Tweaking Performance in Windows 2000 pro

[pr-man 1]

Ok guys I have used the search fuction but did not seem to find all i needed and maybe you can help. I have a K6-2 450 system with 128 megs of ram and an 8.4 gig western digital UDMA-33 harddrive. I dont have extra money available right now for more ram so I need to know what are the most effective tweaks and performance enhancements that you know of that I can use to improve memory usage and performance. Thx alot guys.

[GrannyPantyRaider 0]

Well start by making a fixed swap file a little under twice the size of your ram. Defrag often. If your drive is not being reported as a DMA device then run to your motherboard manufacturer and get those IDE drivers.

 

 

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Originally posted by pr-man:

Ok guys I have used the search fuction but did not seem to find all i needed and maybe you can help. I have a K6-2 450 system with 128 megs of ram and an 8.4 gig western digital UDMA-33 harddrive. I dont have extra money available right now for more ram so I need to know what are the most effective tweaks and performance enhancements that you know of that I can use to improve memory usage and performance. Thx alot guys.

[badboy 0]

Hey pr-man my AVG virus scanner (free version) doesn't work but my system sings perhaps you won't to remove it from yours they can slow your system down working in the background !!!!

 

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Windows 2000 Pro 2195

Supermicro P6DGE

Dual Pentium PIII 550's

256mb ram

2x20 gb Hard drives

Soundblaster Live

Diamond TNT2 Ultra / Nvidia 3.81 Drivers

[DosFreak 2]

Also the Indexing Service is automatically installed whenever you install Pro (unless you specify otherwise). Remove the Indexing Service

[spacey 0]

How would one go about this? and what does the indexing thing do anyway? Will I miss it?

[Reidyn 0]

You don't know what it is, so you probably don't need it. Go to Control Panel, Admin Tools, Services ... Then find the Indexing Service, view the properties, and set it to manual startup. It shouldn't start anymore. There are probably 5 other ways to do the same thing, but that's the one I thought of first.

[DosFreak 2]

Also Disable the Remote Registry service too.

[pr-man 1]

ok well i turned off the remote registry services, indexing was already set to manual. anything else?

[pr-man 1]

now where do I set up the permanent swap file? Is that the same as page file? I saw that my page file is set to 192 megs

[Andy_25 0]

That was a great tip, that "disable remote registry services"! It instantly reduced the amount of RAM used, by quite a bit. Any other suggestions, as to what services are seldomly used by users? There's something called "Remote Procedure call (RPC)" that is always started on my computer. Can I disable that too, or is it necessary to run Windows? There must be other services that can be safely disabled (or set to manual). You know, ones that are never used by an average user.

 

By the way, what's the difference between disabling and setting to manual? Can I disable both the Indexing and remote registry?

 

Thanks,

 

Andy

[SHS 0]

Safe to set to Manual

Indexing Service

Remote Registry Service

Messenger

Task Scheduler

 

Do not turn off any Services that bepend on other services, DBL click on that services & look under the tab Dependencies.

Be sure to empty the Event Viewer on each reboot.

Here how rigth click on "Application Log" |

"Clear all Viewer" then hit NO do the same with "System Log" to

[spacey 0]

Cool those are handy tips, that messenger thing takes 5mb of ram and the task manager another 1.7 for me.. nice

[Reidyn 0]

PR Man:

 

Set the swap file to a permanent fixed size by going to Control Panel / System, then the Advanced tab, then click the Performance Options button. Under Virtual Memory, click the Change... button. If you have only one hard drive, select it. In the two text input fields (Initial Size and Maximum Size) put a number that is EXACTLY the same.

 

The size of this number is up for debate, depending on your theory of memory management and your particular needs. The more memory you have, the less you can get away with if hard drive space is limited. The old rule was 2.5 times your physical RAM, but some say to set it at physical RAM plus 20MB so you can get a complete memory dump if your system crashes.... Then click OK, OK, OK, and reboot.

[Reidyn 0]

PR Man:

 

Set the swap file to a permanent fixed size by going to Control Panel / System, then the Advanced tab, then click the Performance Options button. Under Virtual Memory, click the Change... button. If you have only one hard drive, select it. In the two text input fields (Initial Size and Maximum Size) put a number that is EXACTLY the same.

 

The size of this number is up for debate, depending on your theory of memory management and your particular needs. The more memory you have, the less you can get away with if hard drive space is limited. The old rule was 2.5 times your physical RAM, but some say to set it at physical RAM plus 20MB so you can get a complete memory dump if your system crashes.... Then click OK, OK, OK, and reboot.

[DosFreak 2]

If you set it to Manual then if a program needs it it can always turn it on. If you set it to disabled then it can't turn it on. I stressed the disable for Remote Registry Services for security reasons.

[spacey 0]

How does it help performance by setting the virtual memory to a fixed amount? I'm just wondering, because I remember I tried that in Win98 and it didn't really do anything.

[Andy_25 0]

At least it should stop the swap file from getting fragmented. And by setting the page file to a fixed amount, your HD access could be lessened because the OS doesn't have to increase and/or decrease the size constantly. But if you have enough memory so that the swap file is hardly ever used anyway, I would imagine that it doesn't make that much of a difference. Not that I've noticed anyway. (maybe I'm wrong. This is how I've understood it )

 

Andy