Fresh Install of Windows XP Professional SP3 :D

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Okay, I plan on following Bodaggit's "Slow Windows?" tut when I get home and back at my computer.

Other than removing unwanted processes and services, is there anything else I can do to optimize my speed performance on my Dimension 2350?

2.19 GHZ Intel Celeron Processor (I thought it was 2.9GHZ... lulz lulz lulz)
1024MB Memory
80 GB HDD Western Digital
64MB Integrated Graphics (Upgrading to: EVGA 512-P1-N402-LR GeForce 6200 512MB 64-bit DDR2 PCI 2.1 Video Card in a few days when it gets here)
Audio - Integrated
CD-RW+ Drive
DVD-ROM Drive
Microsoft Lifecam VX-700
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All drivers have been updated to latest versions and the following is installed other than just Windows XP:

Driver Genius 9.0
WinRar 9.x (Most Recent Version)
Mozilla Firefox 3.x (Most Recent Version)
MalwareBytes (Most Recent Free Version)
World of Warcraft 3.2.0 (Don't hate :P)

I plan on installing ESET Smart Security 4 for firewall/AV/Spyware package, but I realize that there may be less resource intensive options available so I'm open to recommendations.

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Thanks for the help. Please list ANY ways to help me keep my computer light, clean, and as fast as I can possibly push it!

:D
 
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There's one way... :P


Umm.. You already did Run> "msconfig" > startup and selected all the unwanted programs you want to start up?
Defrag and diskclean and all that good stuff too?
Other than those, there really isn't that much you can do (and the stuff on the tut "slow windows?")
 
:P Thanks Aviation. Yeah I'm running all the cleaners/defrags etc. tonight. I mean I literally just did the fresh install to get rid of some hacked Win7/XP version I had before, last night so there's not a whole lot I've done with it.

I'm going to set it up for weekly maintenence like back in the day when I was on my proud eMachines.. But I'm just looking for ANYTHING other than that.
 
There are plenty of things you can do to speed it up. Click the Windows + R to bring up the run command. Then type services.msc and hit enter. That brings up all the services. You can disable the un-needed ones like Fax, Print Spooler (if you dont use a printer), Tablet, etc...

Edit: If you feel confident in regedit you can do some tweaking in there too
 
I just pulled off a 30 second boot time! Disabled all the crappy services, processes and tweaked my registry a bit.

On a Dimension 2350?!?!? YA DIGGGGGG :P
 
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