Tascam Computer Hardware manual System Performance Tweaks Stuff to Do After Installing

System Performance Tweaks – Stuff to Do After Installing

Windows Messenger

One of the ‘features’ of XP is the deeper integration of Windows Messenger. While Messenger may be useful for on-line communication, it’s a real resource hog; we recommend disabling it for audio use. To do this, right-click on its icon in the task tray and select 'open'. (If an animated assistant pops up just cancel it…..we’ll deal with

getting rid of those later.) Now go to the “Tools” menu and select “Options / Preferences”, and uncheck 'Run this program when windows starts'. This will deactivate automatic startup, preventing Messenger from loading automatically again next time you log on to Windows XP.

Figure 3- Deactivating Windows Messenger

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