The tips on optimizing Windows -XP games proves to be quite fruitful. The following game optimization tips should help you get the most performance out of your PC with a little effort as possible.
This guide consists of some very basic tips and then moves on to the more advanced ones. The advanced tips are not to the disabling of the services for increased performance. However it is difficult to assure about the data loss property.
Tip #1: Clean the adware and spyware off of your PC.
Some websites and many freeware programs will install a wide variety of programs onto your PC. None of these programs has any positive benefit and most of them affect our PC. Not using our computer against such rubbish is the first logical step in improving the performance of your PC.
Lots of websites tries to help against this problem by providing online help, however it would be a tad redundant to try and include any meaningful tutorial on adware detection and removal in this guide.
Rather it would be better to point towards the program that most people use for detection and removal of these troublesome programs. Such programs are available at different sites such /www.lavasoft.com/
They are available free of charge. Most people run this on a regular basis and you should too.
Tip #2: Increase your physical RAM to appropriate size.
Most 3D games these days can needs the addition of more memory to your PC. A full 2 GB of RAM is not considered to be an unreasonable amount. Be sure to adjust your paging file if you do increase your RAM. While increasing your RAM do not forget to use the proper specification.
Tip #3: Defragment your hard drive regularly.
As files are created and deleted on your hard drive they may be written in a non-contiguous manner. This hard disk fragmentation have a significantly detrimental effect on your computer’s overall performance. Fortunately it is quite easy to correct this.
We can access the hard drive tools built into Windows XP by double clicking on the My Computer icon and then right clicking on the drive you wish to defragment and selecting it’s Properties. On the hard drive properties page, select the Tools tab and then click on the Defragment Now button.
Depending on your hard drive size and the level of fragmentation, defragmentation may take several hours to complete. For most people it is probably best to leave the PC defragmenting overnight.
One other item worth mentioning here is, at least 15% of your hard space free in order for disk defragmenter to do it’s thing.
Tip #4: Turn off unnecessary programs that run at start up.
Some people knowingly or unknowingly have an almost huge list of programs that run at startup on their PCs. With all that crap running in the background, it is a wonder they can get their games to run at all. Stopping these programs from running in the first place is a good place to start.
From the start menu, click on the “Run…” menu choice. Type in “msconfig” (without the quotes) and press enter. This will bring up the System Configuration Utility. On the “General” tab, select the “Selective Startup” option. Change the System Configuration Utility to the “Startup” tab. This will show you all the programs that are set to run as soon as Windows starts up. You should try to keep this list as short as possible.
