How to Increase XP NTFS Performance
People often misunderstand the importance of fixing errors in their computer system and suffer from low performance. As you install programs in your system, it starts getting slow and unresponsive. It is very important that you take proper measures to improve the performance of your computer. Most of the problems that take place in a computer are the result of a lack of maintenance which includes cleaning, disk defragmenting and checking. Follow some simple techniques to increase XP NTFS performance.
Instructions
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Use disk cleanup
In order to improve the performance of your XP NTFS performance, you should start with the disk cleanup. For this, you must choose ‘All Programs’ from your ‘start menu’ and hover the mouse to ‘Accessories’ and choose ‘System Tools’. Here you will have a couple of options, you must open ‘Disk Cleanup’ by clicking on it. Now, choose the drive that you want to clean. This process may take time depending on the size of the drive. You should wait for it and delete all unnecessary files that the disk cleanup shows you. -
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Run disk defragmenter
After the disk cleanup process is complete, you must choose the ‘Disk Defragmenter’ from ‘System Tools’ and run it on all of your drives one by one. The disk defragmenter can take a few hours as it scans the hard disk for bad patches and tries to fix such errors. It is extremely helpful in improving the speed of your hard disk and safeguarding your data. The basic purpose of this tool is to search the file fragments on your hard drive and join them together. This not only allows the computer to access them easily but it also reduces the operating time of these programs. -
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Run disk check
It is highly recommended that you should run the disk check on your computer. The aim of the disk check function is to locate bad sectors and prevent your hard drive from getting damaged. For this, you must right click on the ‘C Drive’ and choose ‘Check Now’ as this will start scanning the disk for errors. If there are any errors on the hard disk, it will ask your permission to fix them, which you should allow. -
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Disable unnecessary programs at start up
You must disable unnecessary programs at Windows start up. For this, type ‘msconfig’ in the ‘Run’ and uncheck all the programs that you do not want to run.
