[pr-man]

Just curious

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Celeron II 566@875 on a Abit BH6 Rev 1.01, 128 Pc100, Matrox G450 32 DH,
SBlive Value, Supra Express 56i ISA, Win98FE

[clutch]

More memory...



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Regards,

clutch

[CUViper]

THE CAPS-LOCK KEY!!!

[nagual]

i really like
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1

[Widow]

Here are some of the best tweaks that I have found for win2k...hope this helps...
Sorry but this is gonna be kinda long......

These are the only TCPIP Tweaks you need for Win2k, it is very good at
regulating it own network performance in most areas

Note these TCPIP reg tweaks are only for high speed connections do not use with 56k:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]
"TcpRecvSegmentSize"=dword:000005b0
"KeepAliveTime"=dword:0015f900
"BcastQueryTimeout"=dword:000002ee
"BcastNameQueryCount"=dword:00000001
"CacheTimeout"=dword:0000ea60
"Size/Small/Medium/Large"=dword:00000003
"LargeBufferSize"=dword:00001000
"SackOpts"=dword:00000001
"TcpWindowSize"=dword:0003ebc0
"Tcp1323Opts"=dword:00000003
"DefaultTTL"=dword:00000040
"EnablePMTUBHDetect"=dword:00000000
"EnablePMTUDiscovery"=dword:00000001
"GlobalMaxTcpWindowSize"=dword:0003ebc0

Also add this one manually to the registry...
Note: Your Individual Interface numbers may differ.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{2

8DCE469-81E3-4E4D-BE67-2453791F1939}]
"MTU"=dword:000005dc
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{2

96D28F3-BDAC-4382-9F7E-8088AF7CB75D}]
"MTU"=dword:000005dc
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{7

B97A161-9813-4D59-A068-0457917E5BAF}]
"MTU"=dword:000005dc


SOme Other tweaks I have gathered to help speed up the system Overall.

Turn Diskpref Off:

By default, Win2k is set to collect physical drive data.
As home users we don't need this.

To disable the disk performance counters:
Start
Programs
Command Prompt
diskperf -n
Also use the miscrosoft file exctrlst run it and shut down all
performance counters....I have included the file for you...

If you ever want to return to default:
diskperf -yd
Then after you turn that off use the file exctrlst.exe (you can get it
from the win2k resouce link)
Unzip the file and place it in your WINNT directory, use the run
command to activate it and then uncheck all the
performance counters so that they do not run. Just reboot and thats
it...


Make sure to shut down all unncessary services
here are a couple of links to help you out with that... http://www.3drage.com/guides/tweakwin2k/c.shtml


During Windows 2000 Setup, the following components are installed by
default:
Games
Accessories (Calculator, Clock, and so on)
Multimedia
Accessibility options

These items also do not appear in the Add/Remove Programs tool in
Control Panel after Setup is finished. This article describes how to cause
these items to be displayed during Setup or in the Add/Remove Programs
tool after Setup is finished.


MORE INFORMATION
NOTE: Microsoft does not support the editing or modifying of .inf files
included on the Windows 2000 CD-ROM or distribution server. This
information is provided only as a convenience and is not supported.

Displaying the Items After Setup Is Finished
In the %SystemRoot%\Inf folder on the system volume, use a text editor
(such as Notepad) to open the Sysoc.inf file.


Locate the "old base components" line.


For each component you want to appear in the Add/Remove Programs tool,
remove the comma and "Hide" comment. For example, change
Games=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,games.inf,HIDE,7
to:
Games=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,games.inf,,7

Also remove the "HIDE" option from the "AccessUtil=" line. If you leave
this option hidden, then none of the other components in the "old base
components" section are available in Add/Remove Programs.


Save and then close the file.


Click on Start, Run, type in regedit & hit Enter. Go to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OS/2 Subsystem for NT] & Delete all subkeys.
Now go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Environment] & Delete the Os2LibPath entry. Finally, go to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\SubSystems] & Delete the Optional, Os2 & Posix entries.


