Some Notes on the Machines

Here are interesting guides:

https://library.linode.com/hosting-website

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=340239

It’s still very possible, good for speed, especially for web-based apps both local and Internet:

http://www.reaper-x.com/2008/07/10/set-up-caching-nameserver-on-windows-using-bind/

Add the following to all shortcuts, before the %U:

--disk-cache-size=1

and also add the above to this registry key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ChromeHTML\shell\open\command

On lower-powered PCs, CPU not necessarily RAM, this can prevent Chrome from locking up the PC to do cache cleanup. And it does speed up Chrome a lot — in fact, as long as one has 2G RAM or so, this seems like a good idea in general.

Here’s another:

http://pxc-coding.com/portfolio/tweak-me/

This was found recently, right here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee377058(v=bts.10).aspx).aspx

It is not certain how up-to-date the page is, but it is clear that there are some interesting tweaks available for MaxWorkItems, MaxMpxCt, and MaxCmds.

A great list of Windows 7 services tweaks is here, courtesy of Charles M. Sparks:

http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/black-vipers-windows-7-service-pack-1-service-configurations/

and general tweaks as well:

http://www.blackviper.com/2009/10/01/black-vipers-windows-7-super-tweaks/

A great new toolset for tweaking and optimizing Windows:

http://www.mztweak.com/products.html

One item: the full-auto optimizations are not entirely enterprise-compatible, they disable terminal services, NetBIOS, DNS registration, and other essentials.

Here is another, by tweaking.com:

http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/simple_system_tweaker.html

Active Desktop — the background-is-a-web-page thing in 95 and 98 — is still there in XP, though mercifully it was deleted starting in Vista. To disable it, go here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

create a DWORD of ForceActiveDesktopOn, set it to 0; and create a DWORD of NoActiveDesktop, set that to 1. Then reboot, and it’s done!

Here are two very interesting articles with tweaks:

http://www.speedguide.net/articles/windows-7-vista-2008-tweaks-2574

http://www.stoufis.gr/blog/topics/709