Why I Enjoy Tweaking XP

I am often asked why I spend so much time and effort tweaking Windows XP.  I feel that Microsoft did great with the operating system, it isn’t about that.  The main reason I got started is because a network admin told me that “Windows 2000 is for tweakers, XP is for everyone else.”  From that day forward, I have been very focused on the great things that can be tweaked in XP.  It has been a while since those words were spoken to me, and they don’t bother me anymore, now it is a challenge to find something else that can be modified to save time or to increase performance.  I have most of my favorite tweaks included in my copy of XP that I made using nLite (my origingal XP discs are put away for safe keeping).   That way, when it is time for a reload, my tweaks are already set up and all that is left is loading software and a little fine tuning.