NBR Vista Tips and Tweaks Guide

[yesgokul]

Wonderful info guys. TuneXP did help

[Les]

Thank you very much. New tips daily...or until i run out.

[batkinson001]

sofar so good system runs nice back on defaults, boots the same as usual which is something i guess i will have to live with.

[Les]

Did you say yours still boots with the flash on boot?

[niGht kiD]

Go into Bios by hitting F2 at the start screen
Go to On Board Devices
Sata Operation
AHCI should be checked.

Now go to Flash Cache Module
It should be enabled.

Hi flamenko, could you explain the purpose of doing the above action to me? and what's the SSD that you guys mentions? Thanks..

[wettek]

Hey guys.

This has been great, and I intend to try it out. A question though, does anyone know how to get rid of that annoying "double flash" where the screen goes black then comes back again when you are shutting down?

Thanks and regards to all.

[Les]

Wettek:

No...that double flash, to the best of my knowledge, is part of the shutdown process....things closing quickly.

Glad ya like it...

haOkepa:

I was explaining the setup configuration to another SSD user to ensure he is in ACHI mode and not ATA mode.

An ssd is a solid state drive which is different than a hard drive, in that, it doesnt spin. It is similar to flash memory.

[ScuderiaConchiglia]

I guess in the end, the question still remains to be, "Why is everybody experiencing such great results if this doesn't work?

No one is saying it doesn't work. We are only trying to figure out HOW it works. Trebuin attibuted it to some unseen special defrag, but we now know the only two processes involved are both Microsoft ones. There is no special TweakXP defrag at all, it is using defrage.exe to do its bidding. One only needs to look at the list of running processes to see that. But the results of what TweakXP is doing stand for themselves, it obviously is improving folks boot times. Since the rest of TweakXP is of no use to us, we might be able to create something that accomplishes the same thing if we can get to the bottom of this.

Personally, I think what is happening here is that TweakXP is invoking the very thing that is SUPPOSED to be happening behind the scenes automatically in Vista. But the way Vista is handling this is flawed. It appears that Vista is waiting until there is some slack time to do this and most folks are not leaving their machine sitting idle long enough for that to occur. I am trying to track down the "schedule" by which Vista is supposed to do this. The trials that wax4123 is doing will show if there is something else that TweakXP is doing that is making some difference. Maybe the author has found some other undocumented parameter for defrag.exe. But at this point it is obvious he is using defrag.exe to accomplish this bit of magic.

Wax4213....
I respect everyones expertise here which includes...yes his... but maybe some should just finish jumping in and cutting at others threads. I am not speaking of you specifically and it is obvious to many where this comes from.

No one owns any thread here. All threads are open to discussion, that's the entire point of forums like this. You are taking this all much too personally.

Gary

[trebuin]

Ok, here's how tuneXP is different from windows boot defrag:

1) Windows will defrag and consolidate the boot files.
2) TuneXP will defrag and consolidate the boot files at the beginning of the partition...unlike vista/XP, that's why you see the perfmance boost.

3) TuneXP then calls the standard Defrag that windows uses under the second defrag process.

So there are 2 defrag runs...run it in XP and you will understand.

*edit: actually, I think there are 3 which I only remember through XP, it would bring up the blue scroll bar, then the defrag text, then a message saying not to do anything until the command screen closes. Since I did not write this program, I cannot answer this.

*edit 2: I will not post anymore about this on the thread...I will forward this through Flamenko to be posted on the initial thread. I'm sorry I can't be on very long, but I am currently deployed.

[trebuin]

Here's what I changed for my services. I put a lot in manual as I can confirm that they will not start unless for some reason it really is needed. Essentially, disabled is changed to manual where it does indeed keep the item from starting. There are three things I set to Automatic over the safe setting's recommended disabled:
1) HID (needed for controllers)
2) PDES (needed for my camera media)
3) WMCLS (needed for sharing media via media center over to my wife's laptop)

Edit 1: attachment did not take.
Edit 2: I did not build this for tablets