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Contents
Disabling unneeded services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Optimizing the location of the boot files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Chapter 9: Making Your Computer Load Faster . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Speeding Up the Logon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Enabling automatic logon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Removing user passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Adjust the startup programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Customizing startup programs for different users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Other Time-Saving Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Assigning alternative IP addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Turning off the logon music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Chapter 10: Making Your Computer More Responsive . . . . . . . . . . 231
Speeding up file browsing and access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Disabling the file access timestamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Disabling legacy filename creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Speeding Up the User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Reducing the menu delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Working with the performance options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Disable Indexing Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Chapter 11: Speeding Up Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Working with the Windows Prefetcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Hacking the registry to optimize the Prefetcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Accelerate specific applications with prefetch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Using the Intel Application Accelerator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
How well does the Intel Application Accelerator work? . . . . . . . . . . . 253
What are the system requirements? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
How to install Intel Application Accelerator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Fine-Tuning the Windows Paging File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Disabling the paging file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Adjusting the size of the paging file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Changing the location of the paging file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Defragmenting Your Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Defragmenting the Windows paging file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Defragmenting the NTFS master file table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Adjusting Your Application Priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Using Task Manager to adjust priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Starting applications with a user set priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Using WinTasks to profile your priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Speeding Up Your Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Increasing network browsing speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
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