Look at THIS!! GREAT XP Tweaks...

[krazefinn]

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

Title ses it all, was cleaning up a super slowly sluggardly system, stop the sibilance swiftly!

[Rocketmech]

BV was one of the 1st XP tweak sites with his "Services Configuration" tweaks. Good to see he's still supporting it , now with SP2 tweaks. :cool: 'stuff

[sm8000]

His advice for Win2k has made my PC rocket-fast. I have 17 processes running at startup/idle. I'm sure I could trim a couple more.

[krazefinn]

I just set up two on pro, one with the power user/ barebones tweaks, the other with "safe", just to compare. They both responded nicely, both are close to same (well, 1.6 p4/768 sdram/copuke) the other 1.6 Athlon (xp2,2) ecs k7s5a/ddr 512.

The ddr/poweruser setup just crashed on me, no bluescree or error message, just a hardlock to grey screen. Not sure what caused, or if related, but I did pull off 350+ spyware with adaware off it, my daughter and wife used that one primarily. It also had a halfdozen search/download/homepage hijack proggies, despite being on hw firewall/ ZOneAlarm and they were supposed to be (but apparently not) using adaware se.

What is common cause for grey screen hardlock?

Am doing scandisk in safe mode now, very slow. Also noticed my dvd drive was in pio4, itis dma able, but can't for whatever reason.

[krazefinn]

Scandisk seemed to rectify it, booting faster. Don't miss all the eyecandy al over xp. If it remains stable will keep the maximum tweaks. Scandisk repor was negaive, could have been just one of those windoze anomalies.

The only tweak i didn't apply was disable sysrestore, need it still because I've got quite abit of hardware and software to reload. I did reduce the ridiculous disk volume allocated to it though. May apply that tweak after I burn a clean install/fully loaded/patched os and program list. Then I'll be able to do manual fresh reinstall in minutes, might not need sysrestore, which apparently is huge resource drain.

[crossedup]

Havent been to the BV site in a while, good to see he still has some good info there.

Printed out and going to experiment. Got home and pro running on a few test rigs, will see what happens.

[dajogejr]

Yep...thanks Kraz...

I tried some of these tips on my work rig (XP Pro, on a domain...) and a few things didn't work..but, I worked out the kinks.

Home, however...sped my PC up a lot. And, it was already fast!!

Gonna have to go revisit this when I get home.

Cheers all!!

:t

[krazefinn]

Update on the hardlocking problem after applying maximum tweaks: had to for some reason turn memory timings from ultra to fast, ddr set to 6-2-3,although the latencies specified on the valuram is 2.5.
No more lock ups. I sure do not understand why using less memory for overhead services would cause this, but I can live with it. The responsiveness increase is nice, and doing ctrl-alt-delete checking memory leak shows reduction, also in cpu usage.
Apparently these tweaks do free up quite abit of resource. The next box I apply it to I will quantify both memory and cpu usage b4 and after.

[sm8000]

Attached is my list of tasks that run at idle, and services. This is on Windows 2000 Pro.



I've never seen 0% CPU :eek:

[ShadeZeRO]

how come i can't get to the site...hmm...


Nvm fixed it

[ShadeZeRO]

Hmm, i still have 30+ processes...

Any idea's on how i can cut down?

[sm8000]

Use msconfig to clean out your startup. Also google for how to deal with ctfmon.exe, it's a part of MS Office. And if you don't have a printer, disable spoolsv.exe.

[ShadeZeRO]

I dont like msconfig, i just use regedit, and get rid of stuff i dont need. And i got rid of the ctfmon from the ms knowledge base.

Whats up with the ATI2evxx stuff...

[krazefinn]

Msconfig not the best way to set global permissions.

"Services.msc" the new way to go.

[sm8000]

msconfig works for some things, it's a good place to start. You still have ctfmon showing in your task list, unless you got rid of it since I mentioned it. ati2evxx is part of your ATi software, check your services and msconfig, some of ATi's software can be safely disabled at startup.