Speed up Windows XP

I know there are way too much tips about speed up Windows XP, but these are what I consider, the easiest way. Though it might not on your taste. I for one, looking for performance than eye candy.

1, Windows theme

Forget about all those fancy themes. Get to the classic one, and you’ll get the best performance, well, not yet the best, but it speed up opening windows and start menu.

2, Windows performance

Right-click My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> (Performance) Settings. Use the custom and select onlt the one you think best fit you. You don’t need all those fancy fade in, animate minimizing windows and etc. It is a waste of resources.

3, Taskbar

Cut down the use of taskbar. There’s no use to open all applications like MSN, YM etc. Go to MSN and uncheck the startup with windows. Those slow down the starup speed dramatically.

4, Startup

A lot of programs like to startup with Windows, some program you hardly use, some program require you to click them in order to open though they have a startup item. Go to Run -> msconfig -> Startup. Uncheck your application. Becareful because those also include Windows systems file too. Uncheck only the one you think you know.

5, Windows registry

There are too many shit happen in the registry and it’s complicated at first. A lot of my friends don’t dare to touch there. Now, go to Run -> regedit. Especially in HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. There is a SOFTWARE folder, look into there. Sometimes when you uninstall a program, the registry are still there, which mess up the registry and eventualy slow down the whole computer processing.

6, Defragmental

This is the time taking part. So in order to save sometimes, I recommend Auslogics Defrag (Freeware) which use lesser time than Windows original Defragmenter. This only need to do once in a while, you don’t need to do it everyday though.

These are for me. I don’t know what you looking for in a computer. I don’t play games, I don’t fancy about the eye candy theme. All I did is to maximized the operating system performance. Now I have the faster Windows I ever had. Welcome screen only stay for less than a second and I’m in desktop. Though I have to admit that it’s the processer that helps me achieve the speed.

Acer Aspire 4930 no G

Recently I bought this new laptop for good. Due to my heavy commitment on web developing, I desperately needing some IE and some other 3D software that run only in PC. Initially I was thinking to convert or using bootcamp on my Macbook, but after thinking a while, I’ve got a defeated DVD ROM with very limited hard disk space on my Macbook. So I go with a new laptop instead. However, Macbook is gonna be with my younger sister soon though.

Back to the laptop. Acer Aspire 4930 come with Linpus linux operating system. Due to some software requirement, I formatted it into Windows XP, the one I haven’t been using for the pass 2 years. However, the drivers CD that comes with this laptop was Vista compatible only, which means I’ll have to look for the drivers myself. My research came out a lot on 4930G model, though it has a better graphic card, the rest are still the same. It was a breeze experience back with Windows XP nonetheless. This is my Aspire spec:

Intel C2D 2.0GHz T5800
3GB DDR2 RAM
160GB HDD
GMA 4500MHD
Dolby Sound System
802.11 g/b/Draft-N
Bluetooth 2.0+ EDR
5 in 1 card reader

Overall the performance is way better than the previous desktop I’ve tested (Dell Inspiron and HP Pavilion), probably because they’re running on Dual Core only. There will be more about Windows soon

Running Mac OS in a PC

This has been done thousand of time, some of my friend even stick to Mac OS on their PC. No more waiting to save money until acne coming out just for an Apple product. Now, it comes to me about the Mac and PC machine, when I say machine, it’s about machine. Of course it’s more or less about the operating system as well.

1, Mac and PC, now it’s only about the machine. Nothing big about the machine anymore. Ever since Mac OSX can be installed in a PC, everyone tend to buy a PC or some PC clone came to the market.

2, It’s about design now. Though some (If not most) people still using PC. It depend though, some people buy a Mac machine because it is the Mac design, people will know he/she is using a Mac. Ok, it’s the ego Or sometimes, it’s about ethic.

3, Software. There’re actually 3 type of operating systems in the market. The revolution of using Intel on a Mac makes the possible of all operating systems to be install in all kind of computer. We’re all living in a great world isn’t it

Last thing I know, Apple better legalize and sell Mac OSX operating system only.

Long live Windows XP

Just when I was about to get a new laptop PC, I get this news that Microsoft gonna expand the support and selling Windows XP OEM machine in the market.

It means that I get the chance to change any Vista machine to XP without worrying about the drivers problem. I think most computer and laptop would come out Windows XP drivers though they use Vista as their OEM? It’s shitty and really time consuming when I looking for driver for my previous HP desktop.

Windows blackout my foot

There were rumor around the internet that Microsoft is going to bring an update that gonna “blackout” all the piracy Windows users. It’s been weeks and nothing much I found, nobody mentioned about the experience yet. So I guess it’s just something they claimed for fun?

Many people find it as a marketing strategy that used by the Microsoft in order to ask Windows users to upgrade to Windows Vista. Heh, sure Vista is still new and not much of piracy happen on it. Well, sure it is that Malaysia has too much piracy users, but how a “blackout” could make them change or even worse get a valid license? It’s weird though, because the CEO of Microsoft claimed that they’re gonna support Windows XP for another few more years, why rush anyway?

Anyway, anyone tried TinyXP? I heard that it’s only weight 55MB for the whole system to install. Even hackers also love feeding dietpills to the program I’m sure A lot of people would love it, not only it’s small in size, Tiny XP can be installed on an old machine that has only 40MB or RAM!