Delete all temporary files for the current user.
Note: By default Local Settings is a hidden folder. To display Hidden files and folders. Click My Computer. Click Tools. Click Folder Options. Click the View Tab. Click Show hidden files and folders.

1. Navigate to the users temporary directory.
2. By default the directory is located at C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp.
3. Press control-A to select all files and folders.
4. Press the delete key.

Reorder the files on your hard disk so that they are contiguous. This will increase the speed in which files are read, written, updated and created
Run a Manual Defragmentation
1. Run Diskeeper.
2. Click the appropriate drive.
3. Click Defragment.

Set up a Boot-Time Defragmentation
1. Click Action. Click Set It and Forget It.
2. Click Boot Time Scheduler Tab. Select all appropriate drives.
3. Click Directory Consolidation, Reduce Paging File Fragments and Defragment the MFT.
4. Click Set. Click Ok.
5. Restart your PC.

Note: Boot-Time defragmentation is an exhaustive process and will take a considerable amount of time to run.
Windows 2000/XP Built in Defrag
1. Right Click My Computer.
2. Click Manage.
3. Click Disk Defragmenter.
4. Click on the appropriate drive.
5. Click on Defragment.

Set the size, location and number of paging files to an constant optimal size.
The paging file is used regardless on how much physical RAM is in the system. This makes this setting extremely important.

Windows 2000/XP supports multiple paging files and can read and write to all of them simultaneously. Below are suggestions to configure the number, size and location of these files.

Size
To estimate how many megabytes your paging file needs. Load all the applications you normally use. Open task manager(press control-alt-delete) click the performance tab and find the peak commit charge. This is the maximum amount of memory your system has used since it was last started. Add 256MB to this number and this is a good setting to start with. The optimal configuration is to set the minimum and maximum to the same size preventing the OS from resizing the file.

For example, if you regularly use five applications simultaneously and your total commit charge is 256MB. A good setting would be to set the total of all paging files for 512MB. If your PC has 256MB of physical memory that would yield a total of 768MB of usable memory.

Additional consideration for Servers
Servers run multiple applications and provide resources to every client on your network. Each network client puts additional strain on memory and resources. If your server ran out of memory this would halt operations for the entire network. It is recommended that you add at least an additional 512MB or more to the size of the paging file.

Location
This is a complicated decision and is limited by the number of drives in your PC. There are numerous ways to configure this with each solution giving you a different amount of performance. Below are some suggestions.

Location Description
Optimal Put a paging file on each hard disk(or multiple hard disks) that does not contain operating system files.
Good Put one paging file on a stripe set with no parity.
Adequate Put one paging file on a stripe set with parity.
Put one paging file on each physical hard disk not containing the Windows system files.
Worst Put the paging file on the same drive as the Windows system files.

1. Right Click my computer. Click Properties.
2. Click the Advanced tab. Click the Performance Options.
3. Click Change. Click on the appropriate drive.
4. Enter the Initial and Maximum size and click set.
5. Repeat for all appropriate drives.
6. Reboot the PC for configuration changes to take effect.