... of all kind ! Let's make this thread a tweak sharing center where we can offer or ask for windows/linux/games tweaks of any kind Remember, it doesn't have to be fancy or complicated, a simple but useful tweak is more than welcomed I'll start with something simple. On every single new Windows XP installation that I do (and I do lots of them, virtual and physical) I remove all the icons on the desktop. This includes the Recycle Bin which I think is completely useless. To do so, I simply install Tweak UI for XP. It takes about 5secs to install (right click on the ini, then install) and it can, among other things, remove the Recycle Bin without the need to reboot ! Okay it was a simple one but you guys and girls are free to share yours !
Start> All Programs Lag Fix Tired of waiting a second or two for your Programs list in your Start menu to pop up? Simple, Just run RegEdit ( Start>Run>"regedit"). Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop. Double-click on MenuShowDelay in the right hand panel, and change the value from 400 to 5. Reboot and enjoy! Or set it to 10000 to play pranks on your friends that don't click it /On Topic When I do fresh Installs I delete the Recycle Bin using Regedit. I don't mind the reboot(Sometimes I don't have to). I would rather reboot than install software. Tweak UI is a good program though.
BUMP ! okay this thread had only one reply but I still believe it's a good idea that could be very interesting if you guys got into it
recycle bin > properties> uncheck "display confirmation dialog on delete" works on xp, vista, and 7. i keep putty shortcuts to my fileserver and my school's server in my quicklaunch toolbar with the username and password already entered.
Well, I posted this in another thread some time ago, but I guess it might be useful if you're still using XP. Windows XP There were a series of tweaks that we applied to our older laptops at work. They're not 'extreme' tweaks, so don't break or disable anything. (I know 1&2 are the same, but it's how I've always done things.) General --------- 1. Disable the Indexing service on the hard drives a. Click on My Computer b. Right click on C: drive and select Properties c. Uncheck the Allow Indexing Service box and press Apply. Press Ignore for any protected Windows files the service can’t un-index. 2. Remove the 'Indexing Service' from the Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Add/Remove Windows Components 3. Check that the IDE drives are set to DMA mode and not PIO a. Right click on My Computer b. Select Properties c. Select the Hardware tab then click on Device Manager d. Expand the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers tree e. Select the Primary IDE channel f. Click on the advanced settings tab and set both Transfer Modes to DMA g. Repeat stage f for the Secondary IDE channel REGISTRY --------- Messing about in the registry can damage your operating system. If you are in any way unsure about editing the registry, then don't do it and skip to 6 --------- 4. Speed up network browsing by preventing windows checking for scheduled tasks on other networked computers a. Open up regedit b. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace c. Find a key named {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} d. Right click on it and delete it 5. Disable NTFS file timestamp a. Open up regedit b. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\FileSystem c. Create (or edit) a new DWORD entry called: NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate d. Set the DWORD value to 1 Finally --------- 6. Run Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter * If you don't mind losing the blue Luna theme, changing the desktop theme to Classic saves about 10mb memory. *. Change the XP theme a. Right click on the desktop b. Select Properties form the menu c. Under the Themes tab, select Windows Classic d. Click Apply
Tweaks for running a solid state drive with Windows Vista. A lot of these are tidied instructions from other places (I forget where,) that were gathered after getting an SSD for use as a primary drive with Vista x64. Tweaks for Running a Solid State Drive under Vista Disable -------- Auto Defrag, Indexing, Write Caching, Short File Names, NTFS Timestamp. Vista Automatic Defrag ----------------------- 1. Click Start 2. Click Control Panel 3. Select the Control Panel Home 4. Click System and Maintenance 5. Under the Administrative Tools section at the bottom, click Defragment your hard drive 6. Click or unclick Run automatically (recommended) depending if you want this feature enabled or disabled. 7. Click OK Remove Indexing ---------------- 1. Go to, Start (blue marble) > Computer 2. Right click on your drive and select 'properties' 2. Uncheck 'index this drive for faster searching' Disable Write Caching ---------------------- 1. From the Device Manager expand the disk drives category 2. Right click your drive. Select 'Properties' from the menu then click on the 'Policies' tab 3. Uncheck 'Enable write caching on the disk' Disable Short File Names ------------------------- The run command: fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 1 Note that the Windows XP environment variables %TEMP% and %TMP% typically use short names. Program installations sometimes use these variables If this change causes trouble and you need to restore the short name function, the command is; fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 0 Disable Timestamp for Last Access ---------------------------------- The run command: fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1 Note that some backup programs may need this information. If you wish to restore the timestamp, the command is; fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 0
