Top 4 Ways to Speed Up your Windows XP

After a long time using, you may have found that your beloved computer runs slower and slower than before. What’s more, the speed may even frustrate you when you are playing games with your friends. Due to the slow speed, it is quite possible for you to lose the game. If you are tired of the condition of your computer and want to speed up your Windows XP system, you are in the right place here. In the article, I will show you the top 8 ways to speed up your windows XP in an easy way. Just choose one according to your condition.

Method 1: Defrag hard disk by Advanced SystemCare

Disk fragmentation is a very important factor that caused slow speed of your computer. For example, when you are trying to find certain files, the system will have to search the hard disk to find all fragments if the files are opened in piece. Thus, to speed up your computer, you can try the tool Advanced SystemCare, which can defrag and consolidate fragmented files for you to make your computer response faster.

• 1) Launch the program Advanced SystemCare


• 2) Choose the disk you want to defrag in the starting window and click Analyze


• 3) Click Defrag to defrag your disk

Method 2: Shut Down Indexing Service

Among all applications on your computer, you can find a little app Indexing Service, which can help you search for things on PC faster as it scans the index list. However, since the app will occupy you a lot of CPU and make your computer run slower, you can disable this service if you know the location of your file. This service won’t cause any harm to your machine, whether you search often or occasionally.

• 1) Right-click Start icon of your computer


• 2) Click Control Panel


• 3) Double-click Add/Remove Programs


• 4) Click Add/Remove Window Components


• 5) When you find out Indexing services and uncheck it


• 6) And then close the Control Panel.

Method 3: Speedup Folder Browsing

When you want to browse all folders on your computer and open “My Computer”, you may have experienced the sudden delay. In fact, the delay appears since Windows XP will search for network folders automatically and printer when you open Windows Explorer. It is very easy to fix the problem and speed up the search speed. The only thing you need to do is disable the Automatically search for network folders and printer option to speed up your worn computer.

Method 4: Disable Performance Counter

A very important factor that makes your computer runs slower is the so called “Performance monitor” feature, which can monitor performance of your computer in many areas. However, the feature just takes up many system resources on your computer, you’d better disable it to free out more system resources to speed up your computer.

• 1) Download and install the Extensible Performance Counter List. Then launch it.


• 2) Select each counter in turn in the Extensible performance counters window and clear the performance counters enabled checkbox at the bottom of the window.

The methods above are only part of the top 8 methods to speed up your computer, we provide you the rest four methods in the other article. Please just turn to the rest four methods to learn more about how to speed up your computer better!

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Top 4 Ways to Speed Up your Windows XP