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Mostly gui stuff that can be easily done using the tweakui tool from MS. I turn off autoplay on my optical drives as well as indexing on my hds. I move my pagefile to my second hd and give it an initial size of 2gb. Oh, I also turn off security center. I get tired oof it nagging me about my av and firewall.
 
Turn off system restore, because it's a resource hog.
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Since SR doesn't do anything unless you ask it to (e.g. install a hotfix, WMP update, or run a snapshot/restore), how do you figure it is a "resource hog"?

Where do myths like this come from, anyways?

Oh, and to tweak XP: Do absolutely nothing. Microsoft knows more than you do about the scheduler, VMM, and kernel.
 
I use an old version of tweaknow called Customizer XP v1.8.5.
I use it to disable everything that isn't needed in the startup, configure the menu show delay, default is 400 I set it to 200, it makes the start menu a lil faster. Also I use it to disable NTFS Last Access Time, Disable Windows XP Tracking Features, which turns off windows keeping track of recently used programs in the start menu, Disable Outlook Express Splash screen, and disable recent documents history.

I also get rid of Fade effect by right clicking desktop and going to properties/appearance/effects.

Next I go to start/control panel/ administrative tools/services and disable and stop messenger service(disabled by default with SP2), remote registry, and remote desktop.

that's just the tip of the iceberg..

good luck

 
if you don't want to get rid of system restore, I at least bring down the slider so it doesn't use to much HDD space. I only want 1 restore point. Granted, I've never even used sys restore.
 
Turn off firewall, turn off updates, turn of system restore, shut down the security center with pleasure (it's a piece of crap), do some modifications to the general UI, and that's about it.
Maybe install an antivirus.
 
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