Repair

Slow Desktop Windows® XP

Just like any other man made machine, Windows® XP Desktop also needs periodic maintenance by which you can keep it running smoothly. You have the right to keep an eye on the software that you are installing on your Computer, some malicious programs running in the background can slow down the Windows® XP Desktop. These problems sometimes seem too be very simple and easy to solve but sometimes they are require the treatment like to fill some dental cavity. You can do some things that will make your Windows® XP Desktop to run as fast as possible as it did when you first installed it. Some of the tips to improve the performance of Windows® XP Desktop on your Computer are as follows:

• Detect and Repair Disk Errors
• Optimization of Pagefile.sys
• Remove unused icons from Desktop

Detect and Repair Disk Errors

Hard disk is the storage space on your Computer which stores all the information that you share with system like files, programs and applications. As you keep on adding and removing these files and folders from computer, some bad sectors are developed on Hard disk. Over time, these bad sectors increase in number that it slows down the performance of hard disk. These culprits may sometime even make hard disk access difficult or even impossible. Starting up of Desktop requires the permission of hard disk as all the applications placed on Desktop are actually stored on hard disk. But the bad sectors present on Hard disk do not allow opening these applications due to which Windows® XP Desktop becomes extremely slow. You can use the built-in tool of Windows® XP to check and repair these Disk errors. The tool is known as Error checking Utility.

Optimization of Pagefile.sys

RAM is Random Access Memory that is responsible for the execution of all the programs on Computer. The pagefile is known as another RAM and is used as cache memory. All the data that is commonly used by Desktop applications is stored on the pagefile. Configuration of pagefile is automatic if you have less than 512MB of RAM, but if it is more than 512MB then you need to do it manually. You need to select ‘Advanced’ tab in ‘Properties’ of ‘My Computer’. Under ‘Performance’ choose the ‘Settings’ button to set the configuration of Pagefile.sys.

Remove unused icons from Desktop

In order to improve the performance of Windows® XP Desktop, make sure that there are very few number of application icons on the Desktop. It is very important for the increased speed of Desktop start up and refreshing process. Some of the unused icons on Desktop consume memory and processing time which degrades the performance of Windows® XP Desktop.

Hence, with the help of any of the above explained idea you can become successful in improving the performance of Desktop of Windows® XP.