Ever Try? - Page 3

THE_MASK · 06-09-07, 06:22 AM

For XP users .
Make the paging file size min = 1.5x max=3x
Go to RUN and type in MSCONFIG and go to startup . Google to find out what the services are . Untick what you dont need .
Click on start/ control panel/system/advanced/performance settings/untick all the boxs except for the bottom two then press ok.
Download and clean harddrive with this
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
Use the xp disk cleanup .
Defrag the harddrive .

Major Johnson · 06-09-07, 09:49 AM

To all those asking about whether or not stopping the explorer.exe process affects your firewall or makes your system more suspectable to hacker attacks, the answer is no. Explorer.exe is the just GUI (graphical user interface) for the Windows operating system. Meaning, it's the process that displays the objects you can see and click on. Hope this explanation makes sense and helps.

Fish40 · 06-09-07, 03:36 PM

Take a look at this site: www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicefg.htm. Everything you wanted to know about your OS, as well as the services running in the background. The info here is what was used in FS AutoStart with regards to services descriptions. Also has guide on how to configure your system to different applications (such as gameing), and which services should be shut for max performance. Great site!

minsc_tdp · 06-09-07, 04:09 PM

I'm following this thread and I think this topic is getting too much attention.

Explorer does very little when it's not focused and being used. If you really want to speed up your system, whatever tweaks will have the most effect will be specific to your system and the stuff you have installed. Sure, removing stuff from startup helps but it's such a small part of the overall puzzle.

I'd highly suggest you download AMD CodeAnalyst (for AMD processors) or Intel VTune for Intel processors. These are professional tuning applications that can precisely measure the amount of resources consumed at an EXE level and a DLL level, and even deeper than that (it can sometimes tell you which function within a DLL is responsible for using the most cycles.) If you're serious about cleaning up, that's a great way to find out what's using most of the time on your system. Unfortunately VTune isn't free, but CodeAnalyst is (hell it might even work on Intel.)

As I mentioned before, FileMon from SysInternals is a great way to measure real-time filesystem accesses and find out what's pounding your hard disk. Given that the disk is the slowest common denominator, most improvement comes from stopping anything from unnecessary disk access. Search Indexers are the worst, such as Google Desktop Search, X1, Yahoo Desktop Search, and the downloadable Windows Desktop Search.

Another seldom analyzed part of the system that is often filled with trash is the Non Plug and Play section of Device Manager. This gradually fills up with junk over time especially if you install a lot of games. SecuROM and other hidden device drivers lie here and are very, very hard to notice. They can access all kinds of resources and not show up in the Task Manager, only the PerfMon utility can show any activity there and only if you know how to use it. I tried Norton for a while and fully uninstalled it, yet there was a driver still in there that was terribly killing a particular game that did many file accesses, because it was intercepting each one, and only CodeAnalyst told me that it was responsible.

Rhodes · 06-10-07, 05:55 AM

Tried last night, very good indeed. The game do not suffered the same slowdown's that use to have.

McBeck · 06-11-07, 03:28 AM

Nice thread...

AVGWarhawk · 06-11-07, 07:51 AM

I used the FSauto stop program offered up a few post back. It is a nice little program. I actually gained about 2 more FPS and the game seems to run just a bit smoother. May not sound like a lot of gain but for 1/2 hour of installing the program and setting it up, it was worth it. 2 more FPS can be the difference between this game sucks to WOW, this is very nice now.

Fish40 · 06-11-07, 12:00 PM

Glad you're enjoying it AVG.

I've been useing this little utility for quite some time now. I know its helped me a bunch!

AVGWarhawk · 06-11-07, 12:04 PM

It took me a minute or two to figure it out but then I read the directs

. It is quick about shutting down my programs and fires them up quickly when I done playing. Nice little utility.

MONOLITH · 06-11-07, 12:12 PM

I use "End it All".

Automatically goes through all running processes and shuts down everything unnecesary. Before I run it there might be 24 or more processes running in the background. End it all gets it down to 4 or so. And I don't need to worry about "what's that one?" and "what's this one?"; it knows.

http://www.docsdownloads.com/Tier1/enditall.htm

If you try it, just make sure you follow the instructions, and click the Double XX to end programs, not the skulls icon. You'll see them.

I've used it for awhile and never had a single problem with it, or from anything it shuts down.

THE_MASK · 06-11-07, 06:13 PM

or the inevitable , you need to upgrade hardware items .

