Windows speed in general, how do I speed it up?

[Spanky]

I find windows slow, I don't mean just no my machine but on pretty much every machine I try.

My machine is a p2 333mhz, 192 megs of ram, a voodoo banshee and 2 drives, an older 3 gig and a newer 10 gig, 7200 RMP.

Due to a virus problem a while back the 10 gig is just storage and games, the 3 is my main drive. I realize my first thing should be reinstalling windows on the 10 and making that my main drive.

K so I have tried newer durons and P3s and they still don't seem much faster at most windows functions then mine.

Like opening up an explorer window to look around a folder or starting up IE.

What can I do to speed that up?

I'm doing an upgrade this month but I'm pretty sure that still won't do it.


So are there some tweaks I can do besides putting the OS on the faster drive and putting it on network server and such?

So...

What can I do with my next system to speed it up? Because ram is so cheap i'm thinking of getting 512 megs of ram, would running a raid disk system make it faster too? Some funky cache setups?

Maybe I'm just an impatient guy but I hate the way even on faster systems windows still feels slow.

Thanks for any help.

[By-tor & the Snow Dog]

Set your swap file.

Use cacheman

download winboost 2001 gold (Many, many options for many, many people.) [especially speeding up the start menu, and the boot options section!]

That's a good start.

Defrag regularly, and don't forget to floss!

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By-Tor

That's with win 95, 98, 98se, or me. With win2k you'll need diskeeper, cacheman won't work, but you can specify your page file.

Good Luck!


[This message has been edited by By-tor & the Snow Dog (edited 07-05-2001).]

[solo-pc-tech]

First, run Windows 2000 with 512MB DDR or PC133RAM on a 133 or 266MHz FSB motherboard.

Second, buy the fastest hard drive you can afford. WD 400BB is a very good drive.

Third, control the items that load at startup. Don't use Norton SystemWorks or anything like that.

Fourth put your pagefile on your second hard drive.

That's a start.