**Baddass' Guide to Windows Performance, Optimization, Security and Tweaking**

[Wiggins]

Excellent tweaks

 

[BoomAM]

When copying large ammounts of data or individual files between machines on a network, temporarily disable the "On Access" AVD functionality and half the time it takes to send and receive the files!

Where would i disable that?

 

[BigBoy]

Heres one that needs to be stickied i think as the question has been asked a lot.

How To remove the "Safely Remove Hardware Icon"

two options take your pic



1)
right click on taskbar
select "properties"
check "hide unactive icons" at the bottom
click "customize"
select the "safely remove hardware" line
choose "always hide" in the drop-down list
click OK twice

2)
right click on "my computer" on desktop
select "manage"
select "device manager" in the left tree
expand the "USB controller" category on the right tree
double-click the "root USB hub" where your "always on" device is connected
in the last tab ("power management"), uncheck the "allow to shutdown" checkbox
click OK and close the "device manager"
reboot

bye

 

[Curiosityx]

Where would i disable that?

It differs between different versions of Anti Virus software,

 

[BoomAM]

It differs between different versions of Anti Virus software,

I thought that the advice was specific to windows and not AV programs.
Misread.

 

[HEADRAT]

How to fix you XP Systems Sounds when they just stop working:-

http://www.nosystemsounds.com/

HEADRAT

 

[jonnybjonny]

truly fantastic guides here

just followed this on a recent format

 

[xrayhead]

Baddass thanks for your efforts! After using some of the steps from this faq my system works much better, nice one!

Xray

 

[xrayhead]

Just a quick one for everyone (sure most of you know already)!

A shortcut to the system properties window is as follows.


1. Right click my computer
2. Click properties

See images bellow!

Just saves time rather than doing the following;

1. Head to Start
2. Select Control Panel
3. Select System


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Or if you want to be really cool!!!

Hold Windows Key and hit the Pause/Break
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[jojothemonkey69]

brilliant thanks

 

[dannyd123]

thanks ...big help ..has sped my computer up slightly and taught a lot..really is a baddass guide

 

[cruisinbeatz]

This guide is pretty good, cheers mate, its works quite nicely too.

 

[wizard91]

Great guide.

 

[M0nkeyNUTS]

Just been reading your tweaking guide badass about disabling automatic updates

If you stop and disable automatic updates off in the services.msc you cant even download updates off the windows update site as it requires it for the site to work

 

[BigBoy]

Just been reading your tweaking guide badass about disabling automatic updates

If you stop and disable automatic updates off in the services.msc you cant even download updates off the windows update site as it requires it for the site to work

This is correct.

I have a script setup to enable the service run windows update and then disable the service. works like a charm.

 

[M0nkeyNUTS]

bigboy could you send us a copy of the script as it gonna get very annoying start and stopping it manually

 

[BigBoy]

bigboy could you send us a copy of the script as it gonna get very annoying start and stopping it manually

@echo off
cls
echo **************************************
echo **   Starting Services needed for   **
echo **         Automatic Update         **
echo **          Please Wait...          **
echo **************************************
net start "Automatic Updates" >nul
psservice setconfig "automatic updates" auto >nul
net start "Background Intelligent Transfer Service" >nul
psservice setconfig "Background Intelligent Transfer Service" auto >nul
start /D%SystemRoot%\system32\ /wait wupdmgr.exe
cls
echo **************************************
echo **    When Updating Is Complete     **
echo **      Press Any Key To Exit       **
echo ************************************** 
pause >nul
net stop "automatic updates" >nul
psservice setconfig "automatic updates" demand >nul 
net stop "Background Intelligent Transfer Service" >nul 
psservice setconfig "Background Intelligent Transfer Service" demand >nul
exit

copy and paste this in to notepad and save as a CMD file and bobs your uncles aunt.
you will need to download PS tools (www.sysinternals.com)
this also disables the BITS service as i dont think it is needed for anything else.

 

[M0nkeyNUTS]

Nice script you made there. Works a treat.

 

[SkeeterUK]

I havent read the whole thread just the optimises on first page or two. Anyhow with doing them optimises windows is now actually very slow to shutdown compared to it only took 20 seconds ish to shutdown before.

What have i changed that has make windows take about a minute to shutdown and how do i correct it.

 

[JonB]

Quick question, just about to do a re-install of windows and will be following the very short but sweet guide on the first page. Is there an update to DirectX post SP2?