Windows XP "tweaks" for better performance

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:31 pm

This one intrigued me as I just came across it.

http://www.espace-cubase.org/anglais/page.php?page=flmatosxp

The "ACPI or Standard Mode?" got me. It seems like a pain in the butt to do, having to reinstall all my drivers.
But is it worth it? Does anyone know about this?

What other tweaks do users here find important? What are your paging file (virtual memory) settings?

This is where I did most of my tweaking from before:
http://www.musicxp.net/tuning_tips.php

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:45 pm

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The "ACPI or Standard Mode?" got me. (...)
But is it worth it? Does anyone know about this?

Forget it. This is a tweak from the past. You definitely don't want to do this on current mainboards / PCs, it's either useless or even counterproductive.
The reason is the so called APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller), which will allow e.g. for more interrupts. Only an ACPI installation will support this.

As far as the swap file is concerned, it's good to keep it at a fixed size.

Daniel

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:57 pm

Fixed size meaning?

I took the advise of the musicxp.net site and set my paging file as

min: 1.5x my amount of ram
max: 2x my amount of ram

Is this bad?

Are the tips on this site a bit outdated? Is there a better site?

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:09 pm

JLiRD808 wrote:

Fixed size meaning?

Choose a user-defined size and set min. and max. size to the same value. This will prevent Windows from fiddling with the swap file in the background.

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:29 pm

Whats a good method for choosing the size?

I got a gig of DDR400 ram if that means anything.

Thanks!

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:36 am

JLiRD808 wrote:

Whats a good method for choosing the size?

I got a gig of DDR400 ram if that means anything.

Thanks!

It all depends on the amount of ram in your system to begin with.

What are you concerns that you are trying to tweak?

I have a default xp installation and only turned of a few services. I'm getting on avg 30 plug ins per session and only using about %50 of my cpu.

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:54 pm

SuprSpy79 wrote:

JLiRD808 wrote:

Whats a good method for choosing the size?

I got a gig of DDR400 ram if that means anything.

Thanks!

It all depends on the amount of ram in your system to begin with.

What are you concerns that you are trying to tweak?

Just trying to optimize my system.

I just said I have a gig of ram.

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