Windows XP Optimization Guide

Jimmy 2004 · Jun 12, 2006

Well it doesn't do any harm to apply it so if anyone wants to they can feel free. I don't personally do it because I don't think it does make a difference.

bim27142 · Jun 15, 2006

this is a good guide!!!

Steevo · Jun 22, 2006

The L2 cache was-is for older systes that had a l2 cache on the motherbard. All new L2 is controlled by the CPU as it is a integrated part.

Kinda like the old Soyo I used to have. *enter dreamy waves and blurred edges*

xman2007 · Jun 26, 2006

thank you very much, as someone else stated this has helped my xp load up time by around 10secs

1 thing tho the service telephony which i disabled is actually used by my speedtouch adsl usb modem so i had to re-enable that but aside from that no bad side effects cheers

Aegis · Jul 11, 2006

Nope, the SecondLevelDataCache doesn't even help speed up L2 Cache detection:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q183063/

And the IRQ prioritization tweak doesn't do anything. Can't find my source at the moment though.

Jimmy 2004 · Jul 11, 2006

I think it's hard for these arguements to be settled because all different sources have different reasons and opinions. I personally don't bother with them anymore BUT it doesn't do any harm to apply them so if it keeps you happy...

zekrahminator · Jul 11, 2006

This guide is amazing! It was easy to do everything, even for someone like me who's scared to touch the registry

. Anyways, thanks a ton, keep up the good work.

Alec§taar · Jul 11, 2006

Hey Mikey! He likes it...

See subject-line/title above:

zekrahminator said:
This guide is amazing! It was easy to do everything, even for someone like me who's scared to touch the registry . Anyways, thanks a ton, keep up the good work.

Heh, another "convert"... & now that you're no longer "afraid" of registry tweaking/hacking etc. et al, you'll probably go @ it like no tomorrow from now on, on every setup you do!

(E.G.-> A GOOD TIP TO USE: I export the original registry areas to .reg files, and then do the tweaks & export them to .reg files as well - makes for QUICK system hacks for performance, AND the ability to undo them as well... keep this in mind, it's a REAL TIMESAVER!)

* Doing this stuff, does make a BIG diff. to many things on your system... been doing it for years myself since the NT 3.51 days (not near as much to tweak, but it was a starting point)...

APK

P.S.=> I got a big "kick" outta the folks from the first page onwards saying stuff like "I shaved 10 seconds off my boot" etc. & more... it does work, for speed AND security! apk

Jimmy 2004 · Jul 11, 2006

zekrahminator said:
This guide is amazing! It was easy to do everything, even for someone like me who's scared to touch the registry . Anyways, thanks a ton, keep up the good work.

Yeah, the registry can be scary but in general, if you are a little careful you're unlikely to do too much damage and it can be extremely useful to edit to remove traces of programs that don't uninstall and fix little errors.

15th Warlock · Jul 11, 2006

Great guide Death Star!

*****

Jimmy 2004 · Jul 11, 2006

And it was his only post... probably doesn't even read our commends :cry:

!

Alec§taar · Jul 11, 2006

Not sure I included this one, but it's a decent hack for multitasking performance

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Executive]
"AdditionalCriticalWorkerThreads"=dword:00000002
"AdditionalDelayedWorkerThreads"=dword:00000002

(Watch the spaces before the last "02" here, if you copy this one! For SOME reason, the forums board here inserts a space prior to it... manually edit it is my recommendation!)

That is another "interesting" one for those of you that have DualCore/H-T Intel Chips/or TRUE SMP setups, & it extends upon what is in here:

APK Internet Security & Speed tuneups:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Goto:

http://www.avatar.demon.nl

and you see on top of the menu a
Windows® flag

* They work well...

(Those pages extend upon the guide by DeathStar here & I am NOT SURE if I have this one listed above (adding worker threads hack) in the 2 guides above (they have more than DeathStar's guide does for more areas of potential performance gain & security as well)).

