Many novice friends often ask, "My new machine configuration is better than others. Why do I always feel faster than others, and sometimes I feel slower than other machines? " In fact, this is not the real strength of the machine. It's just that it wasn't set up when it was just bought, which will cause a waste of performance. This is also the purpose of my writing this time, so that novices can accelerate their love of computers in ten minutes, with remarkable results. Don't miss it! In fact, there are many ways to improve the speed of computers, but there are always some dangers, which is why many people don't touch their hands. Here I want to introduce you to a quick and safe method. The method described below is only a reasonable setting of the machine. You can rest assured that the machine does not need any physical modification and does not need to use complicated third-party optimization software. (Note: In order to save space, the following methods are only simple explanations, please forgive me! This machine has so many settings that we will start working as soon as it is turned on. Just start the computer, wait until the memory test is finished, press the "DEL" key, and the screen will flash into the heart of the computer: the setting screen of "BIOS". Don't underestimate him, he completely controls your computer, let's take this "heart" off together! On the homepage of BIOS settings, we enter the "Advanced BIOS Function" option, move the cursor to the "First Boot Device" option, and press "PageUP" and "PageDOWN" to select. The default value is "Floppy", which means that the system will first read the startup information from the floppy drive when it is turned on, which is very unsuitable for our normal machine. Because now is the era of Windows9x, you don't need a startup disk at ordinary times, so it is futile to read the floppy disk every time you turn it on, and it will lengthen the startup time of the machine and shorten the life of the floppy disk. So we should choose "HDD-0" to boot directly from the hard disk, which will be faster. Go back to the home page and select Advanced Chipset Features. The setting in this option has a great influence on the acceleration of the machine. Please pay more attention. Change "Bank 0/ 1 DRAM timing" from "8ns/ 10ns" to "fast" or "Turbo". "Turbine" is faster than "fast" but unstable. It is recommended to choose "fast". You can choose "Turbo" if the memory quality is good, and change it back to "Fast" if it is unstable. Looking down, you will find the option of SDRAM CAS delay. The best choice is "2" with good memory quality, but "3" is recommended based on stability. In the future, it will always be a "DRAM clock", allowing you to run memory at a high clock frequency. Change 66 to 100 or 100 to 133. Now most of the memory is PC 133, so you can change it with confidence. It's all the same sentence, "instability can be changed." (Note: Some versions use +33, but the meaning is the same. ) Newer motherboards support AGP4X. If your graphics card also supports AGP4X, activate it in "AGP4X mode", which can give full play to the capabilities of your graphics card. If you support both, remember not to waste it! (Note: the activation of 4X is not a single problem, but a prerequisite for opening 4X, which we will analyze in detail later. ) The next item is "AGP aperture size", that is, the system call memory of video memory. With the gradual popularization of large memory graphics cards, this option has no great significance. Tested as 16M, 32M and 64M. 128M has almost no difference. Even if 16M is compared with 128M, the difference is less than 2%. So don't let too much memory wait for those useless tasks, just release them. Choose 16M or 32M is enough. In fact, there are many settings in the BIOS, but the effect is not obvious. Let's put them down first, declare that the "heart-picking operation" has ended successfully, and select "Save &; Exit setup "and press" y "to restart. After the coring operation, the machine successfully landed on Windows. At this time, do you already feel that the startup of the machine and the running of the program are much faster than before, but this still can't satisfy us. Because Windows doesn't seem to be obedient, and the settings of Windows itself are not optimal, you should conquer it yourself. When I first entered Windows, I saw the machine blindly open the resident program (note: the resident program refers to the small icon next to the time display in the toolbar of the start menu after booting, indicating that all programs will open in the background as soon as you boot). In this way, the software that is not used much at ordinary times is opened every time with the start of the computer, which greatly occupies the system resources