Tweaking Winxp
<div class="IPBDescription">what should i know?</div> utils or tweaking or configuring... what should i do to my winxp? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Theres <a href='http://www.tgtsoft.com/' target='_blank'>StyleXP</a> and such. Theres <a href='http://www.samurize.com' target='_blank'>http://www.samurize.com</a> , and more. Custom themes, logins, etc can be found at <a href='http://www.wincustomize.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.wincustomize.com/</a> or <a href='http://www.themexp.org' target='_blank'>http://www.themexp.org</a>. <span style='font-size:7pt;line-height:100%'><span style='font-family:Impact'>*cough*....nsxp...almost done....making a login as we speak...*cough*</span></span>
There are also those sidebar things, screensavers, etc.
I hope thats what you mean.
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Hi MonsE!
<a href='http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/bblean/' target='_blank'>Boom</a>
Most excellent reference, thanks!
This guide also has some real good registry tweaks and extra programs that will help speed up boot times, etc.
Only works for 15 days, but most of the things you'd do with it are one time things anyways.
Its a must get for optimizing and customizing Windows.
indeed
<a href='http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/winxphks/' target='_blank'>i like this book, you should too</a>
Theres <a href='http://www.tgtsoft.com/' target='_blank'>StyleXP</a> and such. Theres <a href='http://www.samurize.com' target='_blank'>http://www.samurize.com</a> , and more. Custom themes, logins, etc can be found at <a href='http://www.wincustomize.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.wincustomize.com/</a> or <a href='http://www.themexp.org' target='_blank'>http://www.themexp.org</a>. <span style='font-size:7pt;line-height:100%'><span style='font-family:Impact'>*cough*....nsxp...almost done....making a login as we speak...*cough*</span></span>
There are also those sidebar things, screensavers, etc.
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D: I think he meant tweaking stuff, not aesthetics.
If you ever get done I'll mirror a copy, that tweak guide is great as it is, even if it is old, I was thinking of mirroring a copy anyways just to keep it up from whenever the google cache goes down.
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/Me pokes MonsE
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Time to join in on the poking.
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<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>*Zaggy pokes MonsieurEvil*</span></span>
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I shant poke MonsE directly. I shall <a href='http://www.little-gamers.com/index.php?strip_id=204' target='_blank'>poke one of the Microsoft Lawyer Ninjas under his control</a> until he agrees to tell MonsE to update it.
Hopefully MonsE will be able to hear the request from inside his Bill Gates 1 Mecha suit. (Ninja are rather quiet people, you know)
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<b>1):</b> In regards to setting your page file size as a multiple of your physical memory, does this refer to your RAM or what?
<b>2):</b> How often do you need to defrag? Is once every 10 days to 2 weeks to often? Can any harm come from defragging TO often? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<b>1):</b> In regards to setting your page file size as a multiple of your physical memory, does this refer to your RAM or what?
<b>2):</b> How often do you need to defrag? Is once every 10 days to 2 weeks to often? Can any harm come from defragging TO often? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
You guessed correctly, physical memory = RAM.
As far as I'm aware, the only harm that can come from defragging is that you're making the hard drive do something, and over the course of multiple <i>years</i> constant activity <i>may</i> increase the risk of the drive having a mechanical failure on the inside. It just makes logical sense when you have the equivalent of a wheel turning a whole lot of times within close proximity to a needle. Then again, defragging more often means that each time it defrags, it has less work to do. Once every one or two weeks is fine for my purposes.
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I have 1gb of RAM, so how do I set this up right?
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*POKE*
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Set "initial size" and "maximum size" both to 2560MB. But if possible you should do it on a harddrive that doesn't have the OS installed on it. This should all be covered in the guide. Which I will upload a .doc of just so people don't use the google cache.
<a href='http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/showdoc.php?doc=txp_about' target='_blank'>TuneXP itself</a> ?
get the TweakXP pdf guide. Then you will have everything.
*POKE*
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Set "initial size" and "maximum size" both to 2560MB. But if possible you should do it on a harddrive that doesn't have the OS installed on it. This should all be covered in the guide. Which I will upload a .doc of just so people don't use the google cache. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->If using 2 separate physical disks (such as 'C' and 'D') then change the location of the page file to the disk that does not contain the operating system.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I have only 1 disk. Also, it suggests this be done immediately following installation of the OS, so would I not reap any benefits by doing it now? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Yes, you would still get benefits from it now. But that only works if its actually on annother disk, not just annother partition.
Marik's posts rock pretty much all the time. That's why I like him.
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