Windows 2003 tweaks

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You can select best appearance settings here or select your custom settings from the options there. This will eliminate old style my computer view and make it like XP Then you can use 3rd party softwares like Windows blinds to apply custom themes.

Performance settings Services : Now by default windows server is configured to run the background services well. This may hamper performance in the task currently under highlight. Here select Adjust best performance for Programs and memory usage to programs. Click apply and reboot the PC. So, what is the end result of all this?

Well have a look. Those work in the same way on windows server like page file management, gpedit. If you want all of them listed please tell so that I can include all of em here Feel free to ass new tweaks that you know or the one I missed here so that this thread will be a complete tweak and configuration guide for people moving to windows server Last edited: May 19, Jkhan , May 19, David , May 19, You need windows xp drivers, they work here.

If they dont then you need to install them in winxp compatibility mode. I'll keep a lookout for this OS, and will let u know if i try it sooon.. Jkhan , May 20, Enterprise Edition 2. Standard Edition 3. Web Edition I can run winXP as good as win98 even better So do tell me which one I should get Is there any difference between the 3 versions, and if there are any, what are they???

Jkhan , May 21, I've finally installed the WinServer Enterprise Edition. Unfortunately, it's a pirated copy, so I cant run windows update Is there anyway i can atleast grab the fixes for blasterworm and sasserworm, so that it wont screw my system from starting every 5 minutes.. And one more thing, this baby is fast!!!!!! Even I have noticed the quick response time on my system Still have to try games to let it stay on ma hard drive Any suggestions and tweaks are extremely appreciated man January 1, by Snakefoot 1 Comment.

January 1, by Snakefoot 7 Comment. Description of how the drivers and firmware for the computer hardware should be updated to get the best performance. The Master File Table is the index for all files and directories placed on a ntfs partition and critical for ntfs performance.

How to change the cluster size of a partition with description of the different filesystems and their limitations. Home About Articles Links Forum. Category: Tweak Performance Description of soft and hard page faults November 17, by Snakefoot 0 Comment Description of how Windows optimizes the virtual memory to minimize the need for hard pagefaults.

Use process affinity to lock application to a single core January 21, by Snakefoot 1 Comment Applications optimized to run on single CPU systems, will perform worse on multi CPU systems. Description of the hard disk cache April 19, by Snakefoot 8 Comment The hard disk performance is very dependent on the configuration of the disk cache.

Configure memory manager to minimize memory fragmentation February 28, by Snakefoot 0 Comment Memory manager should only mark a continuous memory block as free when the block has reached a certain size.

Description of the kernel memory area in Windows NT February 23, by Snakefoot 5 Comment How the kernel memory area is divided into the different page pools. Disable the page file to avoid using the slow HDD June 19, by Snakefoot 3 Comment Disabling the page file to prevent Windows from unloading memory to the hard disk.

Configure shortcut link tracking March 16, by Snakefoot 1 Comment Control what should happen when a shortcut is detected as being broken.

Configure the logical prefetcher for faster application start December 29, by Snakefoot 3 Comment Microsoft Windows can speed up the launch of application by prefetching the data the application usually request at startup. Specify base priority when launching programs February 5, by Snakefoot 1 Comment Decide the CPU priority when starting an application.

Use several Explorer. Change processor quantums to tweak application priority February 2, by Snakefoot 3 Comment Configure how the process scheduler should split up the processor slots. Defrag hard disk partitions to speed up file operations January 1, by Snakefoot 6 Comment List of steps to perform before starting a file defragmentation on a hard disk partition.

Disable paging of drivers and kernel core January 1, by Snakefoot 2 Comment Prevent the Windows kernel core from being paged to disk.

Defragmentation utilities to remove file fragmentation January 1, by Snakefoot 0 Comment Different utilities available to keep file fragmentation at a low level, and maintain good hard disk performance.