Disable Recent Documents History
Quit logging recently opened documents.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoRecentDocsHistory"="1"
Make windows quit logging which applications you run and which files and
documents are being accessed.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoInstrumentation"="1"
Shutting down/
Startup
Keeping your system clean on startup will improve your system
startup time and will also free up additional resources by not having so much
junk running in the background. We have a database of startup entries searchable
here. Through this you can find
out which entries should stay and which are best to remove.
1.) To go along side this I have written a guide to tracking down programs that are on your startup, you can read it
HERE.
2.) You'll also want to turn your boot logo off, the guide is
HERE.
3.) You'll also want to remove any fonts that you don't need, the guide is
HERE.
There's quite a few things related to shutting down your system faster
located in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control
Panel\Desktop\
AutoEndTasks (set to 1) will automatically kill hung up
programs for you. The next one is HungAppTimeout (make sure it's
5000). Next up is WaitToKillAppTimeout. Which should be set to 4000
(default is 20000).
Since we have the programs being killed after a certain amount of time you
will also want to do the same for services. Change the
WaitToKillServiceTimeout to 4000 as well.
MenuShowDelay is the delay between when you click and when the menus are actually shown.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control
Panel\Desktop\]
"ForegroundLockTimeout"=dword:00000000
"AutoEndTasks"="1"
"HungAppTimeout"="5000"
"MenuShowDelay"="1"
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="4000"
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="4000"
The XP Prefetcher
XP Prefetcher Information and Tweaks
Disable Auto reboot
1. Right Click My computer and hit properties
2. Go to Advanced
3. Under the Startup and Recovery section, click Settings...
4. Under System Failure un-check "Automatically restart"
BootVis
1.) Download
Bootvis and run it.
2.) Click Trace --> Next Boot + Driver Delays
3.) This screen asks about the number of repetitions. Once is the default
and its good enough. You can simply click on OK. Your system will now restart.
4.) Select Trace --> Optimize system then wait for it to be done. It
tweaks quite a few oddball things to improve your system load times.
OS List Delay
1.) Start --> Settings --> Control Panel --> System --> Advanced
2.) Startup and Recovery settings
3.) If you're dual booting lower the time to something like 10 seconds and make
sure you've set your default OS to whichever you use more. If you only have one
operating system then you should uncheck the box that says "time to display list
of operating systems"
