Common WinXP Tweaks

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  1. ToshiroOC

    ToshiroOC Unbiased.

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    Schweet. Just out of curiosity, does anyone have an easy way to make a RAMDRIVE that will load information from my hard drive automatically upon boot and write the changes to the hard drive upon shut down so I essentially have an extremely fast, extremely small hard drive that happens to have a backup on my real hard drive? I've got several uses in mind for something like this, including doing video editing for small clips there.. oh, I have 512mb of DDRRAM.... Thanks to anyone who can help!
     
    ToshiroOC, Dec 24, 2002
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  2. Ville85

    Ville85 New Member

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    It's easier to crap those tweaks fromTWEAKXP.

    And there are also good explanations for each tweak, how will those effect to your system performance.
     
    Ville85, Dec 24, 2002
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  3. osmosis

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    Nice Job!!
     
    osmosis, Dec 28, 2002
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  4. ToshiroOC

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    Don't forget that defragmenting your hard drive can do more for your paging file performance than a thousand small tweaks to the usage settings :)
     
    ToshiroOC, Dec 28, 2002
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  5. RACEOMATIC

    RACEOMATIC Pecan Grower

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    I have been looking for that pagging file tweak Thanks nice job.
     
    RACEOMATIC, Jan 3, 2003
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  6. Louie6666

    Louie6666 Just One Sick-Lizard

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    Something peeps might find useful if they have to register/unregister dll & ocx files...puts it on right click, just copy & paste this(below line) to note pad & save as .reg
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    REGEDIT4

    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\Register]

    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\Register\command]@="regsvr32 %1"

    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\Unregister]

    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\Unregister\command]@="regsvr32 /u %1"

    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\shell\Register]

    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\shell\Register\command]
    @="regsvr32 %1"

    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\shell\UnRegister]

    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\shell\UnRegister\command]
    @="regsvr32 /u %1"
     
    Louie6666, Jan 3, 2003
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  7. feyang

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    nice...

    thanks :)
     
    feyang, Jan 16, 2003
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  8. mau108

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    XTEQ seems to have great tweaks (newest version out 6.3)

    I personally like to doo things my self,

    I look to these 2 sites

    http://www.xptuneup.com
    and
    http://www.tweakxp.com

    Also there are serveral guides no tweaking XP's services, which have a great impact on the whole ;)
     
    mau108, Jan 16, 2003
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  9. Cyan007

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    Hmm, what if I have 384 MB's RAM, which should I use in that circumstance?
     
    Cyan007, Feb 14, 2003
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  10. nieves

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    I'd recommend the The 256 megs tweak. I also have 384 megs and I tried both. I found the 256 megs tweak to perform better in my case. But it couldn't hurt to try them both, yourself. See which you like better. A reboot is all you need to switch between configs after you import the corresponding .reg file.
     
    nieves, Feb 17, 2003
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    I just wanted to note here that when I did the Large System Cache tweak and the Disable Paging Executive tweak together I received this error message.
    Stop 0x000000ED Error Message When Volume on IDE Drive with Caching Enabled Is Mounted
    It may have been just because of the first tweak but I was able to reproduce it. The SP apparently fixes this.
    It is addressed in the Microsoft knowledge base at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315403
     
    drwright, May 1, 2003
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  12. BuRnInICE

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    I recently took out 512mb of my ddr to put into my other system so I was only left with 512mb but my caching was set high from tweaknow and I forgot to change it to a lower setting, so people who do that, lol make sure u lower the setting first because your system tends to chunk in a game :p
     
    BuRnInICE, May 1, 2003
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  13. tek

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    Thanks... bout to import Fast Shut-Down ;)
    EDIT: Can somebody post which .reg I should use if I have 512MB DDRAM?
     
    tek, May 5, 2003
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    the fast shut-down is coool ;)
     
    nuttah, May 5, 2003
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  15. nForcer

    nForcer Twice the fun!

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    Updated

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    nForcer, May 9, 2003
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    Kgentatszu] New Member

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    guys...
    i'm in for the XP tweaks,actually BUT i do have one question.......'bout the tweaks in the .reg file.....if that tweak is a good one.....why didnt Microsoft activate those tweaks in the first place??
     
    Kgentatszu], May 21, 2003
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  17. nForcer

    nForcer Twice the fun!

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    One word - Compatibility.
     
    nForcer, May 22, 2003
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  18. Kgentatszu]

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    thankz, but all in all , what's the best tweak which can boost performance out of my PC. (list from maximum boost to minimum boost)
     
    Kgentatszu], May 22, 2003
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  19. PangingJr

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    i Think, the reason for that is..
    standard xp will work okay on every machines that meet its minimum requirement,
    since all have diffs in hardwares and also for hows/whats user intention to use XP for!,
    xp(or all windows) allow us to adjust it and most of it will be in windows registry so that it'll work better on our machine.
    there should be no standard for "tweak"
     
    PangingJr, May 23, 2003
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  20. PangingJr

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    i hope it's okay to post on this old thread..

    if you happen to always disable the following services in Windows XP Pro like mine,
    or perhaps you need/like to do a new installation very often. you might find this useful....

