Windows XP performance tweaks - Windows XP could be one of the most widely sold versions of Windows and has received a lot of negative feedback during its launch as well. However, a lot of patches have gone along that eventually settled down the users who appear to be hostile at first. Here are some suggested Windows XP performance tweaks that you may want to take a look at to give you a better user experience.

People who are used to AutoPlay get really annoyed when it stops working. This feature actually is one of the few liked by many about this particular OS. How do you correct this in the first place? All you need to do is to go to the Control Panel then Administrative Tools. After this, you need to go to Services and look for the "Shell Hardware Detection" area. All you need to do after this is to set it back to automatic and your friendly feature shall go back to how it used to work.

Another really annoying scenario is when your computer suddenly freezes while starting up. A lot of people are experiencing this problem on the first release of Windows XP. You'll know that you have become a victim of this error as well when your computer suddenly stops at a blue screen after XP loads up and neither the taskbar nor the start button works. If this takes about 2-3 minutes (or longer) of your time in a day, a program called Background Intelligent Transfer may be the culprit behind this mess. The way to correct this is to go to Start, and then Run and type MSCONFIG on the prompt then hit enter. The MSCONFIG window will then show up. Look for the program Background Intelligent Transfer then disable it. After this Windows XP performance tweaks, reboot and your problem should be gone.

Others find shutting XP down such a pain when it actually takes you longer to shut it down than boot it up. One of the most known tweaks that you could do is this: try to go to the Windows Registry by going to the command prompt (Start then Run) and type "regedit" then enter. This should launch the registry. Find the "HKEY CURRENT USER" line then go to Control Panel and Desktop. Find the "AutoendTasks" entry then double-click it. Change the value from 0 to 1. Try rebooting after this Windows XP performance tweaks and it should do the trick.