Re: I want a lean, mean PC machine!
- From: frodo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 18:24:47 -0000
\I386 at the root of your drive is most likely the XP install directory.
removing it isn't going to make the machine any faster, tho it will free
up some space. back it up first!
leave \prefetch alone, it makes your machine faster.
recycles is the trash can, empty it. run Disk Cleanup util to delete
other temp stuff. again, it's not going to really make a big diff.
as said, the 2400 is not a very fast machine, it'll never win any races.
the usual things can improve speed: disable unnecessary startup
items/service, defrag the drive, be sure to let Task Scheduler Service
run, and leave the machine idle for an hour or so, so that the
boot-optimize defrag can run. [run manually: defrag c: /b] [this is the
guy that uses the layout.ini file inside \prefetch, which is built from
all those .pf's in there]
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