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    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
    ;Disabling XP Pro Services(34 Services)

    ;Note- Save file as a .reg extension (e.g. DisableXPservices.reg),
    ;merge/import the .reg file into registry will disable 34 services at once
    ;(Services status will change after rebooting)
    ;if you like to return to default setting, use "DefualtXPservices.reg"

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Alerter]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wuauserv]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BITS]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ClipSrv]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ERSvc]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\helpsvc]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cisvc]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PolicyAgent]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Messenger]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\mnmsrvc]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetDDE]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetDDEdsdm]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NtLmSsp]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SysmonLog]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WmdmPmSN]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RSVP]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RDSessMgr]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RemoteRegistry]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\seclogon]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SCardSvr]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SCardDrv]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SSDPSRV]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\srservice]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LmHosts]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TlntSvr]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UPS]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\upnphost]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\uploadmgr]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WZCSVC]
    "Start"=dword:00000004
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WmiApSrv]
    "Start"=dword:00000004

    -----------------------------------------

    -----------------------------------------

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
    ;Defualt XP services

    ;Note- Save file as a .reg extension (e.g. DefualtXPservices.reg),
    ;merge/import the file will change services to defualt settings at once
    ;(Services status will change after rebooting)

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Alerter]
    "Start"=dword:00000003
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wuauserv]
    "Start"=dword:00000002
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BITS]
    "Start"=dword:00000003
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ClipSrv]
    "Start"=dword:00000003
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser]
    "Start"=dword:00000002
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ERSvc]
    "Start"=dword:00000002
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\helpsvc]
    "Start"=dword:00000002
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cisvc]
    "Start"=dword:00000003
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PolicyAgent]
    "Start"=dword:00000002
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Messenger]
    "Start"=dword:00000002
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon]
    "Start"=dword:00000002
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\mnmsrvc]
    "Start"=dword:00000003
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetDDE]
    "Start"=dword:00000003
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetDDEdsdm]
    "Start"=dword:00000003
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NtLmSsp]
    "Start"=dword:00000003
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SysmonLog]
    "Start"=dword:00000003
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WmdmPmSN]
    "Start"=dword:00000002
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RSVP]
    "Start"=dword:00000003
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RDSessMgr]
    "Start"=dword:00000003
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RemoteRegistry]
    "Start"=dword:00000002
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\seclogon]
    "Start"=dword:00000002
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SCardSvr]
    "Start"=dword:00000003
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SCardDrv]
    "Start"=dword:00000003
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SSDPSRV]
    "Start"=dword:00000003
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\srservice]
    "Start"=dword:00000002
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LmHosts]
    "Start"=dword:00000002
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TlntSvr]
    "Start"=dword:00000003
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UPS]
    "Start"=dword:00000003
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\upnphost]
    "Start"=dword:00000003
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\uploadmgr]
    "Start"=dword:00000002
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient]
    "Start"=dword:00000002
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time]
    "Start"=dword:00000002
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WZCSVC]
    "Start"=dword:00000002
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WmiApSrv]
    "Start"=dword:00000003

    ----------------------------------------------

    below is for info only NOT for using in windows registry

    ;Windows XP Pro services default settings

    "Start"=dword:00000004 - Disable
    "Start"=dword:00000002 - Automatc
    "Start"=dword:00000003 - Manual

    ;1) Alerter - default = Manual
    ;2) Automatic Updates = Automatic
    ;3) Background Intelligent Transfer Service = Manual
    ;4) ClipBook = Manual
    ;5) Computer Browser = Automatic
    ;6) Error Reporting = Automatic
    ;7) Help and Support = Automatic
    ;8) Indexing Service = Manual
    ;9) IPSEC = Automatic
    ;10) Messenger = Automatic
    ;11) Net Login = Automatic
    ;12) NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing = Manual
    ;13) Network DDE = Manual
    ;14) Network DDE DSDM = Manual
    ;15) NT LM Security Support Provider = Manual
    ;16) Performance Logs and Alerts = Manual
    ;17) Portable Media Serial Number = Automatic
    ;18) QoS RSVP = Manual
    ;19) Remote Desktop Help Session Manager = Manual
    ;20) Remote Registry Service = Automatic
    ;21) Secondary Logon = Automatic
    ;22) Smart Card = Manual
    ;23) Smart Card Helper = Manual
    ;24) SSDP Discovery Service = Manual
    ;25) System Restore Service = Automatic
    ;26) TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Service = Automatic
    ;27) Telnet = Manual
    ;28) Uninterruptible Power Supply = Manual
    ;29) Universal Plugand Play Device Host = Manual
    ;30) Upload Manager = Automatic
    ;31) WebClient = Automatic
    ;32) Windows Time = Automatic
    ;33) Wireless ZeroConfiguration = Automatic
    ;34) WMI Performance Adapter = Manual
     
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