Do you tweak your windows?

conzy

I usually use Nlite to strip out parts of windows I dont need... but I reinstalled windows the other day and it takes ages to boot, I used to be able to boot in 25 seconds or so...

So do you tweak your windows installs in any way? If so how do you do it?

WizZard

nLite is the only/best/easiest way! nLite FTW

It's the programs you install afterwards that are the main culprits of boot/loading slowdown I find.
Try Bootvis to speed up the loading of drivers/programs.

kippy

http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12
Would usually follow the instructions there combined with using msconfig to stop some of the unneeded startup programmes....
Also disable all the fancy background transitioning if it is XP.

I played around with NLITE lately though and it looks the business.

PogMoThoin

Ya, i've a list ere printed out, something like majorgeek instructions. dunno where i got it. Have tuned windows everytime i reinstalled. I disable as many services as possible. Must get nlite tho.

Cuddlesworth

I remember a while back reading that Windows Xp will always have a slower boot time with over clocked systems. Do you find that when its booting up, everything sort of stops for about 10-20 seconds?

DemonOfTheFall

conzymaher wrote:

I usually use Nlite to strip out parts of windows I dont need... but I reinstalled windows the other day and it takes ages to boot, I used to be able to boot in 25 seconds or so...

So do you tweak your windows installs in any way? If so how do you do it?

You can't go too nuts with removing things with nLite. I remove very few things from my windows installs these days because nliting too much stuff out will ALWAYS break things randomly. I only take out the security center and a few other useless apps.

poggy

i just use the msconfig command, uncheck the boxes i think i dont need can get windows down to 11 processes if i try but generally run about 15-16, just after startup.
boot takes anout 40 secconds on normal drive.

conzy

I remember a while back reading that Windows Xp will always have a slower boot time with over clocked systems. Do you find that when its booting up, everything sort of stops for about 10-20 seconds?

Well it shows the loading screen with the bars for around a minute?? But once its in windows it very fast...

Im not overclocked at the minute, I loaded optimized defaults while installing windows which could actually be my problem because the DFI board sets some weird timings for the ram, I will set it back to my usual settings and see what happens.....

You can't go too nuts with removing things with nLite. I remove very few things from my windows installs these days because nliting too much stuff out will ALWAYS break things randomly. I only take out the security center and a few other useless apps.

I know, I learned that the hard way! I spent a few hours removing every last piece I didnt use and used loads of tweaks....

It wouldnt even boot

I just removed the tour, msn explorer, security centre, and some other useless stuff, but nothing major...

I also havent dont any service/startup tweaking yet so that could be adding to the problem....

While were on the topic of windows, does anyone have any other tips or things they do?

I was thinking of making an image of my windows partition, and instead of reinstalling next time, just restore the image...

WizZard

conzymaher wrote:

While were on the topic of windows, does anyone have any other tips or things they do?

There are plenty of facts on this site to help you.

Diddy Kong

lol

ye, nlite all the way, apart from stripping out the unwanted stuff, nice and handy to include the drivers/apps I want. The unattended setup is just perfect.

gline

yeh nlite is pretty good, but windows being windows it still does get slower the more u install

CombatCow

I found if you disable the secondary ide channels in the device manager it will stop windows looking for a HDD or CD drive on boot up that isnt there

CC

Anti

pfft windows

Shame on you all

conzy

WizZard wrote:

There are plenty of facts on this site to help you.

:mad:

astrofool

anti wrote:

pfft windows

Shame on you all

I'm sure you're using OSX/Linux to play the games using your ageia card...

Anti

astrofool wrote:

I'm sure you're using OSX/Linux to play the games using your ageia card...

if only

Skud

I followed the process disabling on majour geeks to speed up things on my laptop now its not picking up my wireless connection at home... You know which process is responisible for that without me having to go back through the whole lot again?

kippy

The "Wireless Zero Configuration" service is most likely the culprit.
Set it to Automatic and start it......

As always make sure you have some clue of what services you are disabling and what services you need.
Kippy

Skud

Ya found that and zonealarm picked up my wireless network but my mistake in not adding the ip range into it.. So think zonealarm was the one causing the problems and not anything else. I'll check when i go home sure ... Ta