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4:01 pm
November 20, 2009
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Craig Chamberlin
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This is actually the "Faster Computer" series but it will be renamed when I begin the Faster Vista series (which is coming soon). Right now most of the steps will work with Vista but the Vista series will be far more direct on how to do the speedup tips for vista specifically.
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6:56 pm
November 25, 2009
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thezainkhan1997
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First of all, I don't want to make this sound like some random gibberish, or someone launching an attack of your awesomely awesome work on the videos you do. But aren't there many more services that you can disable in XP? Some examples would be the cryptographic service, clipbook, DNS client, messenger, net login, workstation, remote desktop help session manager, uninterruptible power supply, windows time, and wireless zero configuration (unless if you use 802.11 adapters). I know that some of them are somewhat useful, but all of them are services that I don't need, and some other people might not need them either. And my computer can still connect to the internet, and can do other things a normal computer can. So wouldn't it make sense to show how to disable some of these services in your (already spectacular) videos? I appreciate the hard work you have done and how much you have taught me (and other people) about computers, since they speed up the computer A LOT. Also, you have done fabulous work on you other series too. 
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10:15 pm
November 26, 2009
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Craig Chamberlin
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Nope, always enjoy constructive criticism.
I am actually aware of this (there are tons of services that can be disabled) – I stopped because I hit such a high episode count and people started losing interest. You've actually caught on to one of my secrets, you'll notice there was no official "ending" to the faster XP computer series, I did this intentionally so I could continue to add on videos to "respark" and "rekindle" interest in the series later on. I didn't want to drag it out for three month straight, know what I mean?
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11:05 am
November 27, 2009
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thezainkhan1997
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Oh, yeah. Nice ideas…
yet again.
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10:58 am
November 28, 2009
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thezainkhan1997
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I've read that disabling the music thing (on XP) that happens when your system starts and shuts down will speed your startup, shutdown, and reboot time enormously. Is this true? Can you even disable the sound?
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9:21 am
November 29, 2009
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Craig Chamberlin
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That actually sounds like a myth – the startup doesn't wait for the music to complete before it opens the application, it just triggers an audio file. If it did speed it up, it might only be by a few milliseconds.
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7:36 pm
December 5, 2009
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thezainkhan1997
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Thanks for the info.
(There are wwwwaaaaayyy to many speed up 'myths' on the internet right now)
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9:27 am
December 24, 2009
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Peter James
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Unless your computer is old and outdated are there any other reasons why XP would need speeding up? 8)
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4:12 pm
January 20, 2010
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nurotic
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xp is probably the best your going to get with windows…besides windows seven which is promising …i dont see why it would need a speed boost unless you have no ram at all…256 mb ram is basic…xp can run better on 512mb ram …but hey thats just me …
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