In Windows 9x, you had to download a copy of PS/2 rate to change the
sampling rate of your PS/2 mouse. However, in Windows 2000, they have
made the process much simpler by adding the property to the mouse's entry
in the device manager. To get to the feature, go into the device
manager, right click on the mouse entry, and enter its properties. Click on
the Advanced Settings tab and from there you can change two settings -
Sample Rate and Input Buffer Length. I would recommend setting the
Sample rate to 100 Hz (maximum setting - still inferior to PS/2 Rate but
better than nothing) and upping the buffer length to about 400 to avoid a
buffer overrun from the higher sampling speed.

This tweak really should have made it into the last revision of the
Win2k Hard Drive and Memory Tweak Guide, but I overlooked it in my notes
so I will share it with you now. By default, Windows 2000 logs the I/O
traffic of your hard drive. While this is a very useful setting for
servers, for workstations it doesn't do anything except use up system
resources. To disable it, go to the run menu and type diskperf -n to disable
the logging.


Reduce network delay.
When TCP/IP network activity is light, delays may be encountered with
the default request buffer size (4356 decimal).
The range of this parameter is 512 - 65536 bytes. Testing has shown
that, in most standard Ethernet environments, 14596 (decimal) is a better
choice, if the memory is available. Edit:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters

and Add Value name SizReqBuf as a type REG_DWORD.

Restart the computer.


Increase 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.


OS2 & POSIX Removal
This next tweak was seen in the Windows 2000 Tweak Guide, but we feel
that it may be relevant to today's article. Thomas McGuire of
3DSpotlight has sent me some further information on Windows 2000 security that
states Win2K file protection system will recreate system files after a
rename, thus rendering the below tweak of renaming the POSIX and OS2
files useless. The correct way to remove POSIX and OS2 support is via a
registry tweak. Look below for the instructions:

Click on Start, Run, type in regedit & hit Enter.

Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ OS/2 Subsystem for NT]
& Delete all subkeys.

Now go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\ Control\
Session Manager\Environment] & Delete the Os2LibPath entry.

Finally, go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\ Control\
Session Manager\SubSystems] & Delete the Optional, Os2 & Posix entries.

Enhancing Performance With Two Disks
OS | 03/22/2000 | CFP
As an example of how you can use the Registry to enhance performance on
a PC with two (or more) hard drives, this tip shows you how to move the
event logs from the boot drive to an alternate drive.

Normally, the Security, Application, and System event logs
(SECEVENT.EVT, APPEVENT.EVT, and SYSEVENT.EVT) live in the same folder with the
Registry hives, namely, C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG. However, you can change
these locations by modifying the location specified by the File value
in the following Registry keys:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Security

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\System

You have to reboot for the change to take effect. By moving the event
logs to a second physical hard drive, you lighten the load on the
overworked system disk and enjoy somewhat better performance. (Move the
pagefile to the second hard drive to gain even more speed.)

Turn off Indexing Service
OS | 03/24/2000 | CFP
Indexing Service creates indexes of the contents and properties of
documents on local and network drives. It's quite similar to "Find Fast"
that ships with Microsoft Office. Indexing Service runs continuously.
Turning this thing off might increase performance: My Computer -> Right
click on Drive icon -> Select Properties -> Remove the checkmark from
"Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching" ->
Click Apply. Make sure to select "Apply changes to <driveletter>:\,
subfolders and files." before clicking OK in the new window.

Spooler File Location
OS | 05/10/2000 | CFP
Move the location the printer spooler uses off the Windows NT system
drive.
Decrease the utilization of the Windows NT system drive.

Note: Make sure the drive you move the spooler to has sufficient disk
space to handle all printing requests of all clients on the network.

1. Click Start.
2. Click Control Panel.
3. Click Printers.
4. Click File.
5. Click Server Properties.
6. Click the Advanced Tab.
7. Type the name of the new directory in the spool folder dialog box.
8. Click ok

TURN OFF UNUSED SERVICES
OS | 05/10/2000 | CFP
You might be able to save a few MBs and a some CPU cycles
by setting all the services you don't really need to "manual".
Take a note of the default settings before altering anything,
and never disable a service - just set it to manual.
Check the event log for errors after reboot.

