Windows XP: Full Usage

Here it comes out, how. And I'm smearing snot here, I call on online stores to work on karma. In fact, it turns out that the goat is a bayan on the fig. In short, I end up hurting the people's soul with emotions and I undertake to give out 7 tons of solid miner to the mountain. Especially since vvechor naryl.

Today, Dovecot is addressed to those advanced comrades who are not afraid of novelty and long puff under Windows XP. I do not know how you are, but my results are just amazing: for five and a half months of continuous work there is not a single fall of the system. Yes there is a system: even a single local collapse of lonely standing unplugged applications was not recorded.

As usual with a Russian person, if everything is good, then it's not good and it's time to do something. Immediately there is an itchy unsatisfied desire to improve. Who said that the permanent revolution is a feature of the Russian character? Stupidity. This is a feature of the Jewish character. Russian people under the skin from birth were driven by permanent cravings to improve everything to the right and left. And the better things are, the stronger the traction. The left-hand man forged the flea not because he forced him before young men or the master, but because he sincerely wanted to improve flea nature, improve it, so to speak, motor functions.

It's no wonder that flawlessly functioning Windows XP on my computer was simply asking for improvement. And I found myself on the site http://www.tweakxp.com/.

I must say that the itching of improvement improves not only our person, judging by the monstrous popularity and attendance of this site. Actually, you can see for yourself, and Dovecot, as usual, will only save you time and health, because "tweaks" on the portal are collected already 333 pieces: I have already walked through them and selected 9 that do not sin empty-handed Adornment, and vsamdele bring real benefits.

Section of the User Interface, dedicated to the improvements to the appearance of XP, I discarded at once, as I dressed the new OS'a more than satisfied, and the splash screen that appears during loading (which one of the enhancements allows to be skipped or changed), does not bother at all.

In the System Performance section, I borrowed such improvements:

1. Accelerate the display of menus and lists. The pausing pauses are most annoying when you select the All Programs option from the start menu, or when expanding bookmarks in the browser. Elimination of these delays is foreseen as follows:

O Registry Editor (Regedit)
O The HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop key is located
O Select the MenuShowDelay option in the right window
O Select Modify from the context menu and set the value to 0
O The computer restarts

2. Delete the paging file with 512 or more megabytes of memory (Figure 1). This is just my case. Perhaps, this is the most effective way to just physically feel the acceleration of the computer. For this:

O From the context menu of the My Computer icon on the desktop, select Properties
O Next - Advanced - Settings - Advanced
O In the section describing virtual memory, the option No Paging File is installed. If very scary, then you can put something symbolic, for example, 50 MB.

3. Disable the caching of dynamic libraries (DLL). After the application has completed its work, the "dielelki" used by it continue to hang in memory for some time. It irritates me personally, because it contradicts the perfectionist nature. The dynamic libraries cache is disabled in this way:

O The registry contains the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer].
O A new sub-key is created. AlwaysUnloadDLL
O It is set to 1
O The computer is rebooted

4. Disabling Error Reporting - the persistent desire of XP to constantly send messages to developers on the occasion of the occurrence of each error (for example, hangup of an application). These desires are cut on the root simply, but tastefully:

O In the Control Panel, select System (System)
O The Advanced tab, then - Error Reporting
O Disable Error Reporting is enabled. The option But Notify me When critical errors occur I left not to remain unaware of unexpected failures (while God was merciful)

5. Disable messages about reducing the free space on hard disks. This thing bothered me beyond measure, as these messages come up very early (when tens of megabytes are still free) and indecently persistently. We cut down the verbiage:

O In the registry we find HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer \
O add a new DWORD called NoLowDiskSpaceChecks
O set its value to 1
O we are overloaded

6. Disable file indexing. Windows XP creates and maintains the index of all files on the disks in order to speed up their search. The reverse side of the coin - slows the execution of other commands such as open, close, etc. To me, the compromise itself seemed unsuccessful:

O Open My Computer
O From the context menu of the hard disk icons, select Properties
O Uncheck the option Allow indexing service to index this disk for faster searches
O In the window that appears, select the option Apply to all folders and subfolders
O Repeat the procedure for all remaining hard drives of your computer

7. Clear the paging file before turning off the computer. An absolutely obvious security measure, since a lot of information borrowed from RAM is stored in the swap-file. For the cleaning:

O In the registry, find the key KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Session Manager \ Memory Management
O Find the ClearPageFileAtShutdown
O Select Modify from the context menu and set the value to 1
O We reboot the computer

In the section of the Internet tweaks, I discovered a revolutionary feat, which really increases the speed of the Internet, and at any connection:

8. Release of the channel (bandwidth) reserved for the QoS service (Figure 2). This is such a tricky thing, which I would not have figured out if I had not read the XP improvements on the site. As it turned out, Windows XP by default allocates a part of the Internet channel for a very useful thing called Quality of Service (QoS). The purpose of QoS is to improve the distribution of the traffic of programs written with regard to the QoS API. Another thing is that these programs can not be found in the daytime (it's more true, they do not cost me personally), therefore, reserving a channel for unnecessary services is an inadmissible luxury. Here's what you need to do in order to free up the already narrow channel of domestic connection to the Internet:

? In the Start-Run menu, run the Group Policy Editor: gpedit.msc. Please note that in order to perform all these procedures, you must log in as Administrator.
? In the Computer Configuration section (in the left window), select Administrative Templates
? Next Network and then in the right pane select QoS Packet Scheduler and click it twice
? Select the option limit reservable bandwidth and again click on it twice
? In the window that opens, enable Enabled, and then specify the channel limit as a percentage equal to zero.
? OK and exit the program. But that is not all. ? Go to the network configuration (icon Network Connections in the Control Panel)
? Select your connection and launch Properties from the context menu
? In the Networking tab, make sure that the QoS Packet Scheduler protocol is enabled. If it is not there, add it from the list (via the Install button)
? Restart the computer.

All these complex passes with the forcible inclusion of the service and the subsequent allocation of the zero channel under it are caused by the fact that if we simply turn off the Quality of Service, then, as is often the case with our anti-cops, the system will still reserve 20% of the channel for it.

A few more Internet enhancements:

9. Disable scheduled tasks. Whenever MSIE 6.0 connects to the server, it spends time checking the availability of scheduled jobs associated with the address. Since I have never used and do not plan to use the Explorer synchronization function, I disabled the Task Scheduler:

? In the registry, you need to remove the following key - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ explorer \ RemoteComputer \ NameSpace \ {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}.

10. Change the directory that MSIE uses by default to download files. Very useful thing:

? In the registry is already familiar to us the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer
? For the Download Directory line, select the path you need, say D: \ Downloads

Of course, the list of my improvements is subjective and not complete, as it should be. But dashing trouble is the beginning. The site address you now know, so you can safely improve your computer before blue (screen). Only - chur! - No later claims to the author Golubyaten.