The Cidaemon. Additionally, the Cidaemon. However the indexing service builds a SQL database of keywords it finds in files. This means that to get at the information compiled by the indexing service, the Search Companion sends an SQL query to the database, which then returns the information to the Search Companion. This can be a frustratingly slow process, even on very fast machines.
Besides the feature and performance issues with Search Companion, the indexing service works in the background, scouring almost every file that it finds. On a new system, the indexing service can take days to settle down. This is because the service puts a low priority on its work. Despite this low priority, the indexing service can cause serious performance degradation, especially in lower-end machines because the computer's hard disk runs continuously.
A much better searching alternative is to turn off the indexing service and use Agent Ransack by David Vest. From the Agent Ransack website: "Agent Ransack is a free tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. Agent Ransack provides compelling advantages over similar search tools: Regular expressions that allow complex rule based searches.
Immediate contents results view. Various wizards to walk the user through the searching process. Agent Ransack is provided free of charge for the benefit of the Windows community.
If you find it useful please register it, free of charge. Turn off themes and visual effects. As ridiculous as that sounds, if you want a very responsive user interface because you are more interested in getting work done than looking at XP's Fisher-Price graphics, then turning off themes and visual effects has got to be the best idea since sliced cheese spread. You might not like what you see, but it will be faster. You can disable all of XPs visual effects by right-clicking the Desktop and selecting the "Properties" menu item, select the "Appearance" tab.
In the dropdown box under "Windows and buttons", choose Windows Classic style. Tweak 8 Get more RAM. The more the better. If you have sufficient RAM, you may not ever hit the pagefile again, depending on the applications you use. XP will run ok with no pagefile and you have enough RAM, though some old, badly-written applications, and some more modern ones that need to allocate huge amounts of space, such as Photoshop by Adobe, might throw an out of memory error if there is no pagefile.
The point is, the more RAM you have, the less reliance you have on a pagefile, which is kept on much slower hard disks. RAM is always faster than a hard disk and more RAM will reduce your system's reliance on the pagefile. If the pagefile isn't needed, XP won't use it, but even with 4GB of RAM, memory-hungry applications may still need to utilise the pagefile.
Also, some applications need to use the pagefile no matter how much RAM you have to spare. One such feature in XP is the automatic search for network printers and folders. Automatic search periodically polls your network to check for new shared resources and adds relevant icons into My Network Places if anything is found. Microsoft's documentation on this feature is contradictory. In one sentence Microsoft state that the feature "does not add a great deal of overhead to your Windows XP computer's work load", implying that it does add some overhead, though they are not willing to state the level of that overhead.
In the same documentation Microsoft proceed to state that if you have a small network where few resources are added or infrequent changes are made, or if you use a laptop that is regularly disconnected from the network then " Click the View tab.
Click OK. Tweak 10 Don't disable unwanted Windows services. Does that tweak surprise you? How can doing nothing be considered a performance tweak? There are thousands of requests on Internet Web forums and Usenet newsgroups for advice on services that can be disabled, and there are an equal number of Windows-related Websites offering lists of services that can be disabled.
So, given that large body of knowledge and apparent expertise in service disabling, you may be surprised to learn that kadaitcha. Why is it so? There are four main reasons. First, services that are loaded often do not run when they are unused.
When a service starts up, it tells the Operating System that it needs to be invoked when such and such an event takes place, and the OS dutifully does not invoke the service until such and such an event actually does take place.
Thus the service lies dormant until it is invoked by the operating system. Services like the Indexing Service and Perflib Performance Monitor, see Tweak 11 execute at regular intervals and can be disabled if they are causing performance issues, but there are very few other services in this class. If you need proof of this, just start Task Manager and look at the list of services sitting there, doing nothing other than consuming marginal amounts of RAM.
Second, disabling services that you feel you do not need now can lead to major problems when you do need a certain disabled service to run. This is especially going to be a problem if you forget that you have disabled particular services and are unaware that you need the service running to use an application.