06-09-07, 09:49 AM	#32
Major Johnson Frogman Join Date: May 2007 Location: Jeresey Shore USA Posts: 288 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	To all those asking about whether or not stopping the explorer.exe process affects your firewall or makes your system more suspectable to hacker attacks, the answer is no. Explorer.exe is the just GUI (graphical user interface) for the Windows operating system. Meaning, it's the process that displays the objects you can see and click on. Hope this explanation makes sense and helps. __________________ MJ! ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 AMD FX8350 8 Core 4.0 Ghz CPU GeForce GTX 560 Ti PCIx Video Card 8 GB Corsair Vengence RAM Rosewill 850W Power Supply

06-09-07, 04:09 PM	#34
minsc_tdp XO Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 411 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	I'm following this thread and I think this topic is getting too much attention. Explorer does very little when it's not focused and being used. If you really want to speed up your system, whatever tweaks will have the most effect will be specific to your system and the stuff you have installed. Sure, removing stuff from startup helps but it's such a small part of the overall puzzle. I'd highly suggest you download AMD CodeAnalyst (for AMD processors) or Intel VTune for Intel processors. These are professional tuning applications that can precisely measure the amount of resources consumed at an EXE level and a DLL level, and even deeper than that (it can sometimes tell you which function within a DLL is responsible for using the most cycles.) If you're serious about cleaning up, that's a great way to find out what's using most of the time on your system. Unfortunately VTune isn't free, but CodeAnalyst is (hell it might even work on Intel.) As I mentioned before, FileMon from SysInternals is a great way to measure real-time filesystem accesses and find out what's pounding your hard disk. Given that the disk is the slowest common denominator, most improvement comes from stopping anything from unnecessary disk access. Search Indexers are the worst, such as Google Desktop Search, X1, Yahoo Desktop Search, and the downloadable Windows Desktop Search. Another seldom analyzed part of the system that is often filled with trash is the Non Plug and Play section of Device Manager. This gradually fills up with junk over time especially if you install a lot of games. SecuROM and other hidden device drivers lie here and are very, very hard to notice. They can access all kinds of resources and not show up in the Task Manager, only the PerfMon utility can show any activity there and only if you know how to use it. I tried Norton for a while and fully uninstalled it, yet there was a driver still in there that was terribly killing a particular game that did many file accesses, because it was intercepting each one, and only CodeAnalyst told me that it was responsible. __________________ June 29 2016 - shSpeech v2.55 - Voice Command for Silent Hunter 4! View Thread

06-10-07, 05:55 AM	#35
Rhodes Silent Hunter Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Figueira da Foz, Portugal Posts: 4,515 Downloads: 110 Uploads: 0	Tried last night, very good indeed. The game do not suffered the same slowdown's that use to have. __________________ http://www.flickr.com/photos/16416646@N05/

06-11-07, 03:28 AM	#36
McBeck Admiral Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Denmark Posts: 2,027 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	Nice thread... __________________ "I like subcommanders...they dont have time for bull**!" Proud member of the Subsim army of zombies Becks website

06-11-07, 07:51 AM	#37
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,254 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	I used the FSauto stop program offered up a few post back. It is a nice little program. I actually gained about 2 more FPS and the game seems to run just a bit smoother. May not sound like a lot of gain but for 1/2 hour of installing the program and setting it up, it was worth it. 2 more FPS can be the difference between this game sucks to WOW, this is very nice now. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

06-09-07, 06:22 AM	#31
THE_MASK Ace of the deep . Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 9,226 Downloads: 901 Uploads: 73	For XP users . Make the paging file size min = 1.5x max=3x Go to RUN and type in MSCONFIG and go to startup . Google to find out what the services are . Untick what you dont need . Click on start/ control panel/system/advanced/performance settings/untick all the boxs except for the bottom two then press ok. Download and clean harddrive with this http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ Use the xp disk cleanup . Defrag the harddrive .

06-09-07, 03:36 PM	#33
Fish40 The Old Man Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Yonkers, NY U.S.A. Posts: 1,507 Downloads: 154 Uploads: 0	Take a look at this site: www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicefg.htm. Everything you wanted to know about your OS, as well as the services running in the background. The info here is what was used in FS AutoStart with regards to services descriptions. Also has guide on how to configure your system to different applications (such as gameing), and which services should be shut for max performance. Great site!

06-11-07, 12:00 PM	#38
Fish40 The Old Man Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Yonkers, NY U.S.A. Posts: 1,507 Downloads: 154 Uploads: 0	Glad you're enjoying it AVG. I've been useing this little utility for quite some time now. I know its helped me a bunch!

06-11-07, 12:04 PM	#39
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,254 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	It took me a minute or two to figure it out but then I read the directs. It is quick about shutting down my programs and fires them up quickly when I done playing. Nice little utility. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

06-11-07, 12:12 PM	#40
MONOLITH Grey Wolf Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 997 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I use "End it All". Automatically goes through all running processes and shuts down everything unnecesary. Before I run it there might be 24 or more processes running in the background. End it all gets it down to 4 or so. And I don't need to worry about "what's that one?" and "what's this one?"; it knows. http://www.docsdownloads.com/Tier1/enditall.htm If you try it, just make sure you follow the instructions, and click the Double XX to end programs, not the skulls icon. You'll see them. I've used it for awhile and never had a single problem with it, or from anything it shuts down. __________________

06-11-07, 06:13 PM	#41
THE_MASK Ace of the deep . Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 9,226 Downloads: 901 Uploads: 73	or the inevitable , you need to upgrade hardware items .