little bit OT: optimizing XP

I found this guide, did the whole process last night, and not only does XP itself work a lot faster now, I also gained about 15fps in F1C after this procedure! So worth checking out if you! http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html Andre

If you follow the following advice GPL WON'T RUN, I believe (don't ask me why). I'd guess that most of the other advice is good though. "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"."

"Bob Simpson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> If you follow the following advice GPL WON'T RUN, I believe (don't ask > me why). I'd guess that most of the other advice is good though. > > "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)

Bob Simpson wrote in news:1105538779.641390.309260 @f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com: > If you follow the following advice GPL WON'T RUN, I believe (don't ask > me why). I'd guess that most of the other advice is good though. > > "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"." > 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, -- Darryl

"Bob Simpson" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]: > If you follow the following advice GPL WON'T RUN, I believe (don't ask > me why). I'd guess that most of the other advice is good though. > > "4. Disable Indexing Service I have Indexing Service disabled, GPL and everything else works fine. DonS

Don Scurlock wrote: > I have Indexing Service disabled, GPL and everything else works fine.Same here. That's one of the first things I did after installing XP.

On 12 Jan 2005 13:05:34 -0800, "Eric Tetz" <[email hidden]> wrote something like: >Don Scurlock wrote: >> I have Indexing Service disabled, GPL and everything else works fine. >Same here. That's one of the first things I did after installing XP. Yup, you can disable indexing service, and GPL will work, as long as the gpl directory has "allow indexing" attribute set. -- - Jussi Koukku -

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:53:47 +0100, Andre Warringa <[email hidden]> wrote something like: >I found this guide, did the whole process last night, and not only >does XP itself work a lot faster now, I also gained about 15fps in F1C >after this procedure! So worth checking out if you! > >http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html 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/ -- - Jussi Koukku -

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:11:04 GMT, Jussi Koukku wrote:

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> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:53:47 +0100, Andre Warringa ><[email hidden]> wrote something like: > >>I found this guide, did the whole process last night, and not only >>does XP itself work a lot faster now, I also gained about 15fps in F1C >>after this procedure! So worth checking out if you! >> >>http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html > > Good link, thanks.

Interesting, apart from the firefox rant. Websites should work in any browser. Just ignore those that don't or flame the "web designers" ;-) 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 -- GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:30:07 -0000, "Dan_Leach" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> >"Bob Simpson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:[email hidden]... >> If you follow the following advice GPL WON'T RUN, I believe (don't ask >> me why). I'd guess that most of the other advice is good though. >> >> "4. Disable Indexing Service >Thats only the case if GPL is installed on an ntfs drive (why i always kept >it on fat32)

Ah, I also have it on a fat32 drive, so that's why I didn't know about this indexing service / GPL problem. Thanks for the info Bob! Andre

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:11:04 GMT, Jussi Koukku <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:53:47 +0100, Andre Warringa ><[email hidden]> wrote something like: > >>I found this guide, did the whole process last night, and not only >>does XP itself work a lot faster now, I also gained about 15fps in F1C >>after this procedure! So worth checking out if you! >> >>http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html > >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/

Good link, thanks :) Andre

Andre Warringa wrote:

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> I found this guide, did the whole process last night, and not only > does XP itself work a lot faster now, I also gained about 15fps in F1C > after this procedure! So worth checking out if you! > > http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html > > Andre

Excellent Link. Thanks! 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!

BRH <BRH> wrote: > > Does anyone else recall this or have a link to these BIOS tweaks? > > Thanks! Maybe, http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm Mitch -- Remove "nospam." to reply. SuSE 9.2 Pro.

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> BRH <BRH> wrote: > > > >>Does anyone else recall this or have a link to these BIOS tweaks? >> >>Thanks! > > > Maybe, http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm > > Mitch

Thanks for the link. I only had time for a quick look this morning, but I think that this only tweaks XP. I was looking for a BIOS tweaking site. Thanks again.

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> Mitch_A wrote: >> BRH <BRH> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Does anyone else recall this or have a link to these BIOS tweaks? >>> >>> Thanks! >> >> >> Maybe, http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm >> >> Mitch > Thanks for the link. I only had time for a quick look this morning, > but I think that this only tweaks XP. I was looking for a BIOS > tweaking site. > Thanks again.

Here ya go. http://www.rojakpot.com/ -- Don Burnette "When you decide something is impossible to do, try to stay out of the way of the man that's doing it."