I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:

Performance Increase Through My Computer

Easy enough tweak to usually find out about it on your own, but still, some of us still don't find it right away. So here it is:

• Start > right-click on My Computer and select Properties.
• Click on the "Advanced" tab.
• See the "Performance" section? Click "Settings".
• Disable the following:
  
  Fade or slide menus into view
  Fade or slide ToolTips into view
  Fade out menu items after clicking
  Show Shadows under menus
  Slide open combo boxes
  Slide taskbar buttons
  Use a background image for each folder type
  Use common tasks in folders

There, now Windows will still look nice and perform faster.

That is definitely good advice for increasing computer performance and I’ve also written a series of posts on how you can simply configure Windows more effectively to increase computer speed, do check it out:

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/comp...e-paging-file/

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/comp...ur-hard-drive/

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/comp...rd-disk-space/

Hi akishore,
Very useful tips to increase computer performance. Thanks for sharing!!
Andy

you done a good job by sharing this information about xp.
best of luck.