Defrag your fucking hard drives, MFT and page file

memory optimisers, :lol:

tbh you don't really have to do anythign at all.

I doubt you will ever notice the difference between everything running and less running.

ok great, im disabling the useless ones now like help, indexing etc.. hopefully it'll improve my system somewhat. Could you give me some advice on the Perforance options please;

processor scheduling and memory usage and virtual memory..

the scheduling and memory are set to Programs, and the virtual memory ATM is set to (initial size 720 MB - maximum size 1440mb)

i have a laptop 512mb ram, celeron m 1.60ghz cpu running xp sp 2 and i use it for surfing, downloads, music, divx.. etc

are they the best settings i should use or..?

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Originally posted by John
They are absolutely useless, don't use any at all.

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to be fair, i disable them to get as much go as i can, but its not much an improvement.

the only real ones which sap are windows themes...

i know about them, its just im a lazy sod :lol:
im just thinking will it be worth 5 minutes of my life disabling services for a little bit of memory.

do you know much about the services you shall be disabling, or are you going pot-luck?

I have freshly formatted my laptop, and i want it to run as best as it possibly can tbh. I'm thinking of disabling a lot of the services which i dont use too, like indexing, help.. etc.

just not sure if its worth all the hassle though.

[Edited on 14-12-2006 by danny_vx]

Page file maybe but none of these utilities do very much use at all, especially the memory ones.

Better than finding other programs like that and having fancy graphs of how much memory you have free give your computer a format and it'll be much faster.

Why would you want to free up memory?

If it's there it should be used.

only thing i use is a utility called pagedefrag

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/PageDefrag.mspx

defrags the registry hive and pagefile during each boot, will really only show any benefit on systems with a highly fragmented page file and registry hive...

Do you think optimizing the page file, etc is useless aswell?

I'm agreeing with John on this one.

They are absolutely useless, don't use any at all.

Can anyone recommend me a really good one? I've been using the built-in memory optimizer from tuneup utilities, but it isnt really that good tbh. Can anyone recommend me a better one? :)