XP performance, (maybe) it can be done!

XP tweking night it seems, after building my brothers "delivered-in-pieces-i-hope-everything-is-there" computer successfully (he's online now!), I stumbled across this post, giving you the, imho, best XP performance "tricks" or "hacks", whatever you call them compilations you need to get started in tweaking your XP. I find them most useful, and my XP performs well now even on my, now "old", laptop.

One of my other favourite tweaks are the FireFox network tweaks. Check out about:config in your browser (you're not in IE, are you?) and take a look at these variables:

network.http.max-connections
network.http.max-connections-per-server
network.http.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

There are more, but these are the most interesting ones.

My current values are:

network.http.max-connections = 32
network.http.max-connections-per-server = 12
network.http.pipelining = true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 21

Also, there's similar settings for you that use proxies, I usually dont.

Enjoy your tweaking evening, and stack up with something to snack during the reboots ;=)