Sometime Vista just freeze for a
some time during boot up or application launching. In this
article, I will show you how to unfreeze Vista and
accelerate overall performance smoother and faster.
Vista default all processes launches into all
processors (virtual or physical) and set
the priority to "Normal", as a result taking too much
resources and cause deadlock between start up
software. If you can reschedule all
processes into proper priority and processor(s), you should
be able to accelerate the boot up time and make application
launching smoother and faster.
The Magical Command
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Below is a command that you can use in your shortcut (icon),
or registry =>
HKEYLOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun.
C:Windows System32 cmd. exe /c start "title" /MIN {/LOW|/BELOWNORMAL|/NORMAL|/ABOVENORMAL|/HIGH|/
REALTIME} /AFFINITY {1,2,4,8 or Add Up} "directoryprogram.
exe" program_parameters
For example, I had an
Anti
Spyware life update in my startup
registry, 'C:Program FilesSpywareDetectorLiveUpdateSD. exe'.
I can change it to 'C:Windows System32 cmd. exe /c START "LiveUpdateSD.
exe" /MIN /LOW /AFFINITY 2 "C:Program
FilesSpywareDetectorLiveUpdateSD. exe" -AUTO'. In this
command I set the process to "Low" priority, and assign it
to second processor "2". Please take note that the process
number should be interpreted as belows:
1 - CPU 1
2 - CPU 2
4 - CPU 3
8 - CPU 4
To Assign to CPU 2 + CPU 4, then number will be 2+8=10. So
you need to specify /AFFINITY 10 in the parameters.
Use this command and lower all your messenger software and
any programs that run at background. This will not only
accelerate your boot up time, it also free up more CPU
resources for application software.
Process Tamer
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This is a software to assign priority on each of your
software, it will try to monitor and lower the priority of
your background services, including Windows services. You
can download it at DonationCoder. Just types "Process Tamer
DonationCoder" and you should be able to download it.
To use this software properly, you can try to lower each
process priority, set the software higher priority to speed
up the process, normally just need to lower priority of the
specific process or services. Try to maintain a "Normal" for
most of my application, because "High" priority will always
freeze your Windows but not necessary faster.
After properly reassign and reschedule the start up programs
and frequent use application, you should feel faster and
smoother, or you need to re-test your tuning again.
(C) Copyright 2008 Kok Choon
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