As you know System Restore can be a useful if your computer is having problems, it runs in the the background and takes up space on your hard drive. These are advantages and disadvantages of turning off your System Restore.

Advantages
Free up space on your hard disk and increace your computer performance.

Disadvantages
You will lose your restore points all together and you can’t restore your computer to a previous date.

It is very important that you consider both the advantages and disadvantages of turning off System Restore before doing so. This is a decision I leave up to you. If you make decision to turn off you computer, you can follow these steps:

1. Log on to your computer as a user with administrative rights. If not, you won’t be able to turn of System Restore.

2. Click on the Start Menu button, click All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore.

3. You click on the System Restore Settings.

4. Then choose Turn Off System Restore on All Drives to disable System Restore and then click “OK”.

5. Click Yes to confirm that you want to turn off System Restore. That’s all!

In this page, I’ll show you
how to speed up folder access on your computer
. Why you need to speed up folder access? In my opinion, you need to do that if you have a lot of folders and sub directories on your computer. Because when you access a directory, your windows system will wastes a lot of time updating the stamp showing the last access time for that directory. So you need to disable access update to stop your computer from doing this. Follow these steps to
speed up folder access by disable access update
on your computer.

1. Click on
RUN
, type Regedit in the open box and then click “OK”.

2. Find

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > System > CurrentControlSet > Control > FileSystem.

3. Create new
DWORD Value
called

NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate

by right-click in a

blank area of the window on the right and then select
DWORD Value.

4. Double click on
“NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate”
, change the value data to 1 and then click OK. That’s all. :)

Do you know that you can make your computer shutdown faster in about one second? Super Fast Shutdown is an amazing utitility to make it for you. It is a utility that will make your computer shutdown or restart faster instantly…Yes! I mean your computer shutdown/restart in about one second! So far I have no problem with this utility but I could not say this utility has no problem. I just wanted to share my experience using this utility and in my opinion, Super Fast Shutdown is absolutely fantastic. For those who wish to try this utility, you can follow these steps:

1. Download Super Fast Shutdown from www.xp-smoker.com

2. Extract the files and double click on the setup file to install Super Fast Shutdown on your computer.

3. After you finish install the utility, you can click on the Super Fast Reboot or Super Fast Shutdown when you wish to shutdown or restart your computer and you will notice that how fast your computer shutdown/restart.

www.xp-smoker.com:
Warning: Superfast Shutdown is extremely powerful! Use at your own risk! Although it has never been reported, regular usage could possibly cause disk corruption.

Hi!! This time I’ll show you how to make your “My Computer” opening faster on Windows XP. Many of my friends ask me, why “My Computer” so slow to displaying anything to me? Can you help me to fix this problem? please.. : ) Emmm.. actually, we can solve this problem easily, and most of you probably already know how to fix this problem. But I think I need to explain it for those who didn’t know how to fix this problem..especially my friends..hehe

Ok..let’s we start it.

1. Double click on “My Computer” and then click on the Tools > Folder Options to open up Folder Options.

2. Then click on the View tab and then uncheck “Automatically search for network folders and printers” and click on “OK”.

That’s all..hehe.. you should notice that your “My Computer” should opening faster now.

As you know, windows services start when your Windows XP is booted and it will run in the background as long as your Windows XP is running. Many of these services running automatically when your Windows XP is booted and they can make your computer slow down. There are many windows services are needed but some of them can be turn off safely.

So today I’ll show you how to make your computer faster by turn off unnecessary Windows XP services. Before we begin I suggest you to make a restore point because if something happens to your computer you can go back to an earlier configuration. So this is good option for you to avoid a lot of damage to your computer.

Let’s begin by click on Start Menu > Run > type services.msc and then click “Ok” to launch Services utility.

As you can see there are many services and from here you can change startup type to automatic, manual or disabled by double click on it.

How to turn off the windows services? Simply double click on the service that you want to disable and then click Stop. When the service is stopped, click on the Startup type and then select Disabled to disable the service.

Below is a list of unnecessary Windows XP services that you can be turn off safely:

AdobeLM Service:
It is useless. Disable it if you have it.

