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[RedInferno]

YES!!!! we are growing!!!

[ShadowFox]

I did his "little" tweak and I'm still working perfectly behind a broband modem and router.

[RedInferno]

LOL, I won't find out until I get sateillite!

[ShadowFox]

I hate being tired.. I can never spell correctly

[Visentinel]

I hate Been Tired to, I cant Type when i am.

[ShadowFox]

Besides the fact of your eyes trying to close on you, you have to fit to get your fingers to move the way you want them to -.-

Too bad this tweak doesn't work for making you wake up.

[tntoak]

Disabling the Background Intelligent Transfer Service can cause issues when trying to update your system down the road, so I'd suggest proceeding with caution on that particular setting. If you make regular backups of your system (and if you test a lot of software, you should), then you shouldn't need System Restore anyways.

[guilliam]

heres a QUICKLIST guide that i have in my references, i cant remember anymore where i got the guide, my apologies if i cant give due credits to the author. if anyone knows where the original source was(try googling maybe),.. would love to cite the author's name.



Boosting up ur CPU really do affects the speed of your internet connection. You may follow these steps:

PLEASE!!! ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR SYSTEM FIRST BEFORE U CHANGE ANYTHING AND USE THE GUIDE AT YOUR OWN RISK, thanks (to do this click start and click RUN then type "regedit" w/o " " the click EXPORT then type a file name or just put regbackup) just in case u messed up, just double click the regbackup file were u saved it.

To increase system performance

Right click my computer. Click properties.
Click advanced.
Click settings (under performance).
Click Adjust for best performance.
Scroll to the bottom and check the last one “use visual styles on windows and buttons”.

These Settings will fine tune your systems memory

You need at least 256MB of ram to do this:

Go to start\run\regedit -and then to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

1.DisablePagingExecutive -double click it and in the decimal put a 1 - this allows XP to keep data in memory now instead of paging sections of ram to harddrive yeilds faster performance.

2.LargeSystemCache- double click it and change the decimal to 1 -this allows XP Kernal to Run in memory and improves system performance a lot.

3.Create a new dword and name it IOPageLockLimit - double click it and set the value in hex - 4000 if you have 128MB of ram or set it to 10000 if you have 256MB set it to 40000 if you have more than 512MB of ram -this tweak will speed up your disckcache.

Reboot

Tweak The Swap File

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.

Restart your Windows and enjoy better Game performance

Disable Services

XP Pro runs a lot of services by default that are pointless if your not on a corporate network, the following services are ones that I safely disable thereby freeing up memory but check what each one does first to make sure your not using it for something:

Go to Run and type services.msc, right click on each service, properties and choose disable(check first on the description if you really DONT need the following).

Alerter
Application Management
Automatic Updates
Background Intelligent Transfer
Clipbook
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Distributed Transaction Coordinater
Error Reporting Service
Fast User Switching Compatibility
IMAPI CD-Burning
Indexing Service
IPSEC Services
Messenger
Net Logon
Net Meeting
Remote Desktop Sharing
Network DDE
Network DDE DSDM
Portable Media Serial Number
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager
Remote Registry
Secondary Logon
Smartcard
SSDP Discovery Service
Telnet
Themes
Uninterruptible Power Supply
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
Upload Manager
Webclient
Wireless Zero Configuration
WMI Performance Adaptor


Speed Up The File System

NTFS is a great file system, but its feature-set comes at a slight cost in performance. You can negate this a little with the following tips:

* By default NTFS will automatically update timestamps whenever a directory is traversed. This isn't a necessary feature, and it slows down large volumes. Disable it by going to Run and type regedit:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem and set 'DisableNTFSLastAccessUpdate' to 1.

* NTFS uses disparate master file control tables to store filesystem information about your drives. Over time these core MFT files grow and become fragmented, slowing down all accesses to the drive. By setting aside a little space, MFT's can grow without becoming fragmented.

In the same key where you disabled the last access feature creat a new DWORD value called 'NtfsMftZoneReservation' and set it to 2.


Disable DLL Caching

Windows Explorer caches DLLs (Dynamic-Link Libraries) in memory for a period of time after the application using them has been closed. This can be an inefficient use of memory.

1. Find the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer].

2. Create a new DWORD sub-key named 'AlwaysUnloadDLL' and set the default value to equal '1' to disable Windows caching the DLL in memory.

3. Restart Windows for the change to take effect.


Tweak The Prefetch

1. Run "regedit"
2. Goto [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnablePrefetcher]

3. Set the value to either 0-Disable, 1-App launch prefetch, 2-Boot Prefetch, 3-Both ("3" is recommended).

4. Reboot.

It will decrease the boot time but double and increase the performance of your XP.


SpeedUp Your Connection By 20% (Cable/DSL Users Only)

1.Log on as "Administrator".
2. Run - gpedit.msc
3. Expand the "Local Computer Policy" branch.
4. Then expand the "Administrative Templates" branch.
5. Expand the "Network" branch.
6. Highlight the "QoS Packet Scheduler" in left pane.
7. In the right window pane double-click the "Limit Reservable Bandwidth" setting.
8. On the settings tab check the "Enabled" item.
9. Change "Bandwidth limit %" to read 0.
10. Then go to your Network connections Start=>Control Panel>Network & Internet connections>Network Connections and right-click on your connection. Then under the General or the Networking tab, (where it lists your protocols) make sure QoS packet scheduler is enabled.

It may take effect immediately on some systems. To be sure, just re-boot.

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again, if anyone knows who or where the original author or where this tweaks was first published, just post it here and will cite the author for its credit accordingly.

i know its not on the design for joomla however i cant see any sub forum to make this fit.

enjoy!

- guilliam

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sorry for the formatting garbage. i copy pasted the same post made here.

Edited by guilliam, 10 April 2006 - 10:11 AM.

[ShadowFox]

cool, thanks I look forward to trying this out... my XP is LOADS faster thanks to karl and his help (Thanks buddy!!!) lets see if we can push the limits a bit further

[guilliam]

the "SpeedUp Your Connection By 20% (Cable/DSL Users Only)" helps.

- g

[ShadowFox]

I have 22.6 k dial up can you speed that up

[Sphere]

20mbit... wanna proxy? maybe it helps?

[guilliam]

ShadowFox, on Apr 12 2006, 12:57 AM, said:

I have 22.6 k dial up can you speed that up

ohhh.. you expect us to beleive that.

- g

[ShadowFox]

The only thing I DON'T recommend is if you get into things like Photoshop or programs that are memory hogs (not talking abotu games) the page file tends to increase the performance of them on my machine... any other way to tweak my machine so my Photoshop is still happy (pag file wise)?

Other than that great guide, very much appreciated effort.. took about 15 min to do the entire thing but I'd recommend it

ane I'm serious guilliam let me get a ss it's normally only 22 k but I think I got 24k today

[guilliam]

errr.. that should really be a pain using that connection.

screenie please

- g