rec.autos.simulators

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

Andre

"4. Disable Indexing Service
The Indexing Service in Windows XP indexes your files presumably to
shorten the time needed to search your hard drive if you are looking
for a specific file or part of a phrase inside a file. However, the
constant indexing of files actually slows down system performance.
Indexing searching performance benefits would only be noticeable on a
file server not a home PC.

Instructions - To disable the Indexing Service go into "My Computer",
right-click on all your hard drive partitions one at a time, left-click
"Properties". Uncheck "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for
fast file searching". Select "Apply changes to subfolders and files".
If any files can not be updated select "Ignore All"."

Thats only the case if GPL is installed on an ntfs drive (why i always kept
it on fat32)

My understanding -- which may be incorrect for all I know -- is that
_allowing_ indexing, and actually _running_ indexing, are two
separate things. You need to _allow_ indexing on the GPL folder, but
-- AFAIK -- you do not have to actually turn on the indexing itself.

In my case, I _only_ have the indexing turned on for the GPL folder
-- in case I'm wrong about that separation of the two index-related
functions. At worst, only my GPL folder is being indexed. Since it
rarely changes, any indexing isn't going to be a big consumer of CPU
cycles.

HTH,
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  Darryl

I have Indexing Service disabled, GPL and everything else works fine.

DonS

Good link, thanks.

I did disable some unneeded services back when I only had 512MB ram...
it saved me about 35-40MB of memory after WinXP boot.

BTW, have you tried XPlite? It's supposed to make WinXP a bit more...
well, lighter :)  I used 98lite some years ago, and it worked quite
nicely.
http://www.litepc.com/
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- Jussi Koukku -

Andre

Andre

I found the autoruns.exe quite useful though, I found I still had some
nvidia stuff in there even after the Radeon upgrade.

Cheers & thanks for the link, uwe

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I'm working my way through the recommended steps right now.  However, I
recall a post on RAS perhaps 2 years ago that referenced a procedure to
optimize your PC's BIOS settings for racing sims.

Does anyone else recall this or have a link to these BIOS tweaks?

Thanks!

Mitch
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SuSE 9.2 Pro.

Thanks again.

http://www.rojakpot.com/

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Don Burnette

"When you decide something is impossible to do, try to stay out of the
way of the man that's doing it."