. This should be done quarterly. Manual Local System Alerter Notifies selected users and computers of administrative alerts. If the service is stopped, programs that use administrative alerts will not receive them.
If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start. If this service is stopped, out-of-process requests will not be processed. If this service is disabled, this computer will not be able to use the Automatic Updates feature or the Windows Update Web site. If the service is stopped, features such as Windows Update, and MSN Explorer will be unable to automatically download programs and other information. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it may fail to transfer files if they do not have a fail safe mechanism to transfer files directly through IE in case BITS has been disabled.
If the service is stopped, ClipBook Viewer will not be able to share information with remote computers. If the service is stopped, SENS will close and will not be able to provide logon and logoff notifications. Manual Local System Computer Browser Maintains an updated list of computers on the network and supplies this list to computers designated as browsers.
If this service is stopped, this list will not be updated or maintained.
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