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too stupid for words (and i should have known, win98's behaviour was awfully similar...)

one would expact that xp would be smart (ahum) on machines with lots of ram...

well...

not on mine! (1 gig)

after loading program number 5 or six, xp started to swap out stuff to the harddrive, even though there was 500..700 mb still free

yeah, i know, 'balanced' is supposed to give equal opportunities to system cache and applications, but appearently it likes to keep ram free (duh)

solution? easy (you know what's coming): change config! either "adjust best performance for system cache" or use something like cacheman and fool around with the related options

another little annoyance: when running software that monitors temperature (such as hmonitor) or other stuff on your mainboard, your harddrive might show some continuous activity... after reading up a little, that has to do with SMART functionality... which, on some drives, means that the drive head does its little dance without you being in control, i'm not sure but is SMART on hdd's supposed to do this all the time?

anyway, enabling SMART on your machine slows it down (drive access times increase a little) and reading temperature from enabled drives somehow causes head movement as well...

but, then again, you all already know this...

Just installed a new state of the art PC myself, and I couldn't believe how slow it was with XP and a few proggies installed. Then I found a very good tweaking guide on http://clankiller.com/tech/WinXP/ an especially the instructions about "services" helped speeding things up. Now I have fun again !

taking out indexing and restore points did most for general speed on my machine

changing the way memory was used was not something i expected to have to specify, most modern machines have at least 512 mb...

(ah, just tested, the behaviour is not noticable at 512 mb, there is somewhere a hard number within xp to keep memspace available, appearently set to 512, also some it looks like the *number* of programs / applications running counts in some way, very weird... well, anyway, it works better now )

here's another tip: got a w98 machine somewhere in your network that you (incidently) browse to? and it's sloooooooooow? (pausing 10..30 seconds?)

i've seen several solutions, but most didn't work... however, three did:

1. disable netbios (duh, it could mean you can't access the w98 machine anymore, depending on your settings and bindings)

or

2. stop the browser service, for example using the following batch file (change to needs):
or

3. stop the network browsing service