Alerter:
Disable it if you are not on a network

Automatic Updates:
Disable it if you don’t need this service.

ClipBook:
Disable it if you are not on a network

Computer Browser:
Disable it if you are not on a network

Error Reporting Service:
Enable you to report errors to Microsoft. This service is useless, you can disable this one.

Fast User Switching Compatibility:
Disable it if you don’t use this feature much.

Help and Support:
Disable this service if you don’t need it. By disable this service, the Windows Help and Support center will not be available.

IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service:
You can disable this service if you don’t have a CD Burner.

Indexing Service:
Disable this service because it uses a lot of memory.

IPSEC Services:
This service is used to manage IP security policy. You can set this service to manual.

Messenger:
Disable it for your good..hehe

NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing:
To enables an authorized user to access your computer remotely. I think you can disable this service for security issues.

Performance Logs and Alerts:
You can disable it if you never read the log files. : )

Portable Media Serial Number Service:
Set this service to manual.

Print Spooler:
Don’t have a printer? You can disable this service if you don’t have a printer. This service is necessary for printing only.

Remote Desktop Help Session Manager:
You can disable this service if you don’t use remote desktop function.

Remote Registry:
To enables remote users to modify registry settings on your computer. Disable it for your good.

Routing and Remote Access:
You can set this service to manual.

Removable Storage:
Set this service to manual.

Security Center:
Disable this service.

Server:
Disable it if you are not on a network.

Smart Card:
You can disable this service if you don’t have a smart card.

Telnet:
You can disable this service if you are home users.

Terminal Services:
Set this service to manual.

Uninterruptible Power Supply:
You can set this service to manual.

Universal Plug and Play Device Host:
Set this service to manual.

Windows Image Acquisition:
Set this service to manual.

Wireless Zero Configuration:
You can disable this service if you don’t have any wireless network adapter.

WMI Performance Adapter:
Disable it.

Workstation:
Disable it if you are not on a network.

I hope this article helps you to make your computer faster by turn off unnecessary Windows XP services. : )

In my previous article, I gave tips how to use MSCONFIG to make your computer startup faster. So today, I’ll show you how to use BootVis.

What is BootVis? BootVis is a tool that allow you to check how fast your Windows XP takes to boot and then you can optimize the boot process with BootVis. BootVis was formerly a Microsoft product and now the Microsoft is no longer providing it.

This is what the Microsoft site has to say about BootVis:
Bootvis.exe is a performance tracing and visualization tool that Microsoft designed to help PC system designers and software developers identify performance issues for boot/resume timing while developing new PC products or supporting software.

Please note that Bootvis.exe is not a tool that will improve boot/resume performance for end users. Contrary to some published reports, Bootvis.exe cannot reduce or alter a system’s boot or resume performance. The boot optimization routines invoked by Bootvis.exe are built into Windows XP. These routines run automatically at pre-determined times as part of the normal operation of the operating system.

But i wonder why people still looking it. In my opinion, people still looking it because they just want to try to using it and this tool maybe can help them to reduce their Windows Xp boot time. I also still use it to help me to make my computer faster. My own pc boot time was reduce from 80 seconds down to 33 seconds. It is not much but I think it’s not bad at all. So today I decide to explain how to use BootVis to make your computer faster (boot faster).

1. First download BootVis from www.soft32.com

2. Double click the BootVis icon to start BootVis.

3. To optimize the boot sequence, firstly you need analyze the boot sequence. So click File > New > Next Boot + Driver Trace to analyze the boot sequence.

4. The dialog ask you how many times you want BootVis analyzing the boot sequence and then click OK. Usually 1 repetition is enough for BootVis analyzing the boot sequence. After clicking button OK your Windows XP will reboot.

5. After reboot has been complete, BootVis will appears showing you a graph about your boot sequence timing.

6. So now select Trace > Optimize System menu. After clicking on Optimize System, your system will reboot again.

7. After this dialog appears, the BootVis will take a few minute to complete the optimalisation and your system is optimized.

I hope this article can help you how to use BootVis to make your computer boot faster and in my next article I’ll show useful tips to make your computer faster than ever before. :)

My Tips:

• Re-run BootVis after installing new driver or software on your computer.