Some Notes on the Machines

Here is a place to download CachemanXP 2.0:

http://majorgeeks.com/Cacheman_XP_d4102.html

This one is very good:

http://majorgeeks.com/ATF_Cleaner_d4949.html

There are lots of things which can be done to speed up Windows 7.  These are just about essential on netbooks.

http://www.computingunleashed.com/speed-up-windows-7-ultimate-guide-to.html

There are quite a few posts containing this information on the WWW now, I’m not sure to whom deserves credit.  Go to Tools/Options/General, Memory section, and:

Number of steps: 30
Use for Open Office: 128
Memory per Object: 20
Number of Objects: 20

Setting certain BOOT.INI switches will improve OS performance in Windows Server 2003 and XP, if there is 1G or more RAM present:

http://blogs.technet.com/marcelofartura/archive/2006/09/14/3gb-pae-awe-what-basic.aspx

On any XP PC in which Office 2003 or above is installed, there is an add-on installed into IE, called “Research” or “Research Toolbar”. If you delete it, IE performance will sometimes triple, and overall Explorer performance is usually increased at least somewhat as well.

It’s called the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service. It clears up lots of memory management issues. Helps on everything 2000, XP, and 2003, most definitely (sometimes especially) including terminal servers. Speeds up any workstation or server. Apparently it helps keep the registry small in real-time. Not for Vista, there are notes on that subject within.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en

There are very rare instances when the registry on a PC or server is corrupted in ways which the UPHCS can’t clean, and in some of these cases, we must boot to safe mode and disable the UPHCS. I have seen only three such cases out of many hundreds of installs to date.