thefixer opened this issue on Aug 14, 2007 · 25 posts
keenart posted Tue, 14 August 2007 at 7:41 AM
Gywn,
If you want to turn off all of the “fluff and stuff” you can go back to the Classic Style of Windows, and gain 10 to 20 % resources.
Go to the Control Panel,
Personalize, Window Color and Appearance,
In Color Scheme select Windows Classic,
Select the Effects Tab, and uncheck all three effects,
In the Desktop Background, select Solid Colors to get rid of the background pic.
Turn Off any effects in the screensaver to a blank window, less memory use.
Turn off the Effects for the Start Bar, also called the Task Bar and go to the classic style. Get rid of as much stuff on the Quick Launch, and StartUp Menu.
Turn Off Sounds, less memory use.
In Theme Select Windows Classic.
Shut off the Windows Firewall, Phising, and Windows Defender, and use your favorite Anti-Virus.
Shut off Indexing for your Drive.
Shut Off Sleep mode in the Power Options, this will save gigs of hard drive space without a Hibernation file. It also wills stop Rendering when it engages, so shut if off.
Shut Off Windows Update, and Manually get updates each month around the 12th as MS, puts out during the middle of the month.
Use the Windows Classic Folder Options.
Everytime you have a crash, Select the main drive and in Properties, use the Disk Cleanup to get rid of the Memory Dumps.
NVidia just released the new signed drivers 162.22 for the 7 and 8 series of cards for 32 and 64 bit. Get them they work better than older versions of drivers.
That ought to get you started.