Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 23:08:11 +0100 From: "Nick Rees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] XP Pro cutdowns - Was: USB Card
> > >You'd have a fit at my setup : > > > >233MMX > >64MB RAM > >40GB Hitachi/IBM Travelstar - > > 8GB 'C' > > 10GB 'D' > > 4GB 'E' > > 10GB 'F' > > ~5.3GB 'G' (rest of disk) > >XP Pro (with lots and lots of cutdowns found on the web - actually runs > >pretty well) > > If yo have them, I'd love to see a list of those links to the XP Pro > 'cutdowns' as you put it. I've probably run all the same tweaks to get the > OS working a bit more snappy (snappily?). But I still run into things in XP > that can be really slow... like the search utility that takes ages to boot, > and ages to scan for files. I'm actually seriously considering going to > Win2000, but the support WinXP has for most everything out there is a nice > feature I might miss. I had to do a quick trawl for the page I got the ideas from, they're not mine in origin and I wasn't going to take credit (or abuse) for them. Here's the link : http://www.fixup.net/talk/archive/200207/000009ff.htm warning thought! There's no linefeeds, page breaks, etc . . . Most of them are service hacks, basically you switch options to manual only so they don't run, or even disabled if you'll never use them! What I have done is this : Disable Remote Assistance service Disable System Restore service (waste of disk space) Disable Automatic Update service (can still run it manually) Disable Firewall & Connection sharing (why? i've got a hub and a ADSL router . . . ) Disable Fast User Switching (only me that uses it) Disable Themes service (I prefer the look of W2K, and by stopping this service it switches you back to this for free and you gain CPU time) There's also the Indexing service which helps you locate files, but for my use this is a waste of CPU time so i've disabled it. I've been playing around with the swapfile too, trying to find a decent partition to locate it on. But no real luck yet there. Do what you will . . . I will advise this though, I work with W2K all day long at work on Dell Latitudes and my boss' PIII 1.2GHz with 1GB RAM took 20mins to boot into W2K and my 233MMX Lib with 64MB and XP Pro was working in a couple of minutes . . . Nick. ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
