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RUPerformance Tweaks
Features of this group are intended for increase speed of loading, operation, turn off an operating system and another software by changing of standard options of system thus that a computer resources which can be spent for performance of more useful tasks were released. Also these options help to increase safety and a power system effectiveness.
A system reboot is required to apply some of the tweaks.
All features in this section can be returned to initial state by means of Red Button.
When you are opening the Features window, ticks on the Performance Tweaks tab corresponds to current system settings.
In this section following features are accessible.
Automatically Close Hung Applications
Hung applications will be automatically closed without a prevention.
OS: XP/Vista/7
Automatically Close Hung Services
By default if a service does not respond Windows 20 seconds wait before it to close.
OS: XP/Vista/7
Automatically Unload DLLs from Memory
Use this option to unload DLLs automatically when the application using them has been closed.
OS: XP/Vista/7
Disable Active Desktop
With Active Desktop you can use interactive web page as your desktop wallpaper.
OS: XP
Disable Automatic Windows Update
Windows Update is a service provided by Microsoft for users of Microsoft Windows which provides updates for the operating system and its installed components. Microsoft Update is an optional feature that can be enabled to provide updates for other Microsoft software installed on a Windows computer, such as Microsoft Office, Windows Live applications, and Microsoft Expression.
OS: XP/Vista/7
Disable AutoRun of CD/DVD
By default Windows will run a default application when a new disk is inserted into your CD/DVD ROM drive.
OS: XP
Disable AutoRun of Windows Messenger
OS: XP
Disable Balloon Tips
Normally Windows will display a balloon tips in the notification area to guide and give advice to new users.
OS: XP/Vista
Disable Creation of Last Known Good Configuration
This setting allows you to disable the creation of the Last Known Good Configuration, which stores a copy of the configuration after each successful boot-up.
OS: XP/Vista/7
Disable CTFMON
CTFMON (ctfmon.exe) is a process used by Microsoft Office to activate the Alternative User Input Text Input Processor (TIP) and also the Microsoft Language Bar.
OS: XP
Disable Desktop Cleanup Wizard
The Desktop Cleanup Wizard helps you clean up your desktop by moving rarely used shortcuts to a desktop folder called Unused Desktop Shortcuts. When enabled the Desktop Cleanup Wizard will regularly check your desktop for shortcuts that have not been used in the last 60 days. If such shortcuts are found it will allow you to remove this shortcuts and store them in an automatically created desktop folder called "Unused Desktop Shortcuts".
OS: XP/Vista
Disable Diskspace Warning
Use this option to disable warning message when your hard disk almost full.
OS: XP/Vista
Disable Dr. Watson Dr. Watson is a debugger started by default at each failure in work of applications.
OS: XP/Vista
Disable Error Reporting
Error reporting is when your system attempts to connect to Microsoft’s website to send a report of the problem you are experiencing in hopes to help fix it by documenting it.
OS: XP/Vista
Disable Fast User Switching Compatibility Service
Disable File Association Web ServiceDisables the web service to find the appropriate program for unknown file types.
OS: XP/Vista
Disable Firewall
OS: Vista/7
Disable Messenger Service
Messenger Service is a network-based system notification service included in some versions of Microsoft Windows. It was designed for use by system administrators to notify Windows users about their networks.
OS: XP/Vista
Disable Net Crawling
Disables the automatic search for network folders and printers.
OS: XP/Vista
Disable NTFS Last Access Time
When Windows accesses a directory on an NTFS volume, it updates the Last Access time stamp on each directory it detects. Therefore, if there are a large number of directories, this can affect performance.
OS: XP
Disable NTFS Short Name Creation
By default, NTFS generates the style of a name containing eight characters and three characters for the extension. It allows to save compatibility with old versions of OS of Microsoft (MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows 3.x).
OS: XP/Vista
Disable POSIX Subsystem
POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX) - Windows subsystem developed for applications support POSIX. For overwhelming majority of users it is useless.
OS: XP/Vista Disable Program Compatibility Assistant
OS: Vista/7
Disable Recent Document History
Recent Document History contains links to files you’re opened for quick access to recently opened files.
OS: XP/Vista
Disable Recent Shares in Network Places
Disables visited network shares being added to Network Places.
OS: XP
Disable Remote Registry Service
Remote Registry Service allows remote users to change register parametres on your computer.
OS: XP/Vista
Disable Search Assistant
Disable animated search companion.
OS: XP
Disable Search Indexer
Indexing the contents and properties of files designed to increase the speed of finding files on the disk or text within a file using the standard Windows search program.
In Windows Vista, when you turn off the indexing of files Windows Explorer will not display virtual folders elements.
If you use the search function a little, turn off it to improve system performance.
OS: XP/Vista/7
Disable Secondary Logon Service
Disable SSDP Discovery Service
Disable Start Menu Show DelayBy default at opening of lists of the Start Menu Windows carries out a delay that slows down work.
OS: XP/Vista/7
Disable System Restore
System Restore monitors changes to your system allowing you to roll-back to previous configurations.
OS: XP
Disable Tablet PC Input Service
Disable Thumbnail CachingOn Microsoft Windows operating systems (starting with Windows XP), a thumbnail cache is used to store thumbnail images for Windows Explorer's thumbnail view. This speeds up the display of images as the smaller images do not need to be recalculated every time the user views the folder. This effect is more clearly seen when accessing a DVD containing thousands of photos without the thumbnail cache files and setting the view to show thumbnails next to the filenames. The problem is that over time these files are becoming more and more. Therefore, they can be periodically removed. All the necessary files in the future Windows will create anew.
OS: XP/Vista/7
Disable Time Synchronization
Stops the W32Time service. This service controls date and time synchronisation on all clients and servers in a network. If this service is stopped, date and time synchronisation will not be accessible. If this service is disconnected, any services which obviously depend on it, cannot be started.
OS: XP/Vista
Disable Universal Plug and Play Device Host Service
Disable Visual EffectsDisables: combobox animation, mouse/cursor shadow, listbox animation, menu animation, menu fading, menu selestion fading, mouse hot tracking effects, tooltip animation, tooltip fading, gradient taskbar captions, menu shadows, windows animation, other common control animation.
OS: XP/Vista/7
Disable Windows Defender
OS: Vista/7
Disable WMI
WMI is intended for collection of every possible reports on the fulfilled operations and about the occurred errors.
OS: XP
Disable Windows Media Player Automatic Updates
OS: XP/Vista/7
Disable Windows Media Player Automatic Codec Downloads
OS: XP/Vista/7
Disable Windows Media Player CD and DVD Media Information Retrieval
OS: 7
Disable Windows Media Player DRM for Imported Music
OS: XP/Vista
Disable Windows Media Player DRM Internet Access
OS: 7
Disable Windows Media Player Music File Media Information Retrieval
OS: 7
Disable Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service
Disable Windows Media Player Recent Files ListOS: 7
Disable Windows Security Center
OS: XP/Vista/7
Disable Wireless Zero Configuration Service
Optimize Hard Drive When IdleThis setting will rearrange files on the hard drive when the computer is idle thus improving performance of the system.
OS: Vista/7