if you're planning on getting the most out of your pc you could set your os partition file system to fat32. This does limit your os partition to a maximum of 4gb or something like that per file. And it does limit you in setting security options but it does increase your speed in file operations. Doing this for the partition where your swap file is on might be good to. But then you can't have swap file above 4gb. Also you could turn off file indexing on your drives. This does improve your drive speed but it also makes the "search" option in windows alot slower.
And btw another thing i was just thinking about. What software do you use to keep your computer "clean" besides a virus scanner and/or firewall. You should think about getting a registry cleaner (like jv16 powertools). And a disk defragmenter program (like perfectdisk) i prefer the 2 above but you should try looking around for around programs if you don't like them.
Also you should try limiting your startup programs (which you probably already know) using msconfig. And stop any unnecessary services (using services.msc) like printer spooler if you don't have any printers, task scheduler if you don't use it and loads of other services You don't think you use. The descriptions are next to it and they also point out the dependencies on other services. So just look around in it.
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