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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Wes14 on September 19, 2007, 09:19:41 PM
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i was carefully fooling around in my computer's Registry yesterday. Am i wrong or does it look like you could gain some overall performance by fooling around in there? And how(if possible) can you pick up some performance editing Registry alone? :confused:
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u can gain performance by editing the registry but on the other hand u could screw up ur pc if u do it wrong.
i found an article a couple of years ago that gave u an extra 10% speed increase on ur net connection. from what i read windows reserve's 10% of ur net speed for its own use. this article told u how to disable this function. now i didn’t do it straight away but read it through a few times and did a bit of digging on Google to make sure it was legit. i found other references to the same thing so i gave it a go. it was pretty simple to do with less than 10 steps to do it so i thought "if it goes wrong it will be easy to undo it".
after restarting my pc and done a speed test i found me net speed was nearly dead. i read the article again and checked the registry to make sure i hadn’t made a mistake and i hadnt. after a bit more messing about i thought sod it i carnt be ars**d. i put the settings back to how they were and restarted me pc.
done the speed test again but my conn was still crap. pissed about for a few weeks and nothing would get my speed back to nornal. i got a mate who is a network eng and he couldn’t sort it. end of the day i had to reinstall windows to sort it.
moral of the story!!!!
Leave the registry alone unless u have a program that u trust to do it for u.
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Registry Mechanic, XP tools, are just 2 current examples of fairly good registry editing programs.
Yes you can clean your machine up so nothing starts but the bare essentials.
Yes you can hose your machine with a single line that will force you to reinstall windows to get it back.
BE CAREFULL!
If your doing it manually or with regedit, do ONE change at a time.
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While registry editing can give small benefits, it's a really risky business.
If you want to try it out, you can download the trial of tweak manager (google it) it has some typical tweaks I like to do.
One very cool tweak is windows folder response time i.e. how long it takes for your start menu etc. folders to open when you hover the mouse over it. The default delay is 400ms, I like to set it to zero. That way the folders open instantly when I point the mouse on it.
WARNING! [/COLOR] Editing registry _IS_ risky and if you make a mistake you can render your computer useless. Experiment at your own risk.
However if you follow instructions to the letter or use a manager, you can get benefits.
For anyone who would like to try it out, open regedit -> browse HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop and search the value "MenuShowDelay" yours will be "400" and you can tweak it any value you like - just do not increase the time or your browsing _will_ get mega sluggish. I set the value always to 0.
The change will take place after reboot and you can enjoy megaresponsive folders. :)
Another nice one is increasing the session number on internet browser connections. You can considerably speed up your browsing experience by increasing the value from 2 to 10.
Third tweak is enabling http pipelining and disabling ipv6 support in Firefox. Makes for much snappier FF.
Fourth tweak you can do straight in network connections / tcp/ip. Disable QoS. It's not needed for normal use and it takes a few percent overhead from your connection.
The list goes on, you can tweak startup screens, IE backgrounds etc etc.
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Thanks for the tips :) ,ive mainly been looking around in registry. olny changed a "throttle" setting :confused: