defrag yes or no ?

Question

Windows start up takes ages to settle,bugs are not the problem, any ideas to speed it up ?

Answer 1

Yes Defrag give gud speed to ur HDD

but here is
some tips so u can speed up ur Win XP

There are quite a few services you can disable from starting automatically.
This would be to speed up your boot time and free resources.
They are only suggestions so I suggestion you read the description of each one when you run Services
and that you turn them off one at a time.

Some possibilities are:

* Alerter - Sends alert messages to specified users that are connected to the server computer.
* Application Management - Allows software to tap directly into the Add/Remove Programs feature via the Windows Installer technology.
* Background Intelligent Transfer Service - The Background Intelligent Transfer service is used by programs (such as Windows AutoUpdate) to download files by using spare bandwidth.
* Clipbook - ClipBook permits you to cut and paste text and graphics over the network.
* Error Reporting Service - Allows applications to send error reports to Microsoft in the event of an application fault.
* Fast User Switching - Windows XP allows users to switch quickly between accounts, without requiring them to log off.
* Help and Support - Allows the XP Built-in Help and Support Center to run.
* IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service - You don't need this if you have other software to create CDs.
* Indexing Service - Indexes contents and properties of files on local and remote computers; provides rapid access to files through flexible querying language.
* IP SEC - Manages IP security policy and starts the ISAKMP/Oakley (IKE) and the IP security driver. If you are not on a domain, you likely don't need this running.
* Messenger - Transmits net send and Alerter service messages between clients and servers. This is how a lot of pop-up windows start appearing on your desktop.
* Net Logon - Supports pass-through authentication of account logon events for computers in a domain. If you are not on a domain, you don't need this running
* Network DDE - Provides network transport and security for Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) for programs running on the same computer or on different computers.
* NT LM Security Support Provider - Provides security to remote procedure call (RPC) programs that use transports other than named pipes.
* Performance Logs and Alerts - Collects performance data from local or remote computers based on preconfigured schedule parameters, then writes the data to a log or triggers an alert. If you don't need to monitor your performance logs, then you don't need this service.
* Portable Media Serial Number - Retrieves the serial number of any portable music player connected to your computer
* QOS RSVP - Provides network signaling and local traffic control setup functionality for QoS-aware programs and control applets.
* Remote Desktop Help Session Manager - Manages and controls Remote Assistance. If you are not using Remote Desktop you don't need this service.
* Remote Registry - Enables remote users to modify registry settings on this computer.
* Routing & Remote Access - Offers routing services to businesses in local area and wide area network environments. Allows dial-in access.
* Secondary Login - Enables starting processes under alternate credentials. This is what allows you to run an application as another user.
* Smart Card - Manages access to smart cards read by this computer.
* Smart Card Helper - Enables support for legacy non-plug and play smart-card readers used by this computer.
* SSDP Discovery Service - Enables discovery of UPnP devices on your home network.
* TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper - Enables support for NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) service and NetBIOS name resolution. This should not be needed in today's network environment.
* Telnet - Enables a remote user to log on to this computer and run programs, and supports various TCP/IP Telnet clients.
* Uninterruptible Power Supply Service - Manages an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) connected to the computer.
* Universal Plug and Play Device Host - Provides support to host Universal Plug and Play devices
* Upload Manager - Manages synchronous and asynchronous file transfers between clients and servers on the network.
* Volume Shadow Copy Service - Manages and implements Volume Shadow Copies used for backup and other purposes.
* Web Client - Enables Windows-based programs to create, access, and modify non-local files across the Internet.
* Wireless Zero Configuration - Provides automatic configuration for the 802.11 adapters
* WMI Performance Adapter - Provides performance library information from WMI HiPerf providers.

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Cleaning the Prefetch Directory

WindowsXP has a new feature called Prefetch. This keeps a shortcut to recently used programs.
However it can fill up with old and obsolete programs.

To clean this periodically go to:

1. Star / Run / Prefetch
2. Press Ctrl-A to highlight all the files
3. Delete them


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Increasing Graphics Performance

By default, WindowsXP turns on a lot of shadows, fades, slides etc to menu items.
Most simply slow down their display.

To turn these off selectively:

1. Right click on the My Computer icon
2. Select Properties
3. Click on the Advanced tab
4. Under Performance, click on the Settings button
5. To turn them all of, select Adjust for best performance
6. My preference is to leave them all off except for Show shadows under mouse pointer and Show window contents while dragging

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Speeding Up the Display of Start Menu Items

An easy way to speed up the display of the Start Menu Items is to turn off the menu shadow.

1. Right click on an open area of the Desktop
2. Select Properties
3. Click on the Appearance tab
4. Click on the Effects button
5. Uncheck Show shadows under menus

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Increasing System Performance

If you have 512 megs or more of memory, you can increase system performance
by having the core system kept in memory.

1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\DisablePagingExecutive
3. Set the value to be 1
4. Reboot the computer

Answer 2

Before you do a defrag perform the Scan disk. Also delete as much from your drive as possible. TEMP folder contents, Internet temp files , purge as much as you can. No sense in defragging a bunch of crap only to delete it later. This will also speed up the defrag as you will not be moving as many files.

A Defrag can't hurt to do even if the software says one isn't necessary.

Also check to see what and how many programs are auto starting upon windows start. You can turn off the auto start on things like flash player, skype, IM ect... Also check in the registry as there is a list of programs which are starting up as well as the ones in your START menup STARTUP folder..

Answer 3

Increase available RAM by running only what programs are necessary. As to whether you should defrag, Windows will do an analysis and tell you if it needs defragmentation when you start the defrag program. I do it about once every couple of months.

Answer 4

no longer basic force defrag is large for keeping the force prepared and regaining overall performance lost simply by report fragmentation. It ends up in much less paintings for the force and has greater than a number of advantages. yet, registry 'optimization' (notice the rates) is efficient-or-omit affair. each each now and then it would desire to help somewhat, however the hazards are too severe...in case you decrease to rubble the registry, you will would desire to re-deploy homestead windows. for nicely-known equipment maintenance, i'd purely persist with anti-virus scans+ undercover agent ware scans + disk cleanup + disk defrag, if I have been you.

Answer 5

u can speed ur pc by doing the following:
1-remove the non necessary windows startup items by running msconfig.
2-try to run a registry fixer to clean up ur registry.
3-if u ar using xp or visra try to minimize the visual effects from control
panel/system/performance/visua... effects.
4-reduce ur display resolution and don't use a big file for wallpaper.
5-run a good file defragment program like diskeeper which is able to defrag ur hard,the MTF,and the pagefile.
6-set ur windows page file not less than 1,5GB(the value should be 1.5 time more than the ram size).
7-use a good utility like tuneup utilities,this utility include registry cleaner,hard disk cleaner,hard disk doctor,system optimizer,ram optimizing, startup windows tuner,internet optimizing,and windows style tuner.....or u can use a free utility like ccleaner.
8-use an antivirus that only take a few resources from ur system like NOD32(best antivirus ever)...and best free one is AVG.

Answer 6

Couldn't hurt. Also check your startup programs. Go to Start, Run, then type in msconfig and click the Startup tab and choose to cancel some programs on startup that you don't use.

Answer 7

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never worry about defragging ever again

Answer 8

remove all unnecessary startup programs

get a startup manager....that'll do the job

u can also goto the startup folder in all programs....and delete all startup items