Comments on: Best guide for Windows performance optimization

By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:09:05 +0000

@Albert

That one is really one of the more specific and tricky parts. I usually don’t mess with that one, even if system fits suggested usage.

By: Albert

Albert — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:17:57 +0000

I can verify that at Kernel Paging and Cache Tuning mentioned at kaditcha.cx did not work for me, in fact it reduced performance.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:14:26 +0000

@Nihar

Just read explanations carefully. Some tweaks that are beneficial for desktop can ruin performance or battery life on notebook.

And by the way focus of performance optimization is mostly making apps consume more memory. Windows is too happy to dump stuff on hard drive – extremely slow media comparing to RAM. The more is going on in memory instead of HDD – the faster things will work.

By: Nihar

Nihar — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:09:14 +0000

Thanks for sharing this website. I always like my Laptop be fast and responsive and also don’t like some apps consuming unnecessary memory.

By: Donace

Donace — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:29:42 +0000

Thanks for the heads up; I thought I had resolved that by now :p.

Fixed now none the less

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:11:25 +0000

@Madmouse

Yeah, running on virtual machine is not too bad with modern hardware. However effect of tweaks while OS is virtualized will be questionable.

It’s usually opposite for me (Ubuntu in VM on Windows) so can’t say for certain.

By: Madmouse Blog

Madmouse Blog — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:22:21 +0000

I use to tweak my systems a lot, but these days I spend more time trying to use my computer than working on it.

I do see that there are some pretty good tweaks on the site that you provided the link for. I will probably try a couple when I get my Linux box going completely.
I am going to run Ubuntu on my most powerful system and then run VMware, so I can run Windows on the Ubuntu box. So, the tweaks will help the Windows operating systems to run a little faster.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:14:41 +0000

@Donace

I hadn’t tweaked in a while actually. Old and very stable (except few broken things :) ) desktop.

Went to check your article but getting error at your blog, mailed you details.

By: Donace

Donace — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:10:04 +0000

I love tweaking XP; use to spend ages perfecting it to my needs;

I actually published a week or so ago a list of registry tweaks I use.