APK

P.S.=> I add 2 extra threads, this supposedly helps in multitasking... apk

zekrahminator · Jul 11, 2006

Well, general system response is better, games are running smoothly, everything is going nicely...except 3Dmark05 :laugh:

. I don't even want to GUESS how much lower my score is now, all I know is I get like 10fps lower Battle for Proxycon...I cancel the rest of the benchmark out of shame lol.

demonbrawn · Jul 12, 2006

whoah! That ram setting really sped up performance! Awesome....

Alec§taar · Jul 13, 2006

demonbrawn said:
whoah! That ram setting really sped up performance! Awesome....

If you're referring to the one I put up above (more about OS threads than RAM really)?

* It should!

(Especially for you & others w/ SMP-DualCore rigs...)

APK

P.S.=> Believe me, more where that came from, if you visit that URL I put up above... apk

Alec§taar · Jul 13, 2006

WazzleDoozle, got gmail err/abend msg... see inside

demonbrawn said:
whoah! That ram setting really sped up performance! Awesome....

If you're referring to the one I put up above (more about OS threads than RAM really)?

* It should!

(Especially for you & others w/ SMP-DualCore rigs...)

APK

P.S.=> Believe me, more where that came from, if you visit that URL I put up above... apk

demonbrawn · Jul 13, 2006

Not sure I included this one, but it's a decent hack for multitasking performance
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Executive]
"AdditionalCriticalWorkerThreads"=dword:000000 02
"AdditionalDelayedWorkerThreads"=dword:0000000 2

(Watch the spaces before the last "02" here, if you copy this one! For SOME reason, the forums board here inserts a space prior to it... manually edit it is my recommendation!)

That is another "interesting" one for those of you that have DualCore/H-T Intel Chips/or TRUE SMP setups, & it extends upon what is in here:

If this is the one you're referring to, then no I haven't tried this one yet.

Jimmy 2004 · Jul 13, 2006

I'd also recommend AGAINST turning off automatic update unless you visit the Windows Update website every couple of days because it could leave you more vulnerable to certain attacks and has very little impact upon performance, even for users with slower computers and 56K, because the service will run in the background anyway even if this is disabled.

GIGGLA · Jul 13, 2006

Here is a pretty good guide 175 pages I implemented the recommended tweaks and shaved at least 10-15 seconds off my boot time and my system shuts down in 4 seconds- http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html

Jimmy 2004 · Jul 13, 2006

GIGGLA said:
Here is a pretty good guide 175 pages I implemented the recommended tweaks and shaved at least 10-15 seconds off my boot time and my system shuts down in 4 seconds- http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html

Already posted a link to it in post #12.

GIGGLA · Jul 13, 2006

The above link tweakguides.com will tell you how to tweak all your games too!

gR3iF · Jul 13, 2006

is it worth the work?

i mean some tweaks are pretty good and helps windows to be better, faster, more stable or just good ;P

but sometimes it goes to far?

Jimmy 2004 · Jul 13, 2006

I just apply tweaks from that site when I get the time, sort of a gradual process. I only use the major tweaks from that guide because some of it is wrong/misleading but in general it isn't a bad guide and some of the game tweaking guides can give some of the deeper information on how to boost performance.

gR3iF · Jul 13, 2006

jup but the biggest boost you get out of some things like disable last acces timestamp
or disable that dlls are saved in the ram and so on^^

NamesDontMatter · Jul 13, 2006

I suppose I can give you guys one of mine

-*Speed Boot - Shave 2 Seconds*-
Create a batch file by doing the following:

1. Open notepad and enter the following lines:
-. RD /S /q "C:\Documents and Settings\"UserName without quotes"\Local Settings\History"
-. RD /S /q "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\History"
-. RD /S /q "D:\Temp\" <--"Deletes temp folder, type in the location of your temp folder"
2. Save the fily and then rename is something like deltemp.bat
3. Now click Start, Run and type in gpedit.msc ->Computer Configuration ->Windows Settings ->Scripts and double click on Shutdown
-. ->Click Add and find the batch file you created and press ok to set the script

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