Comments on: A faster Windows XP? Here’s how! http://www.levelerslair.com/wordpress/2006/10/21/a-faster-windows-xp-here%e2%80%99s-how/ Software, Computer Help Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:45:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Guest http://www.levelerslair.com/wordpress/2006/10/21/a-faster-windows-xp-here%e2%80%99s-how/comment-page-1/#comment-650 Guest Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:31:08 +0000 http://leesystems.no-ip.com/wordpress/?p=40#comment-650 You fail at life Larry. Learn to spell ;) Tweaks f*cking rule!! You fail at life Larry. Learn to spell ;)
Tweaks f*cking rule!!

]]> By: Larry Miller http://www.levelerslair.com/wordpress/2006/10/21/a-faster-windows-xp-here%e2%80%99s-how/comment-page-1/#comment-633 Larry Miller Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:55:18 +0000 http://leesystems.no-ip.com/wordpress/?p=40#comment-633 A few problems here F. OPTIMISE YOUR PAGEFILE: The suggestions here could easily cause severe performance problems becasue of a pagefile that is too small. A better solution would be to set the configuration to System Managed. Contrary to popular opinion this is NOT inefficient. No pagefile resizing will occur in most cases. I. IMPROVE XP SHUTDOWN SPEED: WARNING Using the suggested settings could cause data loss. The default settings are safer. If shutdown time is a excessive it is best to troubleshoot the problem and not use a registry modification. J. IMPROVE SWAPFILE PERFORMANCE: conservativeswapfileusage is not supported on XP. This setting is for Windows 98 and Windows ME ONLY. It has never been supported on any other system. XP manages memory very well on it's own without any such tweaks. K. ENSURE XP IS USING DMA MODE: This will be selected by default if it is supported on your hardware. If it is not supported it will be reset after a reboot. Larry Miller Microsoft MCSA A few problems here
F. OPTIMISE YOUR PAGEFILE:
The suggestions here could easily cause severe performance problems becasue of a pagefile that is too small. A better solution would be to set the configuration to System Managed. Contrary to popular opinion this is NOT inefficient. No pagefile resizing will occur in most cases.

I. IMPROVE XP SHUTDOWN SPEED:
WARNING Using the suggested settings could cause data loss. The default settings are safer. If shutdown time is a excessive it is best to troubleshoot the problem and not use a registry modification.

J. IMPROVE SWAPFILE PERFORMANCE:
conservativeswapfileusage is not supported on XP. This setting is for Windows 98 and Windows ME ONLY. It has never been supported on any other system. XP manages memory very well on it’s own without any such tweaks.

K. ENSURE XP IS USING DMA MODE:
This will be selected by default if it is supported on your hardware. If it is not supported it will be reset after a reboot.

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA

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