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The two relevant keys are SFCDisable and SfcQuota. The size of the dllcache can also be manipulated at the command prompt. To disable (or create) the SFCDisable to REG_DWORD 'ffffff9d'. (It should be currently set to '0') Reboot. indows will not clean up the files, so if you want to trash them, you can, but leave the folder. Check your event log and see that Windows has truly disabled it. Other reports on the 'net indicate that a value of '1' will disable WFP, but this seems to reset after another reboot. To manage the size of dllcache you have two options 1) the registry, and 2) the easier command prompt option. In the registry, set SfcQuota to the hexadecimal value that's equivalent to the number of MB you'd like for the dllcache to take up. If you don't know hex, here's some samples: 00000099 = 153 (MB). 0000004b = 75 (MB). 00000032 = 50 (MB). 0000000a = 10 (MB). FFFFFFFF = Unlimited (default setting now) When you're done, run sfc /snannow for good measure, and reboot. Using the sfc command, it gets much easier. At the command prompt, type: sfc /cachesize=X where X is measured in MB. For instance, X=50 sets the cache to 50MB. When done, run sfc /snannow for good measure, and reboot. How to relocate the dllcache You will need to create a registry key in this location. Use regedt32 for this operation: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Create a value of SFPGDllCacheDir, with data type REG_SZ_EXPAND. The string is the path where you want the folder to live. It will append the folder to that location. Some examples: %systemroot%\system32 (the default) \\PhatServer\sneakypoo$\admin (the admin folder in the hidden share sneakypoo, on the server PhatServer) 5. Drive Data By default, Win2k is set to collect physical drive data. Home users we don't need this. To disable the disk performance counters: Start, Programs, Command Prompt, 'diskperf -n', reboot And if you ever want to return to defaults - type 'diskperf -yd' in command prompt 6. VCache Win2K handles its system cache (known as Vcache in Win9x) very differently depending on which version you have. Server and above have this setting enabled, and they see a substantial disk I/O increase because of it. It is more effective than you would think because programs with native support for Win2k are supposed to already be programmed so that they can be run directly from the cache. I personally don't recommend enabling this value unless you have at least 256 MB of RAM. To enable the setting here are the registry keys:- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\MemoryManagement "LargeSystemCache"=dword:00000001 To disable it: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\MemoryManagement "LargeSystemCache"=dword:00000000 7. Relocating the pagefile.sys You can set this in the performance tab but I have had no luck at all so try this. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\MemoryManagement Scroll to pagefile.sys and you'll see the letter for your pagefile.sys just highlight letter and select a new drive letter. 8. Install Recovery Console Very useful for troubleshooting. Go to where your 2000 cab files are and type '\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons'. Where 'd:\' is cd drive or hard drive. Commands available when Recovery Console is installed :- LISTSVC List services ENABLE/DISALBE Enable/disable service DISKPART Equivalent of FDISK FIXBOOT Create a new boot sector on the system partition FIXMBR FDISK /MBR equivalent (problems with RAID etc) LOGON List installation of Windows 2000 and can choose which to work on SYSTEMROOT Move to the system root MAP Display a list of drives and ARC paths. Useful to fix boot.ini probs. 9. Cable Modem & xDSL Speed Tweak To increase your broadband Cable Modem speed tip visit www.speedguide.net Also visit www.x9000.net and download XenTweak They have some excellent registry and inf files to download specially for cable access. 10. Speed up modem data Speed up buffering of data between your modem and your modem port. This enables your modem to retrieve information faster. Right click my Computer, Click Properties, Click Hardware, Click Device Manager, Double Click Ports, Double Click the appropriate Com port, Click Port Settings, Click Bits per second and change it to the highest supported speed, Click Flow Control and change it to Hardware, Click OK. Click OK. OK.
11. Adaptive Menus Microsoft Office 2000 introduced personalized menus (a.k.a. adaptive menus) that remembers which items you use regularly and hides items you don't. This tweaks allows you to enable or disable this functionality. Exit all open Office 2000 applications, including Word, Excel, Access and Outlook. Then open your registry and find the key below, if it does not exist create it. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\Toolbars] Create a new DWORD value named 'AdaptiveMenus' and set the value to '0' for disabled and '1' for enabled. 12. Control Smart Menus Switch them off ! Windows 2000 included a new feature called 'Personalized Menus', which remembers which items you use regularly and hides items you don't. This tweaks allows you to enable or disable this functionality. Open your registry and find the key mentioned below. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] Create a new string value, or modify the the existing value, named 'IntelliMenus'. Modify the value to equal 'YES' to enable smart menus or 'NO' to disable them. By using the same key except under the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE] tree the tweak can be enforced system wide, instead of only user based. Restart your machine. 13. 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}] Rename the value named "LocalizedString" to "LocalizedString.old". Create a new REG_EXPAND_SZ value named "LocalizedString", and copy the contents of the original value to the new value except change the words "My Computer" to equal "%USERNAME% on %COMPUTERNAME%". For example, the new "LocalizedString" value may equal "@C:\WINNT\system32\shell32.dll,- 9216@1033,%USERNAME% on %COMPUTERNAME%". 14. Hide or Display Administrative Tools Menu As with Windows NT, Windows 2000 has an 'Administrative Tools' folder on the Start Menu. This folder contains powerful administration utilities and therefore can be hidden to avoid accidental use. Open your registry and find the key mentioned below. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] For example, the setting may look like: (Default) (value not set) StartMenuAdminTools YES Create a new string value, or modify the the existing value, named 'StartMenuAdminTools'. Modify the value to equal 'YES' to show the administrative tools folder or 'NO' to hide it. By using the same key except under the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE] tree the tweak can be enforced system wide, instead of only user based. Exit your registry and log off for the changes to take effect. Note: Hiding the folder does not stop the use of the tools, it only make it more difficult to locate them. 15. Show Favorites on the Start Menu This setting controls whether the Favorites folder is shown on the Start Menu. Open your registry and find the key mentioned below. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] Create a new DWORD value, or modify the the existing value, named 'StartMenuFavorites'. Modify the value to equal '1' to enable Favorites or '0' to disable them. For example, the setting may look like: (Default) (value not set) StartMenuFavorites 0x00000001 (1) By using the same key except under the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE] tree the tweak can be enforced system wide, instead of only user based. Log off for the changes to take effect. 16. Group Policy Editor in 2000/XP Various settings can be altered by accessing administrator setup. At the Start\Run prompt type "gpedit.msc". This will open a management console which gives access to various administrator settings. 17. Hidden Devices In Device Manager, there is an option to show hidden settings: from the menu go to View/Show Hidden Devices. I had a couple of items here that were not installed correctly. 18. Disable Last Access Time To prevent ntfs from updating the last access time of each directory, open the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem Add a new DWord Value and name it NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate: set the value to 1 to disable this feature. 19. Speed up and browse faster Here's a great tip (a bug actually) to speed up your browsing of 2000 machines. Its actually a fix to a bug that by default of a normal Windows 2000 setup that scans for shared files for Scheduled Tasks. And its turns out that you can experience a delay as
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