We’ve seen tens, maybe hundreds of tutorials on the Internet on how to improve performance of our Windows XP machines, but it’s always better to use a dedicated software solution to do that quick and easy.

SpeedXP is an application designed especially to assist you in this matter, trying to optimize Windows XP and get the most out of your operating system.

Of course, you won’t get too many optimizations when using SpeedXP since it hasn’t been updated in a while, but you’ll still find some extra goodies hidden under the hood of that simple interface.

Because yes, the interface is as simple as it gets, just a single window that hosts all the options, be they the ones concerning the system or the ones addressed to network or Internet.

The app thus lets you disable NT executive paging and the NTFS last access update, enable UDMA66 on Intel chipsets, clear pagefile at shutdown, enable MTU auto discovery, optimize max duplicate ACKs and many more.

But what’s more important is that SpeedXP is aimed at multiple types of users, as it provides recommendations depending on the Internet connection, be it cable, DSL or dial-up.

Plus, there’s no help file, but the developer has found the perfect way to guide the user through the whole process. Every feature comes with a detailed explanation once the user moves the mouse over it, so that you will know for sure which are the areas to be improved thanks to SpeedXP.

Overall, it’s just sad to see SpeedXP turn into an abandoned project as it had so much potential, but it’s still worth a chance on older machines.