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Author Re: How can I make my WinXP Pro PC run faster? (Second HD? SCSI? Dual-Core?) - Budget:
Toby Inkster

2006-09-24, 7:00 pm

ship wrote:

> Looking the WindowsXP "Task Manager" Performance monitor
> it seems that for most of the time the processor is barely being
> used - it's mainly DISK ACCESS that is so slow.

Double your physical memory and disable virtual memory completely. That
tends to give you a pretty good speed boost -- will probably only cost you
about £100.

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