How Do You Speed Up Windows XP Without Defragmenting?
Execute some simple software fixes. • Ensure that Windows XP is utilizing the NTFS file system. Most modern hard drives run NTFS.. You can check by doing the following: • Double click My Computer on the Desktop. • Right click on the C: drive. • Select Properties. • Examine the File System type. If it says NTFS, then everything is good. If you are running a FAT32 file system, it is strongly recommended that you convert to a NTFS. Note that FAT32 drives are most prominent on smaller and older-generation hard drives. • Disable file indexing. Windows XP’s indexing service extracts information from documents and other files on the hard drive and creates a “searchable keyword index”, which is used to make searching for files more efficient. This sounds ideal but, as you can imagine, this process is quite taxing on any system. The idea is that the user can search for a word, phrase, or property inside a document, should they have hundreds or thousands of documents and not know the file name o
Keep your startup list as trim as possible, download and install security updates and run diskcleanups regularly. Get a good virus and malware scanner and run updated scans. Having said that, I would also add that there is no ‘substitute’ for defragging. And it does benefit the HDD and the overall performance by keeping data access fast and smooth.
