Good manual Tweak for XP

A n a t o M y · April 27th, 2007, 01:48 PM

good better idea :
ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR SYSTEM FIRST BEFORE U CHANGE ANYTHING AND USE THE GUIDE AT YOUR OWN RISK)

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\Contro l\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.
Alerter
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\Contro l\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\Curr entVersion\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\Contro l\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.

THIS TWEAK IS FOR ADVANCED USERS

nCaine · April 27th, 2007, 02:25 PM

Noobs Lame site

A n a t o M y · April 27th, 2007, 06:14 PM

i dont care about the site, i'm talking about the tweak guide only

nCaine · April 27th, 2007, 07:58 PM

Yes mate , sorry i wanted to add this too but forgot to edit , the tweak post is great .

xiaomhome · April 27th, 2007, 08:05 PM

I read your post about tweaking XP and i must say that most of that tweaks you mentioned does not have a big performance hit, but still they are some improvement. Instead of just tweaking like that you should know what are you tweaking and explain it in a way that most of the users would understand it. Advanced users wont tweak their system like that, but they would look for more information of what would happen if "X" is switched in a long term.

Keep in mind this is just my opinion.
If someone is really looking for a complete tweaking guide about XP or Vista just visit this page:
http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html

Koroush Ghazi is a tweak guide writter, he has written lots of tweaking guides and most of them are amazing.

edit: Some of tweaks like that speed up your connection is a myth.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html

Unixlord · April 27th, 2007, 08:27 PM

Quote:

Koroush Ghazi is a tweak guide writter, he has written lots of tweaking guides and most of them are amazing.

Correction: All of them are amazing.

I'm thinking of doing/compiling an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn tweak guide.

xiaomhome · April 27th, 2007, 08:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unixlord

Correction: All of them are amazing.

I'm thinking of doing/compiling an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn tweak guide.

There are plenty of Ubuntu Guides, but a Ubuntu Tweak Guide is new. Thats a great idea, im hopping you really do it and make it open for everyone. Im not using Ubuntu, but since its a growing Distro i should give it a try in months or so, looks a promising distro with a weak KDE flavour and slow package updating. The thing i most like on it is the short release cycle. Sorry for the off-topic.

IModAmd · April 27th, 2007, 09:27 PM

The best tweak guide is the guide Xiaomhome mentioned i tryed it and i gain about 17.5 % better results on benchmarks games and etc ! Really try it Im an satisfacted costumer !

Mac Daddy · April 27th, 2007, 11:14 PM

Nice tips Anatomy THX for the post Bro

RingWraith · May 1st, 2007, 10:45 PM

Most, if not all of those tweaks were relevant for 98/ME/2000.

They are obsolete in XP.