PC Magazine Windows XP Speed Solutions

by Curt Simmons

Get that snail out of your system "In these pages, you'll find all kinds of tips, tweaks, hacks, and configuration settings that should help you regain some speed control over Windows XP. I'll also... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764578146
• ISBN13: 9780764578144
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Wiley Publishing
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Windows XP Speed Solutions

PC Magazine is always a great source for computer technical information, and this book is a good example. It is technical yet easy enough for lay people to read and understand. Each topic is independent of the others, so if you are looking for a specific solution, you can find it. I recommend it.

Windows XP Speed Solutions

Simple, easy to understand steps to improve the performance of Windows XP.

Fast and fun.

Easy to use. Actually had me doing, and using my computer in many different ways. Having more fun now, just knowing how to tweak my unit.

restoring faith in xp

easy to use,easy to understand and best of it's effective.several steps either preformed alone or as a step by step process have effectively streamlined my operating system.some things were obvious and are already done by most users as basic maintenance. other things brought to light actually amazed me.i could not believe that i was so in the dark and uninformed/misinformed in regards to xp operating system. speed an my faith in xp have been restored!!

sysadmin tasks for you to do

On any computer, regardless of operating system, disks can relentless fill up. On unix machines, there may be sysadmins to combat this. But on XP PCs, especially in homes, the only sysadmin is you. And you are probably not a computer professional. The topics here are sysadmin tasks that a user should periodically do. Not all of these necessarily pertain to speeding up your machine. For example, when Simmons talks about deleting adware/spyware and cleaning up cookies, any speed increase is surely slight. But those particular tasks are such good practice that you should not hold it against him for including them in this book. Ah, but things like adjusting virtual memory can have dramatic effect on some machines that have tool little for their tasks. Though you may pay attention to most pertinent thing he says here. Which is that in some cases, adding virtual memory will not improve matters if you actually have too little RAM. Beef up the latter, perhaps? And turn error logging off. The book correctly says that few of you need it. Will free up some clock cycles.