SoFunction
Updated on 2025-04-06

Teach you how to play Win XP registry performance optimization

1. Speed ​​up the power on and off

In [Start]-->[Run]-->Type [Regedit]-->[HKEY_CURRENT_USER]-->[Control Panel]-->[Desktop], change the numerical data of the string value [HungAppTimeout] to [200], and change the numerical data of the string value [WaitToKillAppTimeout] to 1000.
In addition, in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE]-->[System]-->[CurrentControlSet]-->[Control], change the numerical data of the string value [HungAppTimeout] to [200], and change the numerical data of the string value [WaitToKillServiceTimeout] by 1000.

2. Automatically close the stop response program

In [Start]-->[Run]-->Type [Regedit]-->[HKEY_CURRENT_USER]-->[Control Panel]-->[Desktop], change the numerical data of the string value [AutoEndTasks] to 1, and restart.

3. Clear unused DLL files in memory

In [Start]-->[Run]-->Type [Regedit]-->[HKKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE]-->[SOFTWARE]-->[Microsoft]-->[Windows]-->[CurrentVersion], add an item [AlwaysUnloadDLL] to [Explorer], and set the default value to 1.
Note: If the default value is set to [0], this function is disabled.

4. Accelerate broadband access speed

(1) Home version:
In [Start]-->[Run]-->Type [regedit]-->In [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE]-->[SOFTWARE]-->[Policies]-->[Microsoft]-->[Windows], add an item named [Psched], and add a Dword value [NonBestEffortLimit] to the right window of [Psched].

(2) Commercial version:
In [Start]-->[Run]-->Type [], open the local computer policy, select [Computer Configuration]-->[Administrative Templates]-->[Network]-->[QoS Packet Scheduler] in the left window, double-click "Limit the Retainable Bandwidth" in the right window, select "Enabled" and set "Bandwidth Limit (%)" to 0 Application-->OK, and restart.

5. Speed ​​up the menu display

In [Start]-->[Run]-->Type [Regedit]-->[HKEY_CURRENT_USER]-->[Control Panel]-->[Desktop], change the numerical data of the string value [MenuShowDelay] to [0]. After adjustment, if you think the menu display speed is too fast and you are not suitable, change the numerical data of [MenuShowDelay] to [200] and restart.

6. Accelerate the automatic refresh rate

In [Start]-->[Run]-->Type [Regedit]-->[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE]-->[System]-->[CurrentControlSet]-->[Control]-->[Update], change the value data of Dword[UpdateMode] to [0], and restart.

7. Speed ​​up the reading preview capability and improve the startup speed

Windows XP read-pre-setting can increase system speed and speed up startup. Press Modify to further make better use of the CPU's efficiency: In [Start]-->[Run]-->Type [Regedit]-->[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE]-->[SYSTEM]-->[CurrentControlSet]-->[Control]-->[SessionManager]-->[MemoryManagement], change the numerical data of [EnablePrefetcher] as follows in the window to the right of [PrefetchParameters]. For example, if you use the PIII 800MHz CPU, change the numerical data to 4 or 5, otherwise it is recommended to keep the numerical data as the default value, that is, 3.

8. Use the CPU's L2 Cache to speed up overall performance

In [Start]-->[Run]-->Type [Regedit]-->[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE]-->[SYSTEM]-->[CurrentControlSet]-->[Control]-->[SessionManager], in the right window of [MemoryManagement], change the numerical data of [SecondLevelDataCache] to the same decimal value as CPU L2 Cache: For example: The L2 Cache of P4 1.6G A is 512Kb, and the numerical data is changed to the decimal value 512.

9. Run the Defrag program when starting the computer

In [Start]-->[Run]-->Type [Regedit]-->[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE]-->[SOFTWARE]-->[Microsoft]-->[Dfrg]-->[BootOptimizeFunction], set the string value [Enable] to: Y is equal to on and N is equal to off.

10. Automatically close the stop response program when shutting down

In [Start]-->[Run]-->Type [Regedit]-->[HKEY_USERS]-->[.DEFAULT]-->[Control Panel], then change the value data of [AutoEndTasks] to 1 in the right window of [Desktop], and log out or restart.