Windows XP: make it faster

September 10th, 2005

to enable faster machine start up:
1. disable system check for idled IDE channel (control panel - system - hardware - primary (or secondary )IDE channel,
2. change this binary value to 1: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters

to remove annoying netowrk not available tray icon, remove the following reg try
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{7007ACCF-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}

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