Author: William Penn
Date: 06:16:49 02/04/06
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On January 31, 2006 at 21:21:52, William Penn wrote: >On January 31, 2006 at 19:35:47, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>On January 31, 2006 at 16:40:18, Richard Sutherland wrote: >> >>>On January 31, 2006 at 12:32:21, Laurence Chen wrote: >>> >>>>From what I can see, it does not speed up Windows at all. It only allows you to >>>>change time delay of folders or mouse clicks to a shorter time length. Think >>>>like this, if you have a car with a 4 cylinder engine, you are you to tell me >>>>that you make your 4 cylinder engine perform faster than a ferrari engine >>>>without adding more cylinders or power to the engine. Yea! I would like to see >>>>this happen. Same thing with Windows speeding up. It is the processor which >>>>determines the speed of the PC. Unless you overclock it, you won't see it much >>>>faster. >>> >>> >>> >>>Of course, that site is not saying it would make your 4 cylinder go faster than >>>a ferrari, it's saying that if you oil the hinges, you'll be able to open the >>>doors faster. :) >> >>Agreed - no real impact on the engine - but the doors will be well greased -- >>good analogy. The chess elo impact will be zilch - but it might make winodws >>seem more responsive by cutting out all those delays and the quicker loading. >>An interesting read. > >I actually went through that link and tried all of the tweaks that apply to my >Windows XP Home computer on a dialup connection. Afterwards I only notice two >differences, for sure: My computer definitely shuts down much faster. And when I >delete something I no longer get the "do your really want to do it" nag anymore. >If there are other improvements they're too small to be noticable (so far). I >had hopes for the TCP/IP tweaker but can't tell any difference. > >Re the computer shutdown registry tweaks, I recommend not making those DWORD >data values less than 5000. He suggests 1000, but that might leave some software >update caches hanging, unwritten to the hard drive!? >WP I had computer problems afterwards. So I undid all of those speedup tweaks and restored my prior windows registry. IMHO they're not to be trusted. Any slight speed improvement is offset by the possibility that they might damage the complex windows op system. In particular I distrust the shutdown tweaks, which modify the registry to speedup shutdown of the computer. They can save 15-20 seconds or so, but at what cost? If your cached data from various software isn't written to disk at shutdown because there's not enough time, then you've done real damage. WP
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