What happens if you disable the Windows Fax and Scan service, then, say some months later, decide to install Microsoft Office, for example, and try to send a fax or scan a document from within Office? It isn't going to work, and unless you immediately remember that you've disabled the Windows Fax and Scan service, you're going to be spending far more time troubleshooting the problem than you will save over the entire life of several computers by disabling it.
Since caches are intended to boost performance, it should be obvious that disabling a cache will reduce performance. Third, any performance gains from disabling services that don't execute unless they're needed anyway will be so insignificant that you will not be able to perceive a performance increase at all. So, if a performance gain cannot be perceived, why bother? To be worthwhile, a performance tweak must have a perceptible performance gain, and the best you can expect from disabling unused services is a few hundred nanoseconds in operating system boot time, which in the scheme of things for today's PCs, is much less than a small fraction of the time it takes to blink.
Fourth, there are a number of idle-time tasks that must be performed on a regular basis by the OS. The Task Scheduler runs at regular intervals to check if the system is idle, i. It is pointless to disable tasks that only run when the system is not being used. So don't disable apparently unused, running services or tasks.
The data is continually written to the registry and retrieved by performance monitoring tools, such as System Monitor. The issue with this process is that if you are not using any monitoring tools then the data is being written to the registry for no good reason, however this is balanced by the operating system maintaining a registry cache in memory.
If you do not use a performance monitoring tool or any third-party desktop gadgets that report performance data then you can disable all performance data gathering. To see the amount of activity generated by performance counters, type perfmon. You will not be able to use System Monitor or any other tool that uses Performance Library perflib data. Performance will merely be reported as 0 or , depending on the counter.
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. XP Tuning Tips. Status This thread has been Locked and is not open to further replies. The original thread starter may use the Report button to request it be reopened but anyone else with a similar issue should start a New Thread. Watch our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. XSkylerX Thread Starter. Joined Feb 10, Messages I found this website for tuning XP and it seems to help out quite a bit.
I use most of these tips just not the registry editor ones when building pcs for other people and I havent had any problems yet. Joined Sep 8, Messages 11, Howdy, Didn't find anything new there for me Just my option. Joined Jul 8, Messages Well if it serves your purpose and is helpful to you Joined Dec 6, Messages Hi - I'm somewhat new at this computer stuff and I have to say that while I have been learning and making mistakes System Restore has been my best friend.
I can try something and I know that if I messed up then I can basically go back in time as if I never pressed that wrong button. As Seen On. If this change is too radical for you, you can try experimenting with the different individual settings as well.
The indexing service is a program that indexes files on your computer to speed up search results when you perform a search. It usually wakes up and starts doing it's job when your computer is idle. That's the reason why some pc's hard disks often start making a lot of noise when nobody's working on them. The indexing service is also mentioned in a lot of performance tips for Windows XP, because it can interfere with your work. If you don't perform a lot of file searches on your pc, you might want to disable the indexing service.
Besides the performance benefit, you will also enjoy improved stability and security in comparison with the FAT32 file system. With support of Nevio webshops.
Optimize your paging file Windows XP uses a paging file on your hard disk to store information when the amount of available RAM memory isn't sufficient to hold all the data that is being processed. Click the Start button, right click "My Computer" and select "Properties" Select the "advanced" tab Under "Performance" click on the "Settings" button Again, select the "advanced" tab Under "Virtual Memory" click on the "Change" button Windows will then show the available hard drives in your computer and the paging file settings for each drive.
Optimize display settings A lot of performance tips for Windows XP talk about the overall sexy-ness of Windows XP and the performance price you have to pay for it. Click the Start button, right click "My Computer" and select "Properties" Select the "advanced" tab Under "Performance" click on the "Settings" button Click the "Visual Effects" tab Select the "Adjust for best performance" radio button and click ok If this change is too radical for you, you can try experimenting with the different individual settings as well.
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