Hardware

hmm ok ille try it, got a link?

Thermaltake Xaser II (Black)
Levicom 350W
Asus 7n8x (Sound, LAN onboard)
1GB Infineon PC333 RAM (Dualchannel)
ATI Radeon 9700
Cherry-Keyboard (Black)
Microsoft Intelly Eye Explorer gliding on an Everglide Attack Pad ( Precious Mouse on Precious Pad ;P)
Maxt0r 2B020H1 (20GB)
Western Digital WD800JB (80GB)
Plextor PX-W2848A (Front colored black)
ASUS 48x (Front colored black)
Samsung 957DF 19" ( mmh.. i need a black monitor ;P)
Elsa 56k-Modem intern ( for bad days and as a relict from my DSL-less ages )
Yamaha Speaker YST-MS25 (not much, but enough )

PC1 (main PC)

AMD 2600+
Gigabyte ga7va (KT400, not the best chipset)
512 DDR (400 running at 333 for stability)
TI4200
80GB HDD
1x120mm fan
1x80mm fan
Coolermaster x-dream variable speed copper cored HSF with 80mm fan
52x RE-writer
NEC 1100 DVD+R writer
19" monitor
MS natural internet keyboard
MS optical wheel mouse
Epson 830

PC2

AMD 2200+
Cheap asrock board
512 DDR (333)
FX5600 VIVO
120GB HDD
4x80MM fan
1Xexpansion slot fan
HP 4x CDRW (Temporary)
Raid controller
17" monitor
Basic keyboard
Basic mouse

PC3(ish)
chipped Xbox with linux installed

well since everyone is listing his reserve pc, ille list mine

some knd of motherboard
amd duron 1000+
512mb sdram pc133
6gig hdd
9gig hdd
sb creative (not live)
geforce2 mx32mb
normal 17" monitor
hp610
genius scanner (24dpi?)
crappy speakers/mouse/kboard
network card

a nearly pile of crap but very useful when my pc goes bunkers(and thats frequent).

solved that slowness prob, the virtual memory was tooo high

thanks to a friend my pc runs fast again now

min 768 max 1536

now its 256/256

heres something i have had for some time, hope it helps you like it did to me

Originally posted by freezedri from >>http://forum.suprnova.org/

Before I start going through the tips & tweaks I've picked up over time let me warn you that some of them involve modifying the registry. Always backup your registry before modifying it. You can do this by going to Run & typing Regedit. Now go to File -> Export and save it somewhere safe. If you ever want to go back 2 the way it was you can just double click the save file and it will add the original back.

The majority of these tips & tweaks were first posted on FTC by a few legends, the rest I discovered myself.

To increase system performance

Right click my computer. Click properties.
Click advanced.
Click settings (under performance).
Click Adjust for best performance.
Scroll to the bottom and check the last one ?use visual styles on windows and buttons?.

How to disable XP?s crap built in CD Burner

Click the start button.
Select Run.
Type services.msc and click ok.
Go to IMAPI CD-Burning Com Services open it and click on start up type, change to "Disabled".

These Settings will fine tune your systems memory

You need at least 256MB of ram to do this:

Go to start\run\regedit -and then to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

1.DisablePagingExecutive -double click it and in the decimal put a 1 - this allows XP to keep data in memory now instead of paging sections of ram to harddrive yeilds faster performance.

2.LargeSystemCache- double click it and change the decimal to 1 -this allows XP Kernal to Run in memory and improves system performance a lot.

3.Create a new dword and name it IOPageLockLimit - double click it and set the value in hex - 4000 if you have 128MB of ram or set it to 10000 if you have 256MB set it to 40000 if you have more than 512MB of ram -this tweak will speed up your disckcache.

Reboot

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Disable Swap file

For Users with 256 MB RAM or more this tweak will boost their Windows- and Game-Performance.
What it does: It tells Windows not to use any Swap File until there is really no more free RAM left.

Open the System Configuration Utility by typing msconfig.exe in the RUN command. There in your System.ini you have to add "ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1" under the 386enh section.

