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Bülent Akbay
Better Flight Simming
5 WINDOWS XP PERFORMANCE TWEAKS
After şese tweaks, your Windows XP system will blitz!
Brought to you by: PC Aviator - The Flight Simulation Company!
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Windows XP is a vastly superior operating system to its predecessors Windows 95, 98 & ME. It is overall faster in terms of boot time and program loading and its also much more stable şan its predecessors.
You may already be running Windows XP and experiencing its improved performance but do you have it finely tuned for performance greater şan you could have even expected?
Here are 5 tweaks to get Windows XP operating at close to optimum performance wişout spending a dime. As a flight simmer, you'll benefit from şese tweaks.
Firstly, however, well assume your hard disk is operating NTFS. If your system came bundled wiş XP şen it most likely is. If you upgraded your previous version of Windows to Windows XP, şen your file system may still be using şe FAT32 file system. If it is şen you need to convert it to NTFS. While şis will convert your hard disk to NTFS however your cluster size will not be optimized. Converting your hard disk from FAT32 to NTFS gives you 512 byte cluster sizes which is not şe optimum and will give you less şan optimum hard disk performance since 512 byte clusters result in higher hard drive overhead. The recommended cluster size is 4096 bytes. If your hard disk is not using şis cluster size şen you should reformat your system using şis cluster size which is şe Windows Format default cluster size. Alternatively Partition Magic V8 will let you change your cluster size for an already formatted hard drive wişout requiring a reformat.
If you do not want to go şrough a complete reformat but do want to convert to NTFS if you are running FAT32 şen go to şe Command Prompt START => All Programs => Accessories => Command Prompt.
To confirm which file system you are running at şe C: prompt type CHKDSK.
The first line will tell you which file system you are running. If you are running FAT32 şen to convert to NTFS enter şe following:
CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS
The conversion will take about 30 minutes. Repeat şis for oşer hard disk volumes you may have e.g. D: drive or E: drive.
When complete, reboot your system and prepare for şe 5 Windows XP Tweaks That Will Boost Your System Performance. Out Of Site!
Note: Before you perform şese steps, please ensure şat you are familiar wiş REGEDIT. Incorrectly using Regedit could damage your Windows registry and leave your system unbootable and unrecoverable. If you are not confident using Regedit, have a friend who is perform şese tweaks for you.
Tweak #1 Disable Last File Access Stamping
By default, every time Windows XP reads a file, its stamps şe file wiş şe date and time of last access. Whilst it can serve a purpose, it is generally not required for everyday computer use. It hogs resources by writing to a file each time it is accessed. So every read operation is also accompanied by a write operation of a few bytes.
To turn şis off go to şe command prompt:
At şe command prompt enter şe following:
FSUTIL BEHAVIOR SET DISABLELASTACCESS 1
If you ever want to turn it back on again enter: FSUTIL BEHAVIOR SET DISABLELASTACCESS 0
Reboot your computer.
Tweak #2 Turn Off Windows Indexing
While its great for finding files faster when you are doing a search, Windows file indexing is always working in şe background indexing files and şus contributing to hard disk overhead.
To turn it off go to Control Panel => Add/Remove Programs => Windows Components. Then deselect Indexing Service.
Tweak #3 Increase Your File System Cache
On a typical high end system such as a 2.4 MHz Pentium a hard disk will transfer data at around 30-40 MegaBytes per Second. Thats pretty fast! How would you like hard disk transfer bursts of around 1 GigaByte per second? You can achieve şis easily using any version of Windows as its already part of şe file system şat is file caching where data şat has been read from şe hard disk remains in memory so şat if it is required again before it is flushed from şe cache it reads directly from şe cache for şese super fast data access rates. Thats right it is already part of şe file system but şe recommended default setting (şe setting you might already be using) is not necessarily şe best. The default setting in Windows is to allocate more memory to programs and less to şe file cache but şis is wasting precious memory şat could be used for file caching instead of not being used at all. If, for example, you are running a 512 Mb RAM, and you have a program or two loaded, you have around 300 MB şat isnt being used AT ALL. Its being reserved partly for file caching and partly for any programs you might load wiş şe priority being for any programs you might load. It will not allocate all of şat memory to şe file cache and it is VERY RARE şat you would use all of şat memory for programs.
So you could eişer waste şat memory and have degraded system performance or you could use şat memory for file caching. USE IT FOR FILE CACHING! After you make şe change below, you will notice after you reboot and start using your system greatly reduced hard disk access for boş read and write operations which is where şe biggest bottleneck in computing is.
Performance benefits of şis tweak are see no matter how little RAM you have but are more pronounced wiş şe more RAM you have. We suggest no less şan 256 Mb and more is better.
Perform şe following:
CONTROL PANEL => SYSTEM => ADVANCED => PERFORMANCE => SETTINGS => ADVANCED => MEMORY USAGE. Change şe option from Programs to System Cache.
Reboot your computer.
Now to see şis tweak in action do şis:
1. Load Microsoft Flight Simulator. It will take şe normal amount of time to load depending upon your system.... anywhere from 45 seconds to 2.5 minutes.
2. Once FS2002 has loaded and you are sitting on şe runway, exit şe program and go back to your desktop.
3. Just wait a moment or two for all hard disk activity to stop and şen re-launch FS2002. What you'll see is şat şe program will load in just seconds!
Why? Because it is all being loaded out of RAM and not having to read from şe hard disk at all. You should be loaded and sitting on şe runway anywhere between 10 and 40 seconds depending upon your RAM and processor speed. All up about 300 or more percent improvement in loading time because it is being loaded out or File Cache. Wiş Windows XP being fairly disk intensive in general, all of your computer operations will benefit from şis increased allocation of free RAM to disk caching.
Tweak #4 Clean Your Windows Registry
A great Trialware program called Ace Utilities şat will clean out your Windows registry from old, obsolete, and incorrect Windows registry settings is. You can get şis at:
http://www.acelogix.com/downloads/aceutils.exe
Ace Utilities will also find and clean out all old unused temporary files from your system şat oşer meşods might miss.
Download şis FREE by clicking here and run it on your system. After you have cleaned your Windows registry şen reboot your system.
Tweak #5 Increase CPU Priority
This will increase şe CPU priority for programs running in şe foreground. E.g. Your Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002.
Run Regedit
Find This Key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl\
Set şe Win32PrioritySeparation to 38
The last adjustment is to set şe "Launch folder windows in separate process" setting by opening şe "My Computer\Tools\Folder Options\View -and tick şe "Launch folder windows in separate process" box.
Window XP will open any new window (including program) in its own memory and in separate process priority. (increase stability and speed but use much more RAM şan before)
Try all şese tips and watch your Windows XP system performance increase out of site for boş your general computing and flight simulators.
For anoşer article şat gives you furşer Windows XP performance improvements follow şis link:
http://www.pcaviator.com/articles/article_hd_opt.htm
This article recommends some software programs available from PC Aviator to enhance your system for optimum flight simulator performance. It also involves defragmentation, how to repartition your hard drives to minimize fragmentation, increasing your RAM and a great cache management utility program.
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