Windows XP is highly customizable and is taken care to make a great deal of its twists easily accessible to users of any experience level. Experimenting with them and getting hands dirty is the best way to find private sweet spot in the mix of eye candy and system performance. One of the easiest ways to optimize XP is to simply use it. XP has some of built in files that are “smart”, well as smart as its manufacturer wants them to get. Anyway, these files observe the boot pattern and the programs that are run. Supposedly every three days the system optimizes itself by tweaking boot and load sequences based on past habits.

There are many ways to make computer run faster and handle more stuff you throw at it, but there are also many that are either irrelevant or just not needed for audio production. There are two ways to disable services. The easy way, and the hard way:

The easy way – On the start menu, click on run and type in “msconfig” and next click on the Services tab, will see a long list of services on your computer. Thankfully, its manufacturer supplies a way to filter the services used for the operating system. Check the windows XP Services at the bottom of the window.

The hard way – On the start menu, click run and type in “services.msc”. Will see a long detailed list of services on the computer and If click on any of them, will see a brief description, if provided. Unlike the easy way, cannot filter out the services from windows XP, but can arrange them in useful ways.