Restart your Windows and enjoy better Game performance

]Unable to delete from Avi files from HD

XP holds files in it's memory even after you have closed the application using them making it impossible to delete them from your harddrive. To fix this:

Start -> Run -> Regedit
Find the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler\ directory and delete the "DEFAULT" key.

Disable Services

XP Pro runs a lot of services by default that are pointless if your not on a corporate network, the following services are ones that I safely disable thereby freeing up memory but check what each one does first to make sure your not using it for something:

Go to Run and type services.msc, right click on each service, properties and choose disable.

Alerter
Application Layer Gateway Service,
Application Management
Automatic Updates
Background Intelligent Transfer
Clipbook
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Distributed Transaction Coordinater
Error Reporting Service
Fast User Switching Compatibility
IMAPI CD-Burning
Indexing Service
IPSEC Services
Messenger
Net Logon
Net Meeting
Remote Desktop Sharing
Network DDE
Network DDE DSDM
Portable Media Serial Number
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager
Remote Registry
Secondary Logon
Smartcard
SSDP Discovery Service
Telnet Themes
Uninterruptible Power Supply
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
Upload Manager
Webclient
Wireless Zero Configuration
WMI Performance Adaptor

Speed Up The File System

NTFS is a great file system, but its feature-set comes at a slight cost in performance. You can negate this a little with the following tips:

* By default NTFS will automatically update timestamps whenever a directory is traversed. This isn't a necessary feature, and it slows down large volumes. Disable it by going to Run and type regedit:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem and set 'DisableNTFSLastAccessUpdate' to 1.

* NTFS uses disparate master file control tables to store filesystem information about your drives. Over time these core MFT files grow and become fragmented, slowing down all accesses to the drive. By setting aside a little space, MFT's can grow without becoming fragmented.

In the same key where you disabled the last access feature creat a new DWORD value called 'NtfsMftZoneReservation' and set it to 2.

Disable DLL Caching

Windows Explorer caches DLLs (Dynamic-Link Libraries) in memory for a period of time after the application using them has been closed. This can be an inefficient use of memory.

1. Find the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer].

2. Create a new DWORD sub-key named 'AlwaysUnloadDLL' and set the default value to equal '1' to disable Windows caching the DLL in memory.

3. Restart Windows for the change to take effect.

Tweak The Prefetch

1. Run "Regedit"
2. Goto [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnablePrefetcher]

3. Set the value to either 0-Disable, 1-App launch prefetch, 2-Boot Prefetch, 3-Both ("3" is recommended).

4. Reboot.

It will decrease the boot time but double and increase the performance of your XP.

SpeedUp Your Connection By 20% (Cable Users Only)

1.Log on as "Administrator".
2. Run - gpedit.msc
3. Expand the "Local Computer Policy" branch.
4. Then expand the "Administrative Templates" branch.
5. Expand the "Network" branch.
6. Highlight the "QoS Packet Scheduler" in left pane.
7. In the right window pane double-click the "Limit Reservable Bandwidth" setting.
8. On the settings tab check the "Enabled" item.
9. Change "Bandwidth limit %" to read 0.
10. Then go to your Network connections Start=>Control Panel>Network & Internet connections>Network Connections and right-click on your connection. Then under the General or the Networking tab, (where it lists your protocols) make sure QoS packet scheduler is enabled.

well i found it real good, and no abnormal things happened so i tough its a good thing to post

anyone know if there is a large performance difference between 512mb of DDRram and 1gb of DDRram ????

programs open faster, if you dont have a massive vga card the ram compensates too

basically a huge difference from my side

especially when your board supports Dualchannel, then two 512MB-sticks are faster than a 1GB-stick...

