All Windows operating systems have never had the best settings during installation default. Part of the reason for this is the fact that the installation base of the OS simply enormous - it is many times higher than the base installation of other operating systems (although it could be, if all the rest gather together, it is something close and hope. Regardless of how well could be streamlined any of the Windows operating system, Microsoft is forced to balance mezhy performance, ease of use and compatibility with the entire world.

It just so happens that Windows XP itself suggests that it should be something done. (I then suggest what to do - format c. XP interface was conceived to give the OS a pleasant, natural, friendly type, but as a result of falls that any visual effects, such as shadows and discarding smoothly vydvigayuschihsya menu, a lot hinder the work of the entire system. Such important and necessary utilities, such as System Restore, can help restore a functioning system after failures or identify all kinds of incompatibilities is easier and safer than ever before, but they also eat up disk space as troglodty, and the quiet and inconspicuous work in the background selected by the CPU time, obdelyaya other applications, such as bourgeoisie world proletariat.

Optimizing code predictions are present in the nucleus as XP, and in the Task Scheduler service. The kernel is beginning a list of resources to which a particular process is drawn, immediately after its establishment. Service Scheduler transforms these records in the instruction predictions for the process. The next time you create process kernel executes instructions predictions, accelerating the creation process.

Icons and wallpapers

A good desktop - is an effective desktop. For your computer's RAM and processor you can find a much better use than playing with simpatichnenkimi sorting software and eighty five icons on the desktop. As with the previous versions of Windows, and desktop icons and wallpaper are constantly in the memory, and means constantly updated graphical system. A very animated desktop system resources eat so much that my mother did not baluysya.

Disable effects
In addition to the simple ability to change skins, Windows XP in terms of visualization has a much better chance than any of the Microsoft OS before. Menu can be animated, the dialog boxes and mouse cursors can be shadows, screen fonts are configured for maximum readability, and so on.

All of this is very nice, but we should not forget that all these visual effects and the ability to slow down the work of the user interface. XP when installing automatically (and quite hidden from the user) walk several systemic tests to determine the best from their point of view (if the operating system can be view) configuration graphical user interface, which should combine the beauty and convenience of use (for the definition of the latter I am very like the term "usability"). But at the stage of installing OS solutions can be fairly easy to change. If smoothly outlier menu more annoying than pleased with the eyes, a shade of the dialog boxes you worry less than the birth of a child in the tenth Chinese family living in the Himalayan foothills, you can experiment with a calm conscience with visual settings from the operating system and make it their own, sole and unique golden mean.

Some of these settings are accessible via the Appearance tab (issue) Display Properties dialog box (Properties screen), access to which can be obtained by clicking on an empty space on your desktop and selecting from the popup menu Properties (Properties). Click on the Effects button, and the resulting dialogue customize the behavior of a menu, shadows and font properties but want your soul. Regarding fonts, it immediately and you will find the opportunity to enhance new technology smoothing screen fonts, Microsoft invented, called ClearType. With regard to its use, I have my personal opinion. I think that enables ClearType display fonts are well on the screens of laptops and LCD monitors, but on the ordinary CRT screens better to disable this option, so it makes an image somewhat blurred. In doing so, I have friends who have totally opposite view, it is believed that the ClearType on flat panel screens just looks disgusting. So you better themselves and try to take their own decision on this.

Also on the Advanced tab (Optional) Performance Options dialog (Setting productivity) make sure that the use of the processor and memory configured to work with the programs (indeed, it is this option is enabled by default). Configure memory and processor for optimal cache baseline services and the services you may need only if you ask the server. Here you have the ability to specify the size and location of the system swap file. Although, in fact, Windows XP has done tremendous work, managing the size of its own swap file automatically, we must acknowledge that she is doing is just fine. The most intensive testing, which included a synthetic tests and benchmarks and game, convinced us complete absence of any need to set parameters swap file manually.

Fast User Switching
Fast User Switching is available in XP Home Edition and Professional. When the computer is not a member of a domain, the fast user switching allows users to the same computer switch between accounts without breaking the system.

Now let's see what it is threatening. Suppose the head of the family worked, worked, tired and left open Word and Excel. then came his youngest daughter and with a bit pobalovalas Barbie Fashion Designer and favorite program is left open. He came with her older brother Institute, switched its account and with malice on the teacher sopromatu decided to play a bit in Red Faction. And then he waits for disappointment, then he will have to realize that the performance of the system has plummeted compared to the times when he played on weekends, and all the other members of the family left to give or who do not adjust to the poor computer memory heap unnecessary younger oboltusu programmes.

Automatic Update
Already on experience from previous versions of Windows can be concluded that the best way out continuously monitor various new patches, bug fixes, updated versions of DirectX, solutions to the problems of interoperability and any other updates. Tut WinXP is not an exception. See for yourself how many upgrades it has already issued MS, although most OSes, and even less than six months. But you do not need to independently monitor the output of all these updates will not have to find links to various news sites dedicated to computer subjects or hard digging in the depths of inexhaustible megabytes site itself MS. By default, all that work for you doing itself XP. One would have to rejoice in such a touching care about the user. No threads is that this requires a small program, forever hanging in the background and regularly checks or reminds you to check for new updates to Windows.

Rescue system (System Restore)
System Restore belongs to the category of really useful applications, so as long as you do not decide for themselves what programs or games that you use every day, demand from the computer more than he can give in this state, you better left in the System Restore alone. This service periodically creates "a quick snapshot" of all important system files (such as the system registry files, databases COM +, user profiles, etc.) and saves them as a "point of recovery." If you suddenly Styles install the program, which violated the operating system works, and you can safely return to the previous state in which it was to continue to work about anything without worrying.

The points are generated automatically restore service System Restore when a series of events, such as the installation of new software, the implementation of the procedure for updating the Windows installation nepopisannogo driver, or any other developments could adversely affect the work of the operating system. Just who does not prevent any user to create their own restore point manually at any time. Naturally, the work of the service affects the productivity of the system, and the saved information on the locations recovery took place on the hard drive. You can control the volume svobdnogo places accessible to the System Restore (which ultimately affects the number of points of recovery, which could create the service), or disable it altogether. Foodstuffs all these operations on the System Restore (Recovery WebBuilder) System Properties box (Internet Systems).

The points are generated automatically restore service System Restore when a series of events, such as the installation of new software, the implementation of the procedure for updating Windows, the installation of unsigned driver, or any other developments could adversely affect the work of the operating system. Just who does not prevent any user to create their own restore point manually at any time. Naturally, the work of the service affects the productivity of the system, and the saved information on the locations recovery took place on the hard drive. You can control the amount of free space available to System Restore (which ultimately affects the number of points of recovery, which could create the service), or disable it altogether. Foodstuffs all these operations on the System Restore (Recovery Systems) System Properties box (Internet Systems).

In active service System Restore can significantly affect system performance, particularly hard it shows in the various performance tests, and the test lab always disable System Restore in the OS like XP and Me before the tests.