Eliminate unwanted programs from boot up: You will find that many of the programs you install on your system set portions of themselves to run automatically when you start up your computer. Each program that runs on startup not only consume system resources but also extends the length of time it takes your PC to [...]

Windows XP stores a couple of values in its registry which are responsible for determining how long to wait before shutting down open applications and services once the shutdown command has been given.
By editing these two settings and changing them to lower values, you can considerably decrease the amount of time that Windows XP needs [...]

Here are some tweaks (that I use for my modem) that will help you get the best possible speed for your 56K modem.
1)First of all download the latest driver for your modem, from the manufacturer’s website.

Windows XP SP2 takes up a lot of space on our hard disks. My ‘Windows’ folder is almost 2 GB in size.
Here I show you how to gain some space by cleaning SP2.
During installation, SP2 will create a restore point. Restore points takes up a lot of space and can be cleaned by going to [...]

The page file (virtual memory) is the part of your hard drive that the Operating System uses as though it were main memory. The OS uses virtual memory when the physical memory cannot hold the data that the application requires it to. Since hard drives are much slower as compared to RAM, accessing data from [...]

The tweaks mentioned below are for speeding up Windows XP.

Disable boot virus detection:This feature is available for some motherboards. If enabled it will scan your boot sector for virus infection every time you start your system. As boot sector viruses are rare now, it is safe to disable it. Disabling it will also speed up [...]

xp-AntiSpy is a neat little utility to automatically apply different settings to the operating system, which could also be done by hand, but at a higher expense of time.
It’s latest version 3.95 can be downloaded from here

Below I have mentioned a few tweaks that will give your system a boost in performance. Please note that these tweaks are for Windows XP.

Format your hard drive using NTFS file system which is faster and more stable
Defragment your disk drives twice a month for faster data access.Click Start > All Programs > Accessories [...]

Many people are not aware of the Windows Registry and why it is important to regularly clean it.
The Registry is Windows internal database which records an entry for every software you install and use. It even stores information of each user’s profile and hardware devices which is continuously reffered to by Windows.
If you are like [...]

Wow! This really helped me
Fasterfox provides performance and network tweaks for Firefox.
It has the following features:

Prefetch Links

Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with Fasterfox’s unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.

Tweak Network

Fasterfox allows you to tweak many [...]