Boosting the speed of windows XP

[Punisher]

If you run a windows computer you’ll know like many others than after a while your system will in doubt start running slow. Most people will restart their computer to remove and idle processes. But if there’s a simpler way, why restart every time windows decides it doesn’t like you today?

1. Right click on an empty spot on your desktop and select New - Shortcut.

2. Type %windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks in the box.

3. Click Next.

4. Give your shortcut a nice name like “Clear Memory”.

5. Click Finish and you’re done.

Now whenever your computer starts running slow click this shortcut to clear out your memory and get your computer running at a normal pace again

Hope this tutorial helps you in speeding up your system.

[Fire1]

This tutorial is really helpful but it seems that it isn't clear for me. Can you clarify the second step? I am a bit confused on that part.

[kakarothusain]

Oh i found this tutorial quite helpful to me since my computer's used to becomes very slow after using it for 3 to 4 hours but after i use this trick it again starts working nicely..

[sanchit]

By doing above given steps which memory is getting cleared??