Re: Lighten WinXP ?

"d'oh". Almost, but no quite, helpful. <roll-eyes> An improvement, but
frankly, you started off on a bad note with me and have thus far - though
more civil in your manner - offered nothing I didn't already know.

As for your <that's a possessive pronoun> being "...sure there are web sites
dealing with making XP run with the least overhead.", you offered no links
(probably because I didn't give you a head start, such as I did at Secunia).
That is not an "invitation" to you anyway, so please don't bother - I can
manage by myself.

Yes... too bad you didn't start off on a more positive, less slanderous
tenor; we'd not be where we have now arrived.

goodbye.

"dobey" wrote in message news:%23KmQqwyAIHA.4496@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Eugenia" wrote:
<snip>
Such as which "some other account" ?


Such as a programs written for XP that allows you to install for current
user only or all users.

Many programs don't ask this question and just install for all users,
meaning it will place a shortcut on the all users start menu. This will
cause the link to appear on all user accounts, current or yet to be
created.

This means it will either recreate the directory tree to the all users
start
menu, or maybe even throw up an error if the directory doesn't exist.

It sounds more like you want to disable unneeded services.

I would suggest you change the Windows Explorer file view to list, and
only
enable thumbnail view or detail view on directories you need them. In
detail
view get rid of extraneous columns like "dimensions".

All of this extra information takes more time to gather and list on the
screen.

Be careful though. Any tweak you make or service you disable may cause
something else to fail later on.

I'm sure there are web sites dealing with making XP run with the least
overhead.

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