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1. Last access update is another feature that I'd turn off and will help you get a little more performance out of your hard drive. What is this? NTFS updates the date stamp on directories whenever it opens the directory. To turn this rather useless feature off browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentContolSet\Control\Filesystem and change the NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate registry entry to 1
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
"NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate"=dword:00000001
2. Short names is something that is needed for DOS compatibility. Most of us will want to turn this off. The only time you'll want to leave this on is if you are supporting DOS or win 3x based clients. I think all of us have some machines like that in our CLOSET but certainly not in use. To turn this off you'll have to go browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Filesystem in your registry and change the default value of the NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation registry entry to 1.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
"NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation"=dword:00000001
Or to put both of them to use insert this into your *.reg file
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
"NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation"=dword:00000001
"NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate"=dword:00000001
Reboot after making changes.
Memory Performance
Improving memory performance can be done simply by preventing your hard drive from being used for cache. This is only useful with 256Mb or more of RAM.
Everything that you'll need to edit here can be found in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session Manager/Memory Management
So of course add [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management] to your *.reg file.
Disable Paging Executive
This will prevent pages sections from RAM going to the hard drive. If you have a large amount of RAM at least 256Mb (I suggest 512) you might want to keep the data in your RAM to improve your performance considerably due to reduced amount of hard drive swappage. The entry that you will want to modify is called DisablePagingExecutive. Changing this from 0 to 1 will keep the data in your RAM.
"DisablePagingExecutive"=dword:00000001
System Cache Boost
The XP kernel can be loaded into your RAM with a simple registry edit. This can greatly improve performance since the NT Kernel will always be in your RAM. With this edit you will allocate roughly 4Mb of your RAM for the kernel. Sometimes more RAM is used but most of the time it is only 4Mb. The entry that you will need to find is called LargeSystemCache and you'll need to change this from 0 to 1 in order to enable this.
"LargeSystemCache"=dword:00000001
To put both of these RAM tweaks into use you'll add something like this to your reg file
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
"DisablePagingExecutive"=dword:00000001
"LargeSystemCache"=dword:00000001
Disable Virtual Memory
Right click my computer
Click the advanced tab
Click the settings button under performance
Click the advanced tab
Click change by Virtual Memory
If you have more than 512Mb of RAM I suggest you click no paging file
Click set then ok 3 times and you'll need to reboot
This may cause your system to quit booting
DirectX based games that use large textures will often times NOT be able to run even when you have 512Mb of RAM.
Adobe products also have problems with this it seems at ANY RAM size. It's worth trying but if your adobe programs quit working afterwards this will most likely be the reason.
The only limitation is that the drive can only be 32MB in size. :(
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you may experience a severe and random decrease in performance. For example, this decrease in performance can include very slow system performance, stop errors, an inability to start the computer, devices or applications that do not load, and system instability.
see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/895932
it needs to read
"SecondLevelDataCache"=dword:00000100 so you get a dword
instead of
"SecondLevelDataCache"="100" which gives you a string
now i must research all the other tweaks suggested by this dork before i reboot my system and make it unusable!!
THANKS
Some of these reply posts are quite funny, to me. I guess if you are about to embark on these types of changes, perhaps you should actually *know* what it is your are doing to your system?
"Editing the registry directly can have serious, unexpected consequences that can prevent the system from starting and require that you reinstall..."
[link name=]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q183/0/63.ASP&NoWebContent=1[/link]
WTF does that mean? Does it mean the swap file can be no less than 32 MB?
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
"NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation"=dword:00000001
"NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate"=dword:00000001
this needs to be disable by changing it to
"NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation"=dword:00000000
thus enabling NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation
Thought you all might need to know this... This crappy post wasted most of my week end...
http://www.tweak.cc/ goes to some "buy this domain" link.
QoS info - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q316666
L2 cache info - No link, but here's the quote from their guide on it;
SecondLevelDataCache. For those of you with older CPUs (Pre-Pentium 2 basically), this DWORD Value specifies the amount of L2 (Secondary) Cache on your CPU. Normally this amount will be determined via the HAL, although with older CPUs with off-die L2 Cache this may not be the case. Those with semi-modern CPUs (Pentium 2 or newer) should leave this set to 0 (As should those with Multiple CPUs). If you have greater than, or less than 256KB of L2 Cache on your (old) CPU then Right click on this entry & select Modify. Select the Decimal button & enter in the amount of L2 Cache available, e.g. If you have 512KB L2 Cache then enter in 512. Thanks Ojatex. Where Windows XP in unable to determine the L2 Cache available & this is set to 0 it will default to assuming 256KB L2 Cache is available.
While most is common knowledge or easily configured using Tweak XP your section on HDD and mem is new to me. Thanks for the great tips and I will use them
Anon can you post a link of the Microsoft Article?
Apart from that this is just the same old info. available on other sits months ago