Tweaking Optimizing Windows.pdf - GEGeek

6. Highlight the QoS Packet Scheduler in left window
7. In right window double click the limit reservable bandwidth setting
8. On setting tab check the enabled item
9. Where it says Bandwidth limit % change it to read 0. Click apply, OK, exit gpedit.msc.
10. Go to your Network connections (start->my computer->my network connection-> view network connections).
Right click on your connection, choose properties then under the General or the Networking tab (where it lists
your protocols) make sure QoS packet scheduler is enabled.
11. Reboot , now you are all done.
35. Corporate Windows Update
Microsoft Corporate Windows Update is useful as you can select and download patches to your computer, so you can easily transfer
them to other XP computers etc.
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp?corporate=true
36. Navigate easier with built in toolbar (also applies to Windows ME)
This tweak makes use of the much under utilized/under appreciated/despised links folder within favorites.
- Right click on your bottom taskbar, select toolbars and choose links.
- Drag the links partition OFF the taskbar (hold mouse down over the toolbar and drag it off)
- This will create a menu/folder view of links. Right click on folder and choose to open folder. Get rid of all the existing
junk links in here. Create a new folder in here and put either valuable links or shortcuts to apps/software inside.
Add shortcuts to apps directly in the links folder. Close this folder when done.
- Drag the links menu/folder to either the top of the screen or to either side. This will dock the menu.
- Right click on your new docked toolbar and select view small icons, check always on top and auto-hide.
This creates a new navigation menu with dropdown menus that you can access by moving ur mouse to the left/right side of the
screen. Shortcuts to folders will launch that folder in a new window as opposed to displaying a drop down menu. You can create
new toolbars and dock them to the other side of windows however the drop down feature only works within the links folder.
37. Reset folder view
Sometimes XP forgets it's folder view settings. Here is the solution. Backup these RegKeys.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags]
After that delete them. Restart windows to take effect. Now you can change each folder and the setting will stay.
Also this tweak is more enhanced with XenTweak.
38. Remove shortcut arrows from icons
Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile in the registry. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.
Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile in the registry. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.
39. DMA mode on IDE devices
Just like 2000, XP still fails to set the DMA mode correctly for the IDE device designated as the slaves on the primary IDE and
secondary IDE channels. Most CD-ROMS are capable of supporting DMA mode, but the default in XP is still PIO. Setting it to DMA
won't make your CD-ROM faster, but it will consume less CPU cycles. Here's how:
- Open the Device Manager. Right click on "My Computer", select the Hardware tab, and Select Device Manager.
- Expand IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers and double-click on Primary IDE Channel
- Under Advanced Settings tab, check the Device 1 setting. More than likely, your current transfer mode is set to PIO.
- Set it to DMA if available.
Repeat the step for the Secondary IDE Channel if you have devices attached to it. Reboot.
40. Decrease shutdown with NVIDIA drivers
Shut Down can take up to 20 sec. with nvidia drivers. To reduce this delay:
Go start/excute type msconfig. Go to services tab. Uncheck Nvidia Driver Helper and reboot or
In config panel, administrator tools/services, look for Nvidia driver helper. Right click on it, select properties, select disabled.
Reboot. Dont Know what the purpose of the driver helper, but no side effect so far !
41. Install XP from Dos
Boot with a Windows 98/ME Start Up disk.
Insert the Windows 98 CD into the CD reader
Run smartdrv.exe from the Win98 directory on the windows 98 CD (file caching)
Type cd.. to back up to the root directory
Insert Windows XP CD into the CD reader
Copy the i386 folder to C:\
Go into C:\i386 folder on C: and type winnt32.exe to launch the setup from the hard drive.
42. Shutdown command in XP
Command is shutdown -s -f -t 5
43. Change DVD regions as many times as you want !
This also applies to Windows 2000. When you clean install 2000/XP you can only change regions a couple of times but not any
more !
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft]