[The Blue Meanie]

I quote from a recent letter to the IT section of a national British newspaper:
"In your article on Windows XP, you claim that its [Luna] appearance has no alternativee. Actually, if you go to Control Panel, System, Advanced, Performance, and select 'Adjust for best performance', Windows reverts to something almost indistinguishable from the Windows 98/2000 desktop."

[John B. Smith]

I wish they had something like that for OS X

[Nile Crocodile]

For best performance I suggest a reformat and a Linux install.

[chris v]

For best performance, step outside, and holding your XP disk firmly in right hand, launch into oncoming traffic, with a smooth side-hand motion.

CV

[MikeM32]

Topic: How to adjust Windows XP for "best performance"

Turn it off and get a Mac?

Mike

[sek929]

Its easy. All you have to do to get the most out of XP is get a Dual processor machine and upgrade to XP pro. Geez, with a solution as easy as that I better put my Mac on eBay post-haste.

[austeros]

put it in the microwave and make a cool looking coaster

3 seconds aught to be enough

[Creation]

Originally posted by chris v:
<STRONG>For best performance, step outside, and holding your XP disk firmly in right hand, launch into oncoming traffic, with a smooth side-hand motion.

CV</STRONG>

What if you're left-handed? You'll probably throw it behind you and it'll land on the welcome mat totally unharmed.

[shanraghan]

Well, adjusting Windows XP for best performance depends on what you consider 'best performance'.

For me, military performance is best.

Just meld some aerodynamic razor fins onto the CD(s), load into a modified crossbow, aim fire and slay Microsoft Tech Support bloodily. &gt;.^

[Immortal K-Mart Employee]

Originally posted by Nile Crocodile:
<STRONG>For best performance I suggest a reformat and a Linux install.</STRONG>

You Linux people are worse then Mac users.

[Millennium]

How best to adjust Windows XP "for optimum performance"?

Typically, I find an acetylene torch seems to work well. Failing that, a buzzsaw will suffice. But if it's a real emergency, an axe will do in a pinch.

Or, there's my simple Three-Step Process to Get Better Performance from WinXP:[list=1][*]Sell PC on eBay.[*]Buy a Mac.[*]Forget about WinXP.[/list=a]

[typoon]

Give XP CD to US military and have them launch at Taliban.

That would be XP's best performance

[ 11-14-2001: Message edited by: typoon ]

[superlarry]

give your computer fins, a spoiler, and a racing stripe. maybe put a fan on yourself so you *think* you're speeding along. and wear sunglasses. there, now you're cool for having XP.. almost.

[suprz]

Originally posted by MikeM32:
<STRONG>

Turn it off and get a Mac?

Mike</STRONG>

mike, you read my mind...

[Raman]

Actually I was going to post a thread asking why my emachines p-3 500 with 192 megs of ram feels MUCH faster than my pismo 500 with 1 gig of ram.

I dusted off the 'ol emachines to do some COM programming in Visual Basic and decided to come on over to MacNN and realized how fast my PeeCee is compared to my Pismo at doing stupid things like web browsing!!

What gives?!!!

[applenut1]

wow, either you guys are in serious denial or have serious problems.

[ap]

Originally posted by Raman:
<STRONG>Actually I was going to post a thread asking why my emachines p-3 500 with 192 megs of ram feels MUCH faster than my pismo 500 with 1 gig of ram.

I dusted off the 'ol emachines to do some COM programming in Visual Basic and decided to come on over to MacNN and realized how fast my PeeCee is compared to my Pismo at doing stupid things like web browsing!!

What gives?!!!</STRONG>

Im actually surfing right now on a pentium1 133 mhz with 32 mb ram and windows 95, and its also much faster than the G3 350, 192 mb, OS 9.1 that I usually surf on.

Macs are cool machines, but they are slow compared to windows machines. Especially in web-browsing, fileopening, and jpeg viewing.

ap

[typoon]

Originally posted by Millennium:
<STRONG>How best to adjust Windows XP "for optimum performance"?

Typically, I find an acetylene torch seems to work well. Failing that, a buzzsaw will suffice. But if it's a real emergency, an axe will do in a pinch.

Or, there's my simple Three-Step Process to Get Better Performance from WinXP:[list=1][*]Sell PC on eBay.[*]Buy a Mac.[*]Forget about WinXP.[/list=a]</STRONG>

Millennium, You could combine step 2 and 3 since if you buy a Mac you can forget about XP then there would be no step 3.

Sorry had to bring that one up

[juanvaldes]

Originally posted by Raman:
<STRONG>Actually I was going to post a thread asking why my emachines p-3 500 with 192 megs of ram feels MUCH faster than my pismo 500 with 1 gig of ram.

I dusted off the 'ol emachines to do some COM programming in Visual Basic and decided to come on over to MacNN and realized how fast my PeeCee is compared to my Pismo at doing stupid things like web browsing!!

What gives?!!!</STRONG>

you do realize that web speed is all your connection speed. A little comes from the browser which would then depend on the processor. Nothing magical.

[seanyepez]

Juan, you're very mistaken.

Earlier this year, someone compared Mac browsers versus PC browsers. Mac browsers were smoked by PC browsers in every test, losing by a margin of 80% or more.

One of those old (top-end) 733-megahertz G4 Power Macs lost to a Pentium II 233 if I recall correctly.

I love my Pismo/500 a lot, but I don't find it very practical considering my Pentium II/266 notebook is considerably faster. And I'm not even going to talk about my VAIO or Athlon desktop.

[vsurfer]

Seems the computercounterculture in the UK has someting to spray I mean say on the matter:
http://freespace.virgin.net/andrew.harrison4/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/22837.html

[FERRO]

erase it and use the expensive software install disk as a coffee table coaster.... "for optimum performance"...