and reduces the performance of the computer. At this time, we only need to press "Start/Run/Type" msconfig "to confirm/enter the program, and then press" Start "to see all the programs started by the system here. Just empty the box in front of the programs that we don't want to start. It is suggested to remove all the unused ones, such as "Jieba, WINAMP, ICQ, OICQ" and so on. For the sake of safety, please don't remove the firewall. After the restart, you will find a qualitative leap, and you will never see the tragic situation of hard disk lights flashing after the restart. Really happy, haha! After fully entering Windows, we can make the following settings: First, start DMA mode to improve the speed of hard disk. The maximum transmission rate of the hard disk using UDMA/33,66, 100 technology is 33MB/s, 66MB/s,1000 MB/s, which is an IDE hard disk (here, it refers to PIO MODE4 mode, and its transmission rate is 6544). But in the default settings of Windows, DMA is disabled, so we must turn it on. Enable DMA: Open the control panel/system/device manager window, expand the disk drive branch, double-click the UDMA hard disk icon, enter the properties/settings/options, check the DMA item, and then press OK to close all dialog boxes and restart the computer. Second, increase the cache to improve the performance of the optical drive. First, select the "My Computer" icon, click the right mouse button to open the "System Properties/Performance/File System/CD" window, then drag the "Additional Cache Size" cursor to the maximum (rightmost), set the "Additional Access Method" to "Four times or higher", and then click OK. Third, tidy up the hard disk. After long-term use, the files in the hard disk will form fragments. If you don't defragment this system, the performance of the system will be reduced. Finishing method: In Start/Accessories/System Tools, open the defragmenter, which can improve the performance of the system. (Note: This work will take a long time. Right-click My Computer, open the System Properties/Device Manager, expand the Modem branch, then double-click the icon of the modem you are using to pop up the Properties dialog box, select the Modem item, and set the Fastest Speed to 1 15200. Switch to the connection item in the Properties dialog box, click the Advanced button, select the hardware in the Use Flow Control checkbox, and then click the OK button to exit the Advanced dialog box. Finally, click the "Port Settings" button, select the "Use FIFO Buffer" check box, drag the "Receive Buffer" and "Send Buffer" cursors to the "high" end, and click "OK". 5. Use 32-bit file allocation table (FAT32) If you are a user of WIN98, you'd better use FAT32(32-bit partition) for the best performance. Because FAT32 is faster and more space-saving than FAT 16, its compatibility is certain. Usage: Open the Explorer, click the icon of each drive, select the file drop-down menu, and then click Properties. If the file system is in FAT 16 mode, click Disk Cleaner/Other Options/Convert to change the FAT 16 mode to FAT32. Sixth, reduce the workload of the graphics card If you find that the computer screen refresh speed is slow or there are other video interferences, it may be caused by the workload of the graphics card. In fact, if you are not too obsessed with using 32-bit color for picture and game quality, it is recommended to use 16-bit color, because it can reduce the workload of graphics cards and has little effect. Then there is the adjustment of resolution, because too high resolution will also increase the workload of the graphics card, which is not good for the eyes. Setting method: In the screen window, right-click the "Properties" option to open the "Settings" dialog box, where you can adjust the resolution and the number of color bits until you are satisfied. If your graphics card is not broken, I suggest you use the graphic "All Hardware Acceleration": right-click "My Computer" to open the "Properties/Performance/Graphics" dialog box, and drag the "Hardware Acceleration" cursor to "All". Setting up a network server Setting up a computer as a "network server" can greatly improve the performance of the computer. Setting method: Right-click my computer to open the Properties/Performance/File System dialog box, select the main purpose of this computer, change "Desktop" in the drop-down menu to "Network Server", drag the "Preview Optimization" cursor to "All", and then click "OK" to restart the computer. After the above "coring action" and "conquering action", the performance of the computer has been greatly improved. However, all this is not complicated, and it doesn't even take ten minutes. It is worth a lot of novices to give full play to their abilities and give it a try. Well, enjoy the accelerated results slowly.