Faster performance in Windows XP using ProcessIdleTasks

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Faster performance in Windows XP using ProcessIdleTasks

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In the Run box type the following:

Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

This frees up any idle tasks running in the background so that XP devotes its full attention to what you want it to do.

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