Prozessor: Intel Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz HT
512 DDR RAM PC 3200
Monitor: dont know
Mouse: Logitech Mouse Man Dual Optical
Tastatur: Standard Tastatur
Graphiccard: Radeon 9800 XL
Soundcard onboard
DVD Burner
DVD
TV,Radio,Modemkarte (all in one )

whats that? Tastatur: Standard Tastatur

AMD ATHLON XP 2200+
768MB DDR PC3200
40GB IBM 6MB cache 7200rpm
120GB Maxtor 8MB cache 7200rpm
Zalman Socket A 100% copper cooling
7x Revoltec 6cm case fan w/4 red leds
12x48 DVD
8x4x32 CDRW
GF FX 5600 ultra OC'ed
Fan controller (4 fans) revoltec w/4 blue leds
ANTEC soho Server case w/window
ECS K7S5A mobo w/lan w/sound
Hercules Prophetview 920PRO DVI 17" TFT
Microsoft Internet keyboard
Logitech Wheelmouse optical
3 IDE cables with green glowstring
1 glow cable blue
1 Ultra Violet Laser LED (3 Leds)
400w Q-tec quiet PSU w/2fans
Windows XP Pro NL

AMD ATHLON 700
GiGaByte GA-71XE mobo with AMD 751/756 chipset
512 MB RAM PC133
13 + 4 GB HD (i got the small one from a mac...)
Creative SB128 PCI + Creative 4 point sourround...
ATI RADEON 9000 (64 DDR)
AverMedia TV Capture
Genius PCI 10/100 net card
DVD ROM
Energy System Ofice Evolution 1000 Optical Mouse (800 dpi)
a cheap keyboard
and a KDS 19" screen (hitachi technology...)

nothing impressive, but it works fine... even with my old W98SE (never reinstalled in the last three years... but a lot of time spent with the registry... :] )
... i mean... it doesnt crash too often...

Seems like the hardware-showoff place

PC1 (firewall/ftp)

HP Vectra VE5 P2 233 MHz
128 MB Ram
Maxtor 4 GB OS-disk
Maxtor 20 GB Filetransfer-disk
1* 24x cd-rom
floppy
2* 3Com 905 100 Mbit NIC
Red hat 9 with vsftp

PC2 (Workpc)

AMD Athlon XP 2400+
Asus A7N8X deluxe rev 1, using onboard surround sound and 100 Mbit NIC
2* Maxtor 80 GB liquid baring disks
1* Maxtor 20 GB WinXP disk
1* Maxtor 12 GB Gentoo disk
ATi Radeon 9600 Pro 128 MB
2* 512 MB PC-3200 RAM
3com 3c996 1000 Mbit NIC
1* NEC 1300A DVD-burner
1* Lite-on 48* cd-burner
floppy
Creative soundwork 2.1 speakers
Philips 19" CRT monitor
Microsoft natural split keyboard
Logitech MX700 mouse

PC3 (Wife's pc)

AMD Athlon 2000+
Asus A7N8X-X, using onboard 100 MBit NIC
2* 512 MB pc-2700 RAM
2* Maxtor 80 GB liquid bearing
ATi Radeon 8500 (275/275)128 MB
Creative sound audigy 2
1* Lite-on DVD player
1* Lite-on 40x cd-burner
floppy
Philips 17" CRT monitor
Creative soundwork 5.1 speakers
Microsoft natural split keyboard
Logitech MX-310 mouse

PC4 (fileserver)

AMD Athlon 2000+
Asus A7N8X deluxe rev 1.0 using onboard 100 Mbit NIC
2* 512 MB PC-3200 RAM
2* Adeptec ASC-39160 SCSI controller
10* Seagate 10K rpm 73 GB SCSI disks
Maxtor 40 GB liquid bearing Win2003 disk
1* 40x IDE cd-rom
1* NEC 1300A DVD-burner
floppy
3com 3c996 1000 Mbit NIC

A few remarks: The fact that I'm using 2.1 sound on a 5.1 nforce2-soundoutput is because my right ear is deaf, so I can't hear surround sound. That's why my wife is using my 5.1 surround set
For communication I'm using primary a 100 MBit switch, but between my work pc and the fileserver I'm using the 1000 MBit NIC's with a crossed cable for improved speed.
The firewall uses also diskspace on the fileserver, 200 GB to be exact, but the traffic for that is routed over the switch. For up & downloads on my ftp that is sufficient.
vsftp runs chrooted, so the ftp-users I create cannot move outside the public area's.

[edit] forgot the removable storage