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1. Don't use wallpaper. Just as in Win 3.xx, fancy wallpaper can slow
down the system. This probably has more to do with what kind of video card
than how much RAM you have.
2. Don't use more colors than you really need. I have personally found
256 colors on my system adequate to meet my needs. Some people need more
colors than this. Some people can make do with 16 colors. Again, this
probably has more to do with your video card than how much RAM you have.
3. Don't use animated cursors. I don't think this has as much impact as
wallpaper, but it still can seem to impact system performance slightly.
4. Set up your CD ROM settings according to your needs. If you don't
access your CD ROM heavily, don't go overboard on the caching or the
optimization pattern (for 2x, 3x, 4x, etc.).
5. Avoid using Sound schemes that comes with Win95 and the system
schemes that comes with the Plus! pack.
6. Take advantage of the well documented registry hack that speeds up
the response of your Start menu. To do this, open the system registry
using regedit and open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Pane
Highlight Desktop. Right-click on the right-hand window pane and chose New
- String Value. Give the new string value a label of MenuShowDelay. Now
double-click on the new string and enter a value from 1 to 10.
7. Closely scrutinize your autoexec.bat, config.sys, win.ini, and
system.ini files. Determine what, if any, entries are no longer necessary
in these files and delete them. Look especially for the loading of 16 bit
real mode drivers that are no longer necessary. |