How to clean your PC | Windows XP

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13 ways to speed up my PC (manually):


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Attention
Don't forget to scan your computer with antivirus (remove of viruses) install antivirus and antispyware (remove of spyware) install antispyware.

How to speed up computer 13 ways

Load your computer in Safe Mode (if you can not load properly) and begin:

1 Way. Windows XP cleanup - Speed Up My PC
Disc clean up: Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Disk Cleanup, select С drive and ОК

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Windows XP cleanup
select follow rows Downloaded Programs Files, Temporary Internet Files,
Recycle Bin, Temporary Files
, then ОК and ОК

2 Way. Windows XP cleanup - hard drive testing
Hard drive testing - this option will check the drive for errors:

  • Close all files and programs.
  • Click Start and My Computer.
  • In the My Computer window, right-click С drive and click Properties.
  • In the Properties window, click Tools.
  • Then click Check Now
  • In the Check Disk dialog box window, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box.
Check the drive for errors
and click Start.
If the bad sectors are found, choose to fix them.
If this process has failed, regenerate bad sectors.

3 Way. Windows XP cleanup - Speed Up My PC
Remove $NtUninstall and .log files - click Start, in the open box, type C:\Windows and press Enter. Find and delete all the files: $NtUninstall and .log

4 Way. Windows XP cleanup - Remove Temp files - Speed Up My PC
Show protected operating system files:
Start - Settings - Control Panel - Switch to classic View - Folder Options - View,
in the Advanced settings window, unselect follow rows:
Hide extensions for known file type,
Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)

and select: Show hidden files and folders,

Show protected operating system files
click OK.

Then Start - Run, in the open box, type C:\Windows\Temp, and ОК, remove all the files and close window. Double-click My Computer - Local disc: C - Documents and Settings - user's name - Local Settings - Temp, select and remove all the files, close the window. Double-click My Computer - Local disc: C - Documents and Settings - user's name - Local Settings - Temporary Internet Files, select and remove all the files, close the window.
Hide protected operating system files:
Start - Settings - Control Panel - Switch to classic View - Folder Options - View, in the Advanced settings window, select follow rows:
Hide extensions for known file type,
Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)

Do not show hidden files and folders,

Hide protected operating system files
click OK.

5 Way. Windows XP cleanup - Speed Up My PC
Remove unused components of Windows XP - they further use of computer resources - click Start - Control Panel - Add or Remove Programs - Add/Remove Windows Components, unselect all unused Windows XP components, select follow components:

  • Accessories and Utilities
  • Internet Explorer
  • Networking services
  • Outlook Express
  • Update root certificates
  • Windows Media Player
 Remove all unused Windows XP components
then Next - Finish. Restart computer.

Attention
You can also install components of Windows XP, but will need a disk with Windows XP.

6 Way. Windows XP cleanup - Windows startup programs
Increase a speed of startup for Windows XP. Start - Run, in the open box, type msconfig, then click ОК and Startup. Unselect all unused programs from the list and

Increase a speed of startup for Windows XP
click Apply - OK . Restart computer.

7 Way. Windows XP cleanup - Add Remove programs - Speed Up My PC
Remove all unused programs - more space, more reliable operation of the PC. Click Start - Settings - Control Panel - Add or Remove Programs, in the opened window select unused program, then on the right click Remove

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and then follow the instructions to remove.

8 Way. Windows XP cleanup - Disc defragmentation - Speed Up My PC
Increase a speed of Windows XP - click Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Disk Defragmenter, in the opened window select disc drive, click Defragment. It starts the defragmentation process - it takes 0,2 - 2 hours.

Disc defragmenter
In the Disk Defragmenter window, click Close.
Disc defragmenter
Repeat for all the drives.

9 Way. Windows XP cleanup - Speed Up My PC
Doping for the hard disk - UDMA66 - Start - Run, in the open box, type regedit, click ОК. In the opened window on the left double-click:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
SYSTEM,
CurrentControlSet,
Control,
Class,
{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318},
{0000}
,
on the top of window click Edit - New - DWORD Value, type EnableUDMA66

Windows XP optimization
and Enter.
On the top of window click Edit - Modify , in the
Windows XP optimization
opened window, type 1, click ОК.

10 Way. Windows XP cleanup - Speed Up My PC
Rebuilding damaged Windows XP .Dll files - click Start - Run, in the open box, type cmd, click ОК. Type: sfc /purgecache and Enter. You must see: Windows File Protection successfully made the requested change.

Rebuilding damaged Windows XP .Dll files

11 Way. How to clean your registry - software registry cleaner
Registry Cleaner - detail in the pictures, but if you are sure in yourself, you can clean up registries yourselves - 12 way. If your computer works well again, you can do next - 13 way, else you need System Restore.

12 Way. How to clean your registry - manually registry cleaner
Registry Cleaner - remove the recording has been erased or improperly erased computer programs - click Start - Run, in the open box, type regedit, click ОК. In the opened windows on the left double-click inscriptions:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
SOFTWARE
,
right-click the name of the program (already erased), then click Delete - Yes .
Click Start - Run, in the open box, type regedit, click ОК. In the opened windows on the left double-click inscriptions:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
SOFTWARE
,
right-click the name of the program (already erased), then click Delete - Yes.

13 Way. Windows XP cleanup - Speed Up My PC
Remove all restore points. Click Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Disk Cleanup, select C drive and click ОК, calculating, in the opened window (the second picture of the way 1), on the top click More Options, then click the third button Clean up from the top, then click Yes - OK - Yes.

If cleaning of the Windows XP manually and software will not help, go to the next stages:
Windows XP System Restore or Windows XP install.

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