Useless to most users—except perhaps for system administrators— XP’s inbuilt user tracking system uses up precious resources.
The system keeps track of the programs run by a user, the paths followed, and the documents used. (Did you know your XP was spying on you all this while?) Disable this to free up system resources.
Navigate to:
HCU\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\
Policies\Explorer
Set the DWORD NoInstrumentation to 1. This will disable most of the user tracking features of XP.
