How To: Streamline Windows XP

[Capper]

It's likely that your once fast and stable installation of Windows has become a fat lazy slob. Fortunately, by making a few user-level modifications and tweaks, the once lazy slob can be turned into a hard working triathlete.

http://hardwarelogic.com/news/136/AR...006-07-26.html

Today we share a guide written by Tyreal to help you get the most out of your Windows operating system.
As always, make sure you follow the directions closely, and if you don't feel comfortable making the changes recommended, come back here for help

[polobunny]

Is the list of optimized service took from BlackViper? Because it looks alot like the list he did, and if so it deserves proper credit. ;)

Edit: Oh there's something else I think that should be added which almost always give a significant speed up at boot but also when surfing other computers for shared files.
http://www.tweakxp.com/Article37934.aspx

Although this problem is a complex one, the solution is very simple. Instead of having to wait for the remote scheduled tasks, which is useless information to anyone who is not a system administrator remotely configuring scheduled tasks, you can disable this feature.

In order to do this, you will have to hack the System Registry and delete a reference to a key so that this feature will not be loaded. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Open up the Registry Editor by clicking the Start Menu and selecting Run. Then type regedit in the text box and click the OK button.
2. Once the Registry Editor has loaded, expand the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key.
3. Next, expand Software and then Microsoft.
4. Locate Windows and expand that as well.
5. You will want to be editing the main system files, so expand CurrentVersion.
6. Because this feature is a feature of the Windows component known as Explorer, expand the Explorer key.
7. Next, you will want to modify the remote computer settings, so expand the RemoteComputer key and then expand the NameSpace key to show all of the features that are enabled when you browse to a remote computer.
8. In the NameSpace folder you will find two entries. One is "{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}" which tells Explorer to show printers shared on the remote machine. The other, "{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}," tells Explorer to show remote scheduled tasks. This is the one that you should delete. This can be done by right-clicking the name of the key and selecting Delete.

Tip:
If you have no use for viewing remote shared printers and are really only interested in shared files, consider deleting the printers key, "{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}", as well. This will also boost your browsing speed.

[Tyreal]

No it is not from BlackViper.

[Capper]

There are several lists like that around the web.
As to Black viper....he had a phenominal webiste, then suddenly just disappeared, seemingly off the face of the earth.

[polobunny]

Fast User Switching Compatability
Will require you to reboot your machine to switch to another user

Or you can simply logoff. >__>

[Lead Head]

I did not like blackviper much at all. Every chance he got , he bashed AMD


nice artciel btw

[Capper]

Originally Posted by Lead Head

I did not like blackviper much at all. Every chance he got , he bashed AMD


nice artciel btw

well, everyone has an opinion.....remember there is just as many people out there bashing INTEL...probably a lot more as a matter of fact

[drew and not u]

rockin article!