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Posted: May 26, 2000 Written By: Keith "Farrel" McClellan Even More Services... Workstation -- This handles all of the rest of your networking functions (ones that aren't covered by other services anyway). Unless you don't even have the Internet (which is very unlikely unless someone printed this guide out for you -- tsk tsk), leave this puppy enabled. There are a ton of other services that come with Windows 2000 by default, but the majority of them are set to Manual for most configurations. However, as I get more information on Win2k services, I'll be sure to update this section of the guide. Disabling Startup Programs Windows 2000 doesn't include a way to remove programs started by the registry like Win98 does with the System Information program. However, if you want to do it manually, you can browse to the HLKM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN key and manually delete the values that are loading the program from there. I would recommend exporting the values