Today's video shows you how to disable visual graphics and effects that Windows XP runs in the background by default. For many of you who have very little ram, when you disable the visual graphics and effects you will see a large increase in performance because it will free up these extra windows resources. The Windows XP operating system comes with a recommended amount of memory of 512 megabytes, so if you are running around this amount, it is a good idea to disable these graphics and effects to get the most out of your computer as possible.

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