Not Using Vista Yet? Speed Up Your XP Machine
I received notification of this article in my Outlook e-mail RSS subscription this morning so I’m sure others received it as well.
Nothing too surprising on the tasks they suggest you run through on a monthly basis, pretty much the standards:
- Remove programs you don’t use anymore
- Install and run anti-spyware software
- Delete temp and other unused files
- Defrag..defrag…defrag
- Disconnect unused network drives
As I said, nothing too “Oh wow! I never thought of that” from the list above. The one difference for me though was not realizing the resource use of having so many network drives that I’ve asked to connect by default.
I work as a consultant with a variety of clients and I’ve setup a variety of mapped network drives on my machine to access the various resources at different client locations. Most of them I’ve set to connect automatically, but I’m going to go in now and tell of them to disconnect by default. Hopefully this will really improve my performance because there are times where I’m not onsite at a particular client for months at a time. There’s no reason for my operating system to keep looking to connect those drives now is there?
UPDATE: Okay, something the directions should have clarified that when you actually “disconnect” the network drive you lose the entire mapped connection in your list of drives. I didn’t intend to do that, what I wanted to do was tell each network drive to not connect at logon automatically. I didn’t see that in the “Properties” of the connection, so just proceeded with disconnecting the drive. NOT what I wanted. Be careful, you probably just need to open up the network drive connection and modify it in a different way.
Read all the details and specifics, with screen shots at the article location below.
Source: Windows XP: Maintenance tasks that improve performance
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