Make Windows XP boot up faster
Wednesday
Dec 21, 2005
What’s a better way to make Windows XP boot up faster than doing a fresh install?
Yes, it’s as simple as that–or complicated if you have a lot of apps to reinstall.
I recently made fresh installs of XP on my desktop and laptop, and got quite a performance boost.
In fact, many techies would recommend reverting to fresh installs every so often (about once every six months) to declog your system of all that unneeded junk you tend to collect in the course of your everyday computing and Internet browsing. I’m not sure about the case of Linux users, since it’s either their systems are stable enough even after months of heavy use, or because it may be too tedious to do that reinstall after all the kernel and app modifications.
Of course, part of the fresh Windows installs include the requisite AVG antivirus and Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D anti-spyware. And make sure you update your Windows XP with Service Pack 2, if not already embedded in the installation (older copies are likely to have only SP1 or none at all).
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