Achim
> > The OS seemed to think that the system was idle while I was racing ..
> Well, if you're going that slow.......
> Beers and cheers
> (uncle) Goy
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David G Fisher
> BTW great run Brian!!!
> > Any links where I can find out what the various services do?
> > David G Fisher
David G Fisher
> at
> http://www.racesimcentral.net/
> you'll find a tweaker's guide telling you which services to disable.
> At the time when I was testing XP I followed similar recommendations from
> another source, and must say that for me, most of them didn't make a
> difference.
> However, there are a few that indeed should either be disabled or set up
> differently.
> For example the QoS reserves online bandwidth for the operating system,
> either even even if you disable it, or even if you set the bandwidth to be
> reserved to 0, I forget which of the two. To avoid that you have to either
> disable it or set the bandwidth reserved to 0, but unfortunately I don't
> remember which of the two options is the right one. You'll have to try or
> read up on the issue.
> You should also make sure your swapfile has a fixed size (512MB is a large
> enough value for most everything except huge audio or graphics
> manipulations).
> You should avoid XP calling home, like looking for updates for example.
> The system restore service is a candidate for disabling, as it may start
> trying to make backups while you're racing - under WinME this happened
often
> with GPL for me. The OS seemed to think that the system was idle while I
was
> racing :-)
> Achim
> > Any links where I can find out what the various services do?
> > David G Fisher
> > > Not necessarily 3rd party stuff, I'm talking about XP's own services.
Do
> > you
> > > know that several module of XP can call home as well in regular
> intervals,
> > > unless you tell them not to? And that XP limits your online bandwidth
by
> > > always reserving a huge chunk of it for itself?
> > > Achim
The system restore service and the pagefile are IMO something you should try
first and foremost.
Achim
> David G Fisher
> > Hi David,
> > at
> > http://www.racesimcentral.net/
> > you'll find a tweaker's guide telling you which services to disable.
> > At the time when I was testing XP I followed similar recommendations
from
> > another source, and must say that for me, most of them didn't make a
> > difference.
> > However, there are a few that indeed should either be disabled or set up
> > differently.
> > For example the QoS reserves online bandwidth for the operating system,
> > either even even if you disable it, or even if you set the bandwidth to
be
> > reserved to 0, I forget which of the two. To avoid that you have to
either
> > disable it or set the bandwidth reserved to 0, but unfortunately I don't
> > remember which of the two options is the right one. You'll have to try
or
> > read up on the issue.
> > You should also make sure your swapfile has a fixed size (512MB is a
large
> > enough value for most everything except huge audio or graphics
> > manipulations).
> > You should avoid XP calling home, like looking for updates for example.
> > The system restore service is a candidate for disabling, as it may start
> > trying to make backups while you're racing - under WinME this happened
> often
> > with GPL for me. The OS seemed to think that the system was idle while I
> was
> > racing :-)
> > Achim
> > > Any links where I can find out what the various services do?
> > > David G Fisher
> > > > Not necessarily 3rd party stuff, I'm talking about XP's own
services.
> Do
> > > you
> > > > know that several module of XP can call home as well in regular
> > intervals,
> > > > unless you tell them not to? And that XP limits your online
bandwidth
> by
> > > > always reserving a huge chunk of it for itself?
> > > > Achim