On my system these are set to manual:

Alerter
Application Management
ClipBook
DHCP Client
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Distributed Transaction Coordinator
Fax Service
Indexing Service
Internet Connection Sharing
IPSEC Policy Agent
Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service
Messenger
Net Logon
NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing
Network DDE
Network DDE DSDM
NT LM Security Support Provider
Performance Logs and Alerts
QoS RSVP
Remote Access Auto Connection Manager
Remote Access Connection Manager
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator
Remote Registry Service
Smart Card
Smart Card Helper
Task Scheduler
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Service
Telnet
Uninterruptible Power Supply
Utility Manager
Windows Installer
Windows Management Instrumentation Driver Extensions
Windows Time

Disable IDE Port Scanning on empty ports and save bootup time.
Go to System Properties by right-clicking on My Computer or via the
Control Panel.
Select the Hardware tab.
Look at the Device Manager section and click on the Device Manager
button.
This brings up the Device Manager screen.
Open up the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers device branch. Then you will see
a list of all the IDE controllers and channels in your system.
Now, select any one of the IDE channels, right click and choose
Properties. Or just double click on the IDE channel.
Now, select the Advanced Settings tab to get the screen below. As you
can see below, the second port (Device 1) on the Primary IDE Channel
does not any IDE device attached to it. Thus, the Device Type is labeled
as Auto Detection. In contrast, the first port has a device attached.
That's why the Device Type is grayed out.
To disable IDE device scanning for the second port, click on Auto
Detection and you will see two choices on the list. Select None.
Click OK and reboot. Windows 2000 will now refrain from scanning that
IDE port at start up and should load a little faster.

Network Card Tweak
Get the IRQ of your network card then proceed as follows:
Once you've found the IRQ of your Network Card, you need to reserve
some RAM for its use, by adding an entry to the System.ini file. You can
edit the file in any text editor, however the easiest way is to use
Windows' built in "System Configuration Editor".

Navigate to Start > Run and type sysedit . Find the [386enh] Section in
the System.ini file and add Irq[n]=4096 under it, where [n] is the IRQ
number of your NIC and 4096 is the amount of RAM you want to reserve in
Kbytes. We recommend using 4096, however you can experiment with
different values if you want. Save changes in the file, exit and reboot for
changes to take effect.

Note: If you choose to try different values, keep in mind that
reserving too much RAM for your NIC will decrease the amount of RAM available
for applications, while reserving too little might not give the desired
effect.

Example System.ini File:
[386enh]
woafont=dosapp.FON
EGA80WOA.FON=EGA80WOA.FON
EGA40WOA.FON=EGA40WOA.FON
CGA80WOA.FON=CGA80WOA.FON
CGA40WOA.FON=CGA40WOA.FON
LocalLoadHigh=1
Irq5=4096

Note: Change the irq number to whatever irq your nic card is on.

Email Tweak
Go into Outlook Express or Outlook and go Tools -> Accounts...
Click the mail tab and you should see your different mail accounts. I
have 4 of them. Select an account and then hit the properties button.
Inside Mail Properties hit the "Servers" tab and you should see your
incoming and outgoing mail names. Write them down or remember them. My mail
names are "mail".
Now we have to find the IP of your mail server. Just go to a dos prompt
and type in tracert and put your mail server behind it. For example my
mail server was "mail" so I typed in tracert mail. For examples sake,
if you mail servers name was penguin you would type in tracert penguin
and so on.
The last hop will be the ip of your mail server.
Back in Outlook or Outlook express go to your mail properties, as you
did in step 1. Just replace the incoming mail and outgoing mail names
with the IP of the mail server. Voila! Faster email. Remember to do this
for all of your mail accounts.

Note: This also works for your newsgroup server, for me I just substitued news for mail and found

the last hop then the ip address for my newsgroup server......

[tristan777]

the best tweak i've found is NVMax. if you haven't heard of it, it's a tweaking for Nvidia cards. it requires u to use the reference drivers, but these are usually the best anyway. i would highly suggest downloading it if you have an NVidia based card. it supports 9x and 2k.

also stop by the forum sometime. there's lots of helpful ppl there.

[This message has been edited by tristan777 (edited 19 December 2000).]

[Igor]

Hey, Widow, do you do anyhing else besides tweaking Windowz 2000?

[Widow]

Yeah, as a matter of fact I do, I tweak everything I can find....hehe....
In any case here are some more win2k tweaks to add to the list....happy tweaking.....
Special Thanks for DosFreak for the SP1 burning info.....

Turning off Dr Watson log Generation:
(Dr Watson takes friggin forever to generate an error log, something for which most of us never care to see anyway)
Use the windows run command and type drwtsn32 then turn off all options and clear the log...

Ever wanted to make explorer always open your directories the same way?, Well now you can. Example I prefer to have my directories always listed in detail view.
Open explorer and go to a directory set the view for the way that you always want it to be then use the following sequence to set explorer to always open your directories that way:
Explorer menu sequence:

Tools | Folder Options | View | Like Current Folder


Increase IE5 Browsing Speed:
This tweak allows more simultaneous connections from your browser.

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"MaxConnectionsPerServer"=dword:00000020
"MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"=dword:00000020

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"MaxConnectionsPerServer"=dword:00000020
"MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"=dword:00000020

Spooler File Location
OS | 05/10/2000 | CFP
Move the location the printer spooler uses off the Windows NT system drive.
Decrease the utilization of the Windows NT system drive.

Note: Make sure the drive you move the spooler to has sufficient disk space to handle all printing requests of all clients on the network.

1. Click Start.
2. Click Control Panel.
3. Click Printers.
4. Click File.
5. Click Server Properties.
6. Click the Advanced Tab.
7. Type the name of the new directory in the spool folder dialog box.
8. Click ok


Anyone familiar with a more modern package of Linux will probably know about TAB autocompletion. When you are working at the command prompt and are feeling too lazy to type in the whole file or directory you want, just start with a few identifying letters, press TAB and the OS automatically completes the entry for you. This is of course very useful in Linux where at some time or other you must use the command prompt.

This tip may be of lesser importance for Win2K but I'm sure there are those of you out there that still make use of the command prompt. To enable TAB autocompletion run Regedit and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor then alter the CompletionChar REG_DWORD from 0 to 9. Voila, open a command prompt and see just how easy it is to change to "Program Files" now.

To easily bring up a command window from the current Windows Explorer location, you can add a Command Prompt Here entry to your context menu. First, open your Registry editor and go to HKEY_CL***ES_ROOT\Folder\shell. Select Edit, New, Key, and enter CmdPrompt in the dialog box. Double-click (Default), and enter the name you want to display when you right-click the directory (e.g., Command Prompt Here). Then, select Edit, New, Key and enter a key under CmdPrompt named command (in lowercase). Double-click (Default), and enter the path to your cmd.exe program, followed by "%I" (e.g., C:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe /k cd "%I").


You can control whether Explorer will restore windows which were open when NT was shutdown. This automatic restoring of windows drives me nuts. It was a problem in OS/2, Windows NT, and now Windows 2000. You don't like it, fix it with the following Windows NT / Windows 2000 registry hack :
Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Name: NoSaveSettings
Type: REG_BINARY
Value: 1
This entry will prevent you from permanently repositioning desktop shortcuts and from adjusting the size and/or position of the Taskbar.


AutoRestartShell controls whether the user shell, usually NT Explorer, will be restarted if it crashes. I have seen quite a few occasions where the shell crashes and this Windows NT / Windows 2000 registry hack allows you to just keep on trucking. When the shell crashes, the taskbar and desktop icons disappear. If you don't have AutoRestartShell set, you have to use keyboard shortcuts to logoff/logon if you know them, or simply power to PC off/on. Not necessary. Avoids losing work.
Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Name: AutoRestartShell
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0 user must log on/off to regenerate crashed user shell
Value: 1 user shell to automatically restart

Quick edit mode allows one to use the mouse to select text, cut, copy and paste in command shell. This mode is not enabled by default. To control the mode, apply the following Windows NT / Windows 2000 registry hack.
Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Console
Name: QuickEdit
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1 enable quick edit
Value: 0 default - disable quick edit mode

By default, the Desktop, Taskbar, and Explorer run in a single process using multiple threads. To set NT so Taskbar and Desktop will run in one process with each instance of Explorer in a separate process, you can apply the following Windows NT / Windows 2000 Registry hack :
Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
Name: DesktopProcess
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1 separate process for Explorer
Value: 0 Explorer shares process with Desktop and Taskbar

Each new instance of Windows NT Explorer.exe will get its own thread.

Windows 2000's Explorer is particularly optimized for separate thread operation.


The system automatically creates hidden "administrative shares" for its logical drives C:, D:, and so forth which it names C$, D$ and so forth. It also creates the admin$ hidden share for to the \winnt folder. These shares are designed for remote access support by domain administrators. By default, if you delete these admin shares, they will be recreated when you reboot. To disable permanently so they will not be recreated on the next reboot, use the following Windows NT registry hack:
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer\Parameters
Name: AutoShareServer for servers
Name: AutoShareWks for workstations
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0


Make a Bootable Win2k SP1 CD:
1. Make a folder on your C: drive. Name it the same as that of your CDROM. Ex: W2PSEL_EN
2. Copy the Windows 2000 CD to the folder.
3. Download Service Pack 1 from here: <A HREF="http://download.microsoft.com/download/win2000platform/SP/SP1/NT5/EN-US/sp1network.exe" TARGET=_blank>http://download.microsoft.com/download/win2000platform/SP/SP1/NT5/EN-US/sp1network.exe[/ URL]

3. When download is done copy sp1network.exe to your C: drive.

4.

Do a Start/run/C:\sp1network.exe -X:C:\SP1
Click OK at the screen where it displays "C:\SP1"
When it's done extracting click OK.
Do a Start/Run/C:\SP1\i386\update\update.exe -s:C:\W2PSEL_EN
When it's done it will say "Integrated install has completed successfully". Click OK.
If it does not say this then you have done something wrong.


5. Download CDRWIN from www.goldenhawk.com.</A> Install C...neededfiles.zip

7. Place the appropriate files from neededfiles.zip into the root directory of W2PSEL_EN.

Place CDROM_NT.5 into the root of the CD.
Place:

CDROM_IP.5 - If you are doing 2000 PRO then place this into the root.
CDROM_IS.5 - If you are doing 2000 SERVER then place this into the root.
CDROM_IA.5 - If you are doing 2000 ADVANCED SERVER then place this into the root.

8. The root of the directory should now contain only these files:

Autorun.inf
cdrom_iX.5
cdrom_nt.5
cdrom_sp.tst
read1st.txt
readme.doc
setup.exe

9. Open CDRWIN and choose the File Backup and Tools option
10. In the BACKUP/TOOL Operation Choose the Build an ISO9660 Image File
11. in FILE BACKUP List click the DIRECTORY button and choose the directory where you copied the
Windows 2000 CD. Click OK. Then click the ADD button. You should see the directory in the big box now.
12. Check the INCLUDE HIDDEN FILES,LONG FILENAMES(JOLIET),INCLUDE SYSTEM FILES,RECURSE SUBDIRECTORIES. Uncheck PRESERVE FULL FILE NAMES.
boxes.
13. For IMAGE FILENAME click the three dots at the right and choose a directory and a filename. Then
click Save. You should see the pathname and the filename of your .ISO in the box.
14. Check the DISABLE VERSION NUMBERS box.
15. Click the ADVANCED OPTIONS button.
16. For Volume Label use the name of the original Windows 2000 CD. Ex: W2PSEL_EN
For Volume Set Name use the bame of the original Windows 2000 CD
Publisher Name: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
PREPARER NAME: MICROSOFT CORPORATION, ONE MICROSOFT WAY, REDMOND WA 98052, (206) 882-8080
17. Choose the BOOTABLE DISC tab.
18. Check the MAKE BOOTABLE DISC box.
19. For MEDIA EMULATION CHOOSE Custom
20. For Image File name use the boot.bin from the neededfiles.zip.
21. For DEVELOPER NAME use MICROSOFT CORPORATION
22. For Load Sector Count use the number 4.
23. Click OK and then START.
24. When it's done open up any CDR burning program that supports .ISO's to burn your IMAGE to CD.



[This message has been edited by Widow (edited 20 December 2000).]

[thomas@nordichardware.com]

AAAH!!! Thanx for the Dr. Watson thing. I just HAATE when something happens, and it takes 25 seconds to get windows workin' again.

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//Thomas

[gdug]

Don't you first have to disable ACPI to get the NIC irq memory tweak to work? W2K has 3 devices including the NIC on one irq on my box.

[LoW_beta]

Bump!

[pimpin_228]

Any way you think you can