OptimizeXP - Hardware Edition

OptimizeXP comes in 4 different editions: Hardware, Network/Internet, Performance and Security. Each edition has a variety of tweaks and optimizations to keep your WindowsXP running at a high level of performance. Try each edition and see what you can do with your computer!

OptimizeXP - Hardware Edition Main Features:

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PC Speaker Beeping on Errors

If you get annoyed by the beeps and noises coming from your PC speaker but can't find a way to turn it off, then use this tip to disable it.

Power the Computer Off After Shutdown

This setting controls whether Windows should automatically power down or reboot your computer once it has finished the shutdown process.

Disable CD Burning

This restriction is used to disable the use of the inbuilt CD recording functions of Windows.

Control the CD-ROM Autorun Function

Normally when you insert a disc into your CD-ROM drive, the contents are automatically launched. This tweak allows you to disable this behavior.

Detect Accidental Double Clicks

This setting is used to control whether explorer should attempt to automatically detect accidental double mouse clicks.

Change the Keyboard Buffer Size

Occasionally Windows may report an error relating to an overflow in the keyboard buffer. This tweak can be used to increase the size of the buffer, and avoid this problem.

Change the Mouse Buffer Size

Occasionally Windows may report an error relating to an overflow in the mouse buffer. This tweak can be used to increase the size of the buffer, and avoid this problem.

Active Windows Tracking Using Your Mouse Cursor

This tweak allows you to control the Window focus using the mouse cursor, by making an application active simply by moving your mouse cursor over it.

Disable Automatic Modem Connections at Startup

If remote connections are enabled in Windows, the system may try to initiate an Internet connection at Windows startup or at the start of many applications. This setting disables that behaviour.

Enable the Network Adapter Onboard Processor

If your network adapter has an onboard processor, designed to offload network processing from the system CPU, it is disabled by default. This setting allows you to enable it and increase the processing speed of your system.

Disable Print Job Notification in Event Viewer

By default Windows server adds an entry in the event log for every print job occurring on the spooler. This can quickly fill up the event log with redundant information.

Define Printer Scheduler Priority

This setting controls the overall priority of the printer scheduler.

Disable the Printer Server Browse Thread

When this option is enabled, the print spooler does not send shared printer information to other print servers.

No Beep on Printer Errors

When this setting is enabled the machine will beep every few seconds when a remote job error occurs on a print server.

Disable Print Job Notification Messages

By default Windows notifies a user with a popup message that their print job has been completed on the printer. This setting controls that behavior.

Improve Core System Performance

On systems with large amount of RAM this tweak can be enabled to force the core Windows system to be kept in memory and not paged to disk.

Control the Windows Animation Function

Although the animation function can make animated Windows look good, it can also slow down your PC if you have a slower graphics card. This setting allows you to control whether the function is enabled or disabled.

Enable Font Smoothing (to ClearType)

This setting controls whether fonts are anti-aliased to appear smoother when displayed within Windows.