I have a very powerful and fast machine. Sp3 has made mine Quicker. I also use FF. If you are running at P3 level you may want to stay away from this, Remember the larger the Scuirity systems grow then so does the machines need for Ram.
Allot of people have not tuned their Computer for there personal taste. The boot time is slowed up by reading Ports and devices that you may never use anymore.
Things to turn off in the Bios Cmos: warning Danger Get help
1. If you are not using a old 9 pin serial mouse or the serial port for anything then turn them off, Some computers have serial port A & B.... 9 pin mouses went out 8 years ago.when they they went to ps2 inputs.
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Everything now is almost USB2.0 input.soon even pS2 will be Void. Printers, cammeras, Ext drives, add in Devices have all gone USB2.0
If you are not using the old type of printer with the old biggest pin port on the back, or if you are using a printer with a USB hook up then by all means turn the parallel port OFF
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If you are using a usb Mouse and a usb Keyboard the turn off the PS2 hookups.
4 If you dont Boot with a Memory stick Turn off Boot From USB DEvice
5. IF you no longer use a floppy drive and floppy Disks, You are Right TUR THE off. You have to turn The Floppy off in a few places, IF you ever need floppy use again you can always turn it Back on
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IF U dont know how to do this stuff get help. Changing the Wrong ITEM in the BIO'S Setup could cause your Computer not to start.
7. I believe we have a post in this forum on how to speed your computer up.
Most people With Stock Computers are running and loading up a ton of stuff they never use or need. SLOWING DOWN THE COMPUTER AND THE BOOT UP TIME.
If You are not using Netmeeting Dump It If you are not using your computer as a SERVER then kill those features
There are pages and pages of thing you can remove out of you Computer that is no longer valid or of any use to you. Dead end Shortcuts that point to nothing. folders with Zero bytes in them, Keyboard settings for the folks in transelvania. I have a headset and steer my friends over the phone how to disable all the junk a computer is packing, I wish I could do this for all the brothers and sisters...remember these thing were made so
even the farmer in Bosanwana could use it. I have seen XP computers with as manny as 2000 dead entries things pointing to things that are not there,
when you un-install a program from your computer XP leaves all kinds of left over folders and files it will never use again and keeps a useless log of all of the junk inside.
your prefetch folder in windows, you can safely delete everything in there once a week. I recommend a better uninstaller a freeware program that does a much better job. it is called
REVO UNINSTALLER. you just would not believe how much faster your computer will run when you toss all the needless excess weight overboard.
SP3 has all the Hardware Fixes in one package unlike SP2 installing a piece at a time. SP3 has all the Scurity updates, Hot Fixes, CPU updates MIrcode updates. VB62 updates many many ups all in one package incluiding all of the SP2 patches and Fixes.
. Trim the Sails matee and Gods speed ahead....
