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Reply #45 - Jun 24^th, 2008 at 12:16am

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Trust him, NOD 32 is great, and it treads your system lightly.

Others like Norton may be fine, but they fight FSX for CPU time and slow it right down.

ESET's NOD is the best purchase I have made, and by the way I have absolutely no sign of invasion or malware.

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Reply #46 - Jun 24^th, 2008 at 2:21am

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NickN wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 11:11pm:

but I wont lower my standards... if you trust the list I posted, trust my AV suggestion

eset has another new customer.

Does it hurt if I did accidentally a space defrag after shaping up the system according to your advice ? I notice that a name defrag thereafter took again 2 hours or so, so I wonder if the space defrag somehow counteracts the name ordering.

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Reply #47 - Jun 24^th, 2008 at 11:48am

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DocW wrote on Jun 24^th, 2008 at 2:21am:

NickN wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 11:11pm:

but I wont lower my standards... if you trust the list I posted, trust my AV suggestion

eset has another new customer.

Does it hurt if I did accidentally a space defrag after shaping up the system according to your advice ? I notice that a name defrag thereafter took again 2 hours or so, so I wonder if the space defrag somehow counteracts the name ordering.

That is the difference between version 10 of O&O and version 8.5 and 8.6

With version 10 of O&O you should not use the SPACE defrag option after the first time running it from my list. With 8.5 and 8.6 you CAN run a SPACE defrag after a small install like that just to clean things up and then do the NAME defrag at a regular maintenance interval based on my list for keeping things tidy over time.

Version 10 SPACE defrag will ruin the NAME defrag… version 8.5 and 8.6 will not

When ever you install a major add-on like UTX or GEX into FSX its best to do a NAME defrag because those items are huge and the NAME defrag will help quite a bit

I know it takes time to do that kind of optimizing but well worth the result

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Reply #48 - Jun 24^th, 2008 at 12:12pm

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thanx again. Everything runs bloody well on my system now, booting is a charm and FSX has now a real nice aspect. You did a great job. I consider myself lucky that I stumbled across this thread. I remember very well pyaing at work "experts" 150$ the hour for jobs that aren't worth 1% of what you offer.That's what I'd call dedication.

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Reply #49 - Jun 26^th, 2008 at 10:08am

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Hi Nick,

Why is Registry mechanic or Tuneup Utilities not needed anymore?

Thanks

Rik

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Reply #50 - Jun 27^th, 2008 at 11:20am

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Those tools are now a "by user" decision

I do use a reg cleaner every so often however I no longer 'compact' the regisry and have not for a very long time. WinXP and Vista have had changes made to them whereby the registry is kept in good shape automatically and therefore use of that feature in programs like RM are not necessary.

I would be very careful with 'tuneup tools"

Thay can do things that may hurt performance instead of help. The best "tuneup" you can do is the maintenance I posted in cleaning out/flushing temp files, checking and cleaning up new 'startup' items not needed and then running the defrags...

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Reply #51 - Jun 27^th, 2008 at 1:45pm

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Nick, you've previously stated "The page file ALWAYS goes on the boot drive with WindowsXP. Never move it."

Well, per an IT knowledgeboard (http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm) I have move my pagefile to another physical drive. Would you suggest I undo that work and leave it on my System (C) drive rather than in its own partition on my 2nd physical hard drive? (I'm currently running WinXPSP3 but have not started your system tweaks yet.)

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Reply #52 - Jun 27^th, 2008 at 1:48pm

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ajmilan wrote on Jun 27^th, 2008 at 1:45pm:

Nick, you've previously stated "The page file ALWAYS goes on the boot drive with WindowsXP. Never move it."

Well, per an IT knowledgeboard (http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm) I have move my pagefile to another physical drive. Would you suggest I undo that work and leave it on my System (C) drive rather than in its own partition on my 2nd physical hard drive? (I'm currently running WinXPSP3 but have not started your system tweaks yet.)

Thanks.

Andy

I second that, before I read your list I had it on another drive, too. I read as well that this should have improved performance in XP.

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Reply #53 - Jun 27^th, 2008 at 1:49pm

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That IT tweak is for NETWORK SERVERS and old computers that have low memory. It started back in the days of Windows95/98 when the average system had 128MB of memory..

no gain in a modern system unless its a network server and the system admin has tuned that page for the 'calls' being made to the server

in other words, the tweak is USELESS for modern game systems and has been for at least 5 years

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Reply #54 - Jun 27^th, 2008 at 2:10pm

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So I'll take that as an "if it ain't broke, leave it alone" and leave it in place.

Thanks.

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Reply #55 - Jun 27^th, 2008 at 8:31pm

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Thanks for your advice Nick about the Registry tools.

i have often wondered about such tools. I often think they claim to do much more than they actually do.

Everything you say is not Gospel, but a Bookmark.

Cheers Nick!!

Rik

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Reply #56 - Jun 29^th, 2008 at 7:42pm

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Nick, under the Internet Explorer Temp. Internet Files settings to set the disk space to 1200. The allowed range is 8 to 1024 MB, so I set it to the max.

Are there any issues with that setting? Why am I not allowed to set it to 1200 as you suggest?

Still working through the list...

Andy

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Reply #57 - Jun 29^th, 2008 at 8:38pm

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ajmilan wrote on Jun 29^th, 2008 at 7:42pm:

Nick, under the Internet Explorer Temp. Internet Files settings to set the disk space to 1200. The allowed range is 8 to 1024 MB, so I set it to the max.

Are there any issues with that setting? Why am I not allowed to set it to 1200 as you suggest?

Still working through the list...

Andy

Opppss

Sorry

they changed that with IE7.

That setting is up to you. You should flush IE once a month manually anyway.

If you do a lot of surfing the higher value does help IE but that one is really a 'to taste' setting. There is no performance value to the 'system' in that, just IE if you browse a lot

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Reply #58 - Jul 13^th, 2008 at 10:55am

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Nick,

When attempting to use the following "rundll32 advapi32,ProcessIdleTasks" I get the following error: "Error in advapi32 Missing entry:ProcessIdle". I am not using quotes when entering that line.
Any ideas?

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Reply #59 - Jul 13^th, 2008 at 11:46am

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Is the task scheduler enabled in the services list?

Almost sounds like a corrupt windows advapi32 file. Assuming the syntax was correctly copied that command should run as posted

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