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Before After Business Disk WinMark 99 6760 6760 High-End Disk WinMark 99 17700 17900 AVS/Express 3.4 74300 74800 FrontPage 98 27200 27400 MicroStation SE 17100 17400 Photoshop 4.0 7050 7030 Premiere 4.2 16600 17900 Sound Forge 4.0 21600 21600 Visual C++ 5.0 18900 19300 13. MSConfig If you like to use MSCONFIG from Windows98, you can still use it with Windows NT. Just copy the file to a place in your path (e.g. \WINNT). You will get an error about a file Regenv32.exe. It will work fine without it but I just copied that file from Windows 98 as well. 14. Stop NTFS volume from generating MS-DOS compatible 8.3 file names Disabling this feature can increase the performance on heavily used NTFS partitions that have large amount of files with long filenames. Warning: Some 16 bit installation programs may have problems with this option enabled, you can either re-enabled 8.3 creation during the install or use directory names in the non LFN format i.e. "c:\progra~1\applic~1" Registry Settings: Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem] Value Name: NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation Data Type: REG_DWORD Data: (0=disable, 1=enable) 15. Increase NTFS Peformance by Disabling the Last Access Time Stamp When Windows NT accesses a directory on an NTFS volume, it updates the LastAccess time stamp on each directory it detects. Therefore, if there are a large number of directories, this can affect performance. Open your registry and find the key below. Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, named "NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate" and set it to "1" to prevent the LastAccess time stamp from being updated. Restart Windows for the change to take effect. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate 0x00000001 (1) 16. Increase your network performance If you increase the number of buffers that the redirector reservers for network performance, it may increase your network throughput. Each extra execution thread that you configure will take 1k of additional nonpaged pool memory, but only if your applications actually use them. To configure additional buffers and threads, edit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters Modify or Add Value of type REG_DWORD for 'MaxCmds' The range is 0 - 255 and the default is 15 'MaxThreads' Set it to the same value as MaxCmds. You may also want to increase the value of 'MaxCollectionCount'. This REG_DWORD is the buffer for character-mode named pipes writes. The default is 16 and the range is 0 - 65535. Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters] Data Type: REG_DWORD 17. Change the Default Printer Spool Directory, priority and other printing tips This applies for NT, 2000 and XP. If the system is acting as a print server, it is possible that the default location may have insuffcient disk space. - Create a new directory to act as the Printer spool directory. - Using Regedit open the key:- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers] - Change the value of 'DefaultSpoolDirectory" to equal the full path of the directory you created on other drive. - Reboot Windows NT, or stop and start the 'Spooler' service. The default directory is: %SystemRoot%\system32\spool\PRINTERS To change the spool directory for a specific printer only, find the sub-key under the key below that corresponds to the printer in question. Modify the value of 'SpoolDirectory' to equal the directory you want to use. Note: If the directory doesn't exist, Windows will use the default. or Click Start, click control panel, click printers, click file, click server properties, click the advanced tab, type the name of the new directory in the spool folder dialog box and click ok. Increase the priority of the spooler subsystem Prioritize the server for printing on a heavily used server or a server being used for multiple tasks. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print and add the following key SpoolerPriority with the REG_DWORD value of 0(Idle Priority), 9(Normal Priority) and 13(High Priority) in decimal. Other printing tips You can prioritize for printing speed, application response and efficient network printing.
Click start. click settings. click printers, right click the specific printer you wish to change, click properties, click the details tab, click spooler settings. -Optimize for quickest return to application Click spool print documents so program finishes printing faster, click start printing immediately, click ok. -Optimize for shortest printing time The application will be unavailable until all printing has been completed. Click print directly to the printer and click ok. -Optimize for efficient network printing This option is best used with applications that take a long time to spool each page. Click spool print documents so program finishes printing faster, click start printing after last page is spooled and click ok. 18. Disable Print Job Notification in Event Viewer By default Windows NT server adds an entry in the event log for every print job occuring on the spooler. This can quickly fill up the event log with redundent information. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Providers] To disable this function, change the DWORD value for EventLog to "0". 19. Create a Useful Name for My Computer This tweak will rename "My Computer" to "Username on Computername" making it simple to determine which computer you are logged on to and which username you are logged on as. Using REGEDT32.EXE (this is necessary for REG_EXPAND_SZ) open your registry and find the key below. [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}] Delete the existing value called "No Name" and add a new REG_EXPAND_SZ value with an empty value name and set the string to equal "%USERNAME% on %COMPUTERNAME%". Exit the registry editor, click on your desktop and press F5 (for refresh). The "My Computer" icon should now be rename to "Username on Computername". 20. Auto Logon to a Windows NT/2000 Machine If you're running Windows NT servers from a locked closet or server room, you can make them fully bootable. This means they won't require human intervention to carry out initial log-ins and run startup batch files. It allows you to automatically logon to the machine and network, bypassing the Winlogon dialog box. This tip also works with 2000. To enable this function you need to add several new values to the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] key. - Add a new value of 'DefaultUserName' and set the data to the username you wish to automatically logon as. - Add a new value of 'DefaultPassword' and set this to the password for the username above. - Add a new value of 'DefaultDomainName' and set this to the domain of the user. Ignore this value if the NT box is not participating in NT Domain security. This should be the local Windows NT Advanced Server domain on Advanced Server networks, or Machine Name on standalone Windows NT systems. - Add a new value of 'AutoAdminLogon' and set it to either '1' to enable auto logon or '0' to disable. - Exit and reboot, Windows should not ask for a password and automatically show the desktop of the user. Warning: The password is stored in registry, which means anyone who has access to the machine has access to the password and should not be used on secure systems. You can also do the above with TweakUI. 21. Automatically Close Non-Responding Applications Occasionally when Windows, NT, 2000 and XP shuts down, a task will return as 'Not Responding' and you are given the option to 'End Task'. This tweak automatically closes any non-responding applications. Open the registry and find the key below. This tip also works with all other Microsoft Os's. [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop] Modify the value of 'AutoEndTasks' to equal '1' to automatically end tasks or '0' to prompt for action. Also we will change the HungAppTimout - Right-click -> select New -> String Value -> call it "HungAppTimeout" (no quotes). Double-click on "HungAppTimeout" and give it a value of 1000 (default is 5000 milliseconds = 5 seconds). This value sets the manual timeout until a program is terminated by using System (Task) Manager. Next Right-click -> select New -> String Value -> call it "WaitToKillAppTimeout" (no quotes). Double-click on "WaitToKillAppTimeout" and give a value of 2000 (default is 20000 milliseconds = 20 seconds). This value sets the automatic timeout until Windows shuts down/restarts, while trying to close all open programs. For example, the setting may look like: AutoEndTasks "1" HungAppTimout "1000" WaitToKillAppTimeout "2000" 22. Delete Cached Copies of Roaming Profiles If this settings is enabled, when users with roaming profiles log off, the system will delete the cached copy of their roaming profile. This will help to save disk space where that are lots of roaming users. This tip also works for 2000. Registry Settings: Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
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