First you should try a PHP cache engine such as eAccelerator or APC. It will save the parsed PHP scripts and enhance performance a lot (this is something you should use anyway on any PHP installation with non-trivial traffic). Zend Platform also contains a bytecode cache, however its "dynamic content caching" is not supported in MediaWiki at the current time. Memcached will provide some performance benefit, especially for heavily viewed sites.

The new smooth blue or green wrapping on the Start menu, Task Bar, and on all of the windows are part of the new visual design for Windows XP. This feature can be turned off to speed up your computer, however this will revert all windows and menus back to the gray rectangular design of Windows 98 or 2000. If the My Computer icon is on your desktop, right-click on it. Otherwise, go to the Start menu and right-click on My Computer. Select Adjust for best performance. Click Apply. See similar questions...

Each time SETI@home launches, it optimizes itself for the current monitor color depth (256 colors, Thousands, Millions). If you change the color depth while SETI@home is running, it may slow things to a crawl. It should run reasonably at any screen depth, but it will run somewhat faster at lower screen depths (256 colors) than higher ones. Screen resolution (800X600, 1024X732, etc.) should have negligible effect on speed. See similar questions...

If your watch is off a few seconds per day (fast or slow) you can regulate it depending on the position you leave the watch at night when you're not wearing it, as follows: By leaving the watch's dial (or face) up can cause it to gain (or run fast) upto a few seconds per day. On the other hand, by leaving the watch's dial (or face) down can cause it to lose (or run slow) upto a few seconds per day. See similar questions...

How much will it cost? (This link will take you to another Web page: FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions: Business Immigration Legal Fees.) Our manager was stopped at the border!--What should we do? (This link will take you to: FAQ: Stopped by INS at the Canada/U.S.A. Border!---What to Do?) Social Security---Removing the Mysteries. (This link will take you to: U.S. Social Security Number for Canadians - FAQ To Remove The Mysteries.) See similar questions...

Because of the high quality of our lesson videos, you will need a lot of bandwidth to play them. Every ISP has fluxuation with their bandwidth so sometimes the videos make be slow and choppy. If that happens you can switch to a progressive format. A progressive format will buffer a portion of the lesson on your hard drive, before it starts playing. So when you do play the lesson, you are playing it from your hard drive, so the lessons will run normally. See similar questions...

The level of detail displayed in the graphics has a significant impact on how fast the game runs. Experiment with turning Graphics options (Graphics command on the Options menu) on and off to find the right combination of graphics and speed. For example, set Image Quality to Low (Faster), turn off the Textured Sky, Shadows, and Allow Damage options. You can also try setting Scenery to Sparse (Faster). Turning off the dashboard and steering wheel in cockpit view can also make the game run faster. See similar questions...

Runtimes are affected by many factors, including the size and structure of your decision tree, the size of your spreadsheet (if applicable) and the DPL optimization settings in effect. Click here for tips on reducing runtimes. DPL supports the Excel functions that are most commonly found in cash flow spreadsheets. If you see an "@na" error after converting, your spreadsheet may contain functions not supported by DPL. See the note on Excel functions in DPL for more information. See similar questions...

CalFUSE requires two things of your machine: memory and I/O. To help the program run more quickly, turn off other memory-intensive applications, especially IDL. If your computer has a fiber-optically-coupled disk, take advantage of its increased speed by moving your data and calibration files there. We've seen this problem before. Typing "make -e install" instead of "make install" should do the trick. See similar questions...

There are many ways performance might be improved. Sometimes data processing is to blame for slowdowns (e.g., layout computation, item processing). In these cases it can often help to either find ways to move data processing out of an "inner loop" condition (if possible) or to find ways to process fewer data items by limiting operations to a filtered set of data. See similar questions...

you may know, we're willing to give up a little speed to make sure that you are getting the best answer, but the program can be made to run faster. We are actively working on some initiatives in this area, but there are a few things that you can do. Getting a faster computer will always help, but short of that, the best way to speed up STRATEGY for Windows is to add more memory to your computer. See similar questions...

There are many options in the configuration page. The Pixmap theme in particular is very sluggish on older machines; avoid it. See similar questions...

lxml.etree is a very fast library for processing XML. There are, however, a few caveats involved in the mapping of the powerful libxml2 library to the simple and convenient ElementTree API. Not all operations are as fast as the simplicity of the API might suggest, while some use cases can heavily benefit from finding the right way of doing them. The benchmark page has a comparison to other ElementTree implementations and a number of tips for performance tweaking. See similar questions...

Peak demand, network failures in the network all contribute to 'lag'. See question 15 which explains how to set up proxies which will improve web accesses. See similar questions...

Smart Framer is designed for speed and usability. The speed of your internet connection usually determines the browsing speed. See similar questions...

When I select Host Session or Join Session for Online Play, I get the error "Could not initialize DirectPlay connection. See similar questions...

To get an idea of how well your web site will compress use a program like GZIP or WINZIP to compress the files in your web site's directories. This will give you a fairly accurate idea of what kind of gains you are likely to get. See similar questions...