[PoopyTheJ]

So I'm looking for any and all performance tweaks that you guys use for windows 2000. These are for overall system performance, personally a well kept spyware free system, moving the page file to a drive other than the system drive and these few registry tweaks are my favorites but I'd like to hear what all tweaks/settings you guys like to use for windows 2000 to squeeze the most performance out of your box.

My favorite registry tweaks are located in [HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session Manager/Memory Management]

And are
LargeSystemCache = 1
IOPageLockLimit = 5242880
SecondLevelDataCache =1

[PangingJr]

most of the registry tweaks or often known as registry hacks that exists on internet sites are originally from the Windows Resource Kit Documentation. but there are still many internet myths floating around. some of the registry values should not be used as Windows registry tweak standards or for applying on every system, but because of their less explanation and little notice that often lead the readers to the wrong direction.

there are lots of documented and undocumented Windows system settings that you can only modify them through the registry.
many of them can be used for performance tuning, check the documented ones out at the following sites...

Windows 2000 Professional Resource Kit
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d.../en-us/Pro.asp

Windows 2000 Registry Reference
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...k/regentry.asp

[PoopyTheJ]

Cool, great resource thanks! I've got a presentation on improving corporate system performance at work for our current fleet with my reccomendations on software/hardware improvements, so this will help...

[Gonzo28]

for fast system performance i use tuneup 2006, that is a very small, fast and good program!

www.tuneup.de

[PangingJr]

No problem, PoopyTheJ.

[DamentZ]

go to http://damentz.dontexist.net and dowload a7tune, run the exe and go to your profile in documents and settings w/ hidden folders on, then local settings and temp. Look for rar sfx or something similar, theres hould be a folder called bin. Theres your reg files, or you can just run the application that loads which does the same as importing those files.

LargeSystemCache = 1
IOPageLockLimit = 5242880
SecondLevelDataCache =1
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should be
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"LargeSystemCache"=dword:00000000
"IOPageLockLimit"=dword:00001500
"SecondLevelDataCache"=dword:00000000
;Second level data cache is automatically detected by windows nt and up unless you have some really old processor such as the first pentium processor or worse
;Large system cache is for servers, dont use it, it loads unneccessary files into memory that a normal desktop user will not use
;IOpage lock limit is for the memory cache while copying files, set it to high while ur copying files and ur pc freezes and u just lost a lot of data, plus you wasting memory