nts. Make certain that you have fewer than 500 fonts on your system. Especially if you don’t use them all, fonts can be taxing to your system. Delete the ones that you don’t need for a slight bump in performance.

Disable unnecessary services. Unnecessary services waste cycles, disable the ones that you don’t need. Once again, this can be dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. Take a look at Black Viper’s site for some helpful hints.

Reduce Your Recycling Bin Reserve. Right click on your recycling bin and select properties, what you’ll notice is that about 10% of your hard drive is reserved to be used to store deleted files. Unless you typical delete massive files, this is overkill. Reduce the size of this reserve to 2-3%, a much more reasonable value.

Busmaster Drivers. Find and update the Bus Master drivers for your IDE controller. To find out what type of IDE controller you have:

    * Control Panel
    * System
    * Hardware
    * Device Manager
    * IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers.