What can I do to make my Pentium 133 faster in win98se?

[KennyH]

I am having to use a Pentium 133 until I can get all of my tbird components. The box has an ASUS board, 48 megs of ram, and the pentium 133. I tried overclocking but no luck. I have an old hard drive in there and I know that is killing me on performance but that will be replaced next week. What kind of things can I turn off in Windows to help out my old pentium 133? Please help me. Thanks

 

[cirrus1]

Turn of all visual effects
Don't use a picture on the desktop
Disable active desktop
Don't run too many programs at the same time
Defrag the HD often
Disable task scheduler
Right click My computer - performance - file system - Set this computers typical role to network server (this will use more of your ram for disk cache there fore you will have less ram free)

Go and have a look at http://www.tweakfiles.com there you will find many utilities to tweak Microsof OS's

 

[kylef]

Get rid of everything that may be in the taskbar. Eliminate all unnecessary programs. Check to see what processes are running with Ctrl-Alt-Del. The bare minimums are Explorer and Systray, I believe.

Good luck! That IS a challenge!

 

[cmv]

Just wait for your tbird ... But if you don't want to make sure you have L2 cache on there. If not, buy some (kind of a waste though if your doing the tbird).