Microsoft Windows XP Unleashed

Chapter 11. Tuning Windows XP’s Performance

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Monitoring Performance

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Optimizing Startup

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Optimizing Applications

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Optimizing the Hard Disk

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Optimizing Virtual Memory

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More Optimization Tricks

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We often wonder why our workaday computer chores seem to take just as long as they ever did, despite the fact that our hardware is, generally speaking, bigger, better, and faster than ever. The answer to this apparent riddle is related to Parkinson’s Law of Data, which states that data expands to fill the space available for storage. On a more general level, Parkinson’s Law could ...