Windows XP has many configurable options, many of these are never used as for most the default settings are enough. However, for some the default setting can cause a variety of issues. The obvious settings that many change are the font and icon sizes as many do not have good enough eyesight to see or the resolution is really high on a small sized screen. Many do not know that this can in fact slow the computer down if the icons and font size are increased on the standard theme they can put added strain on the graphics processes. However, this impact can be greatly reduced if the theme is changed from the Windows XP to an older version of windows theme. With less colours and nice looking bars and edges it puts less strain on the system which could mean you see an obvious improvement in loading time at first boot up. On top of this you could also change the resolution to a lower one so that icons and font are bigger. Doing it this way rather than increasing the size of icons and font whilst keeping the overall resolution the same means that it actually takes less processing power, although the quality of the screen and any images will be reduced.
Along with visual configurations many hardware configurations are just as important. The most obvious hardware configurations are the drivers that run the hardware on the Operating System. If these drivers are not up to date it can mean they are not running to their optimum efficiency. On top of the drivers many components need configuring to run faster, even down the original formatting of the hard drive to either NTFS or FAT as if this is done in the wrong format the computer will not run as fast.
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