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By: Top Posts - JohnTP.com

Top Posts - JohnTP.com — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:40:57 +0000

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By: johntp

johntp — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:26:19 +0000

Tony- Create a new folder say ‘C:\Fonts_backup’. Go to Start>Control Panel>Fonts. In the ‘Fonts’ folder that opens, select all the fonts. Drag and drop them into the newly created ‘Fonts_backup’ folder.

You may now experience some problems with your display. Do not worry, Windows XP will install the basic fonts needed for proper display in the ‘Fonts’ folder.

Now that your system has the minimum fonts, go back to the ‘Fonts_backup’ folder and select a few fonts that you may need such as Arial, Times New Roman and Verdana and copy them back to your ‘Fonts’ folder.

That’s it! If you removed a significant number of fonts, your system should boot faster now.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:49:34 +0000

Tony,

Before you start worrying about fonts you probably need to do alot of other things first.

Go here:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html

You can run through the whole guide but I recommend the following to correct boot times:

1. Steps 1 and 2 completely
2. Step 4 – #4 + #9 (#9 is critical for optimal boot times)
3. Step 5 – Autoruns, Disk Defragmenter, Page Defrag
4. Step 7
5. Step 8

Do all of that first and then check your boot times.

By: Tony C.

Tony C. — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 01:22:15 +0000

My computer is older and it takes approx 14 min to fully boot up. I’ve followed your tweaking comments and I now think that I’m a little font crazy. How do I know which fonts I can remove and which XP needs to run?

Thanks,

Tony C.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 03:41:27 +0000

Disabling System Restore is a Myth and so is moving the Page File to a partition on the same HD.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html

By: johntp

johntp — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:10:35 +0000

Do you mean how to enable the service?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:02:49 +0000

Hi! My name is Chris and I work at Help.com. One of our members posted a question and after finding your blog I thought you might have the expertise to respond either with an answer or at least a resource recommendation. This is the question that was posted.
“How do I reinstall wireless zero configuration services on my laptop?”

Thanks!

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Personal and Technology Blog » Faster Windows — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 07:43:43 +0000

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Path 2 Tech » Blog Archive » Tweaks Win XP — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:57:21 +0000

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Tweak Win XP — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:09:49 +0000

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