XP Defrag

[Paladin]

I defraged my hard drive last night. As far as I know, it's the first time since I installed XP.

According to the report I got from it when it finished, I had a grand total of TWO fragmented files when I started (nice of it not to tell me BEFOREHAND...out of 154,995, btw). Under Windows 9x, I was used to seeing 12-15% fragmentation after 6 months or so. Anyone else seen that? Is XP just that much better at preventing file fragmentation, or is it not reporting it accurately?

Anyway, program launches and the like do seem faster. Have to try it out in Battlefield. Ever since I loaded DC, the level load times have been horrendous, usually causing what looks like a crash to the desktop, but the hard drive keeps going. If I don't bother it for 10 seconds or so, the loading screen does come back up...but usually by the time I get into the level, all the outposts have been captured...yes, it takes THAT long.

Hoping the defrag helps. Anyone know any other tweaks? I've already done all the ones for Battlefield I could find, including killing the movies.

[SoBeiT]

Do you search for cookies then delete all of them?

They use to really slow me down.

[Paladin]

Do you search for cookies then delete all of them?

They use to really slow me down.

No, I'm sure there's a ****load I could get rid of, but then I'd have relogin on sites like this every time. I'm too lazy to do that.

[-F7]

Adding more RAM makes a HUGE difference. I went from 512MB to 1GB recently and my DC load times were reduced less than half.

You can try also increasing the size of your pagefile.

Check the sticky threads in this forum. Namely the XP Services Tweak thread. Preventing unnecessary and unused services from starting up frees up a buttload of RAM and processor resources.