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by wennock

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I have a DELL Insperion 8100 PIII 1GHZ with 128MB 32MB NVIDIA Geforce 2 with 20 Gig HD running on XP Home with all available updates
Iam using the Laptop primarily for work use office apps mail internet access ect but would like to if it is worth it to create a ID for home - games etc to mainly to separate these and also to optimize the games to run as quickly as possible

I would like to create the account to separate the two lets say work and home.
Are there any settings restrictions tweaks modifications can I make to the home account to make the most of the system to make the games run better, no office apps etc will be need for this account.

Or should I consider a dual boot system with a different OS??

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by borginva

My friend on his XP Pro did a seperate login for games and for work/home. His Games login does not have any extra programs starting up (like Office Internet, E-mail, and music apps). With a clean boot into that login, and using Cacheman 5, he has all the memory he can muster for his games, plus he can keep one resolution active for each login without having to switch them all the time.
I hope this helps.

by borginva

I am sorry, I forgot one more thing....

Make sure you use Tweak XP so that it can help give a little extra performance, and maybe even FreshUI (www.freshdevices.com) for a few more tweaks. I use both.

by shanghai sam

didn't get much more speed out of it than I was before
and have decided to go back to playing champ manager on my desk top

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