GENERAL WINDOWS SPEEDUP
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To edit the registry, click on Start then Run and type regedit then press enter.
Don't use swap file unless really needed
For Users with 256 MB RAM or more this tweak will boost their Windows - and Game-Performance.
What it does: It tells Windows not to use any Swap File until there is really no more free RAM left.
Open the System Configuration Utility by typing msconfig.exe in the RUN command. There in your System.ini you have to add "ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1" under the 386enh section.
The next few memory tweaks are performed using the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Memory Management\
1- Disable Paging Executive
In normal usage, XP pages sections from RAM memory to the hard drive. We can stop this happening and keep the data in RAM, resulting in improved performance. Note that only users with a large amount of RAM (256MB+) should use this setting. The setting we want to change to disable the ’Paging Executive’, as it is called, is called DisablePagingExecutive. (weird huh?) Changing the value of this key from 0 to 1 will de-activate memory paging.
2- System Cache Boost
under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Memory Management\
If you have at least 256 MB of RAM, then you should do this:
Changing the value of the key LargeSystemCache from 0 to 1 will tell Windows XP to allocate all but 4MB of system memory to the file system cache, basically meaning that the XP Kernel can run in memory, greatly improving it’s speed.
The 4MB of memory left is used for disk caching, but if for any reason more is needed, XP allocates more.
Generally, this tweak improves performance by a fair bit but can, in some intensive applications, degrade performance. As with the above tweak, you should have at least 256MB of RAM before attempting to enable LargeSystemCache.
Prioritizing IRQs
Go into the Device Manager and
look through your System Devices. The only tweak most people
should do is to IRQ 8 which is the System CMOS/real time clock.
It should be IRQ 8, but check the resource properties to be
doubly sure. If they are then fire up 'regedit' and find
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl.
Now you'll need to create a new DWORD value. You'll want to call
this IRQ8Priority and set the data to 1. Reboot and you should
see another speed increase.
Remove the text "shortcut
to" on shortcuts
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
Value
Name: Link (REG_BINARY)
Set to "00 00 00 00"
Reduce 10 second scandisk wait
time
Start MS Dos Prompt (Start -
run - CMD)
CHKNTFS/T:4
where 4 is the amount of wait time
CHKNTFS/?
for more info
Enable or disable boot defrag
Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction
Select Enable
from the list on the right.
Right click on it and select
Modify.
Change the value to Y to enable and N to disable.
Reboot your computer.
1. Open notepad.exe, type "del
c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q" (without the quotes) &
save as "ntosboot.bat" in c:\
2. From the Start
menu, select "Run..." & type "gpedit.msc".
3. Double click "Windows Settings" under "Computer
Configuration" and double click again on "Shutdown"
in the right window.
4. In the new window, click "add",
"Browse", locate your "ntosboot.bat" file &
click "Open".
5. Click "OK", "Apply"
& "OK" once again to exit.
6. From the Start
menu, select "Run..." & type "devmgmt.msc".
7. Double click on "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"
8.
Right click on "Primary IDE Channel" and select
"Properties".
9. Select the "Advanced
Settings" tab then on the device 0 or 1 that doesn't have
'device type' greyed out select 'none' instead of 'autodetect' &
click "OK".
10. Right click on "Secondary IDE
channel", select "Properties" and repeat step 9.
11. Reboot your computer.
Delete/Modify
"Locked Files"
