performance-tuning 7

My music search engine takes quite a while to load (typically 40 seconds). That's an unusually long time for a page, given that most of the people that access it are on broadband connections, and are listening to music online. The reason is, firstly, that I'm loading a lot of data. Literally every single song on that you can search comes through as Javascript. All the downloadable Hindi songs, for instance, occupy 1.3 megabytes before compression. On average, this takes about 20 seconds to load. ...

Why I don’t use a registry cleaner

Reducing your memory usage in Firefox.

How to make XP run faster. Advice ranges from the very practical to the very advanced. Comments Sai 4 Feb 2006 6:29 pm: First impressions, i like the old look better. Maybe it’s just because i’m used to it! Anonymous 4 Feb 2006 11:46 pm: looks cool!; feels like a windows next version…looks like a win 98 –> win xp makeover Chitra 6 Feb 2006 4:19 am: Hey Anand…good post. Jagjit 31 Oct 2006 10:46 am: good post Chitra :)

Speed up your pages.

Create a permanent paging file in Windows XP. It speeds up the system when you have lots of applications running. Comments S Anand 30 Mar 2005 9:28 am: More tweaks here Samba 28 Mar 2005 12:00 pm: Want to know more about Paging!!!

PC Pit Stop. A good tune-up for your PC. I managed to improve my hard disk performance by enabling DMA, and my memory by reducing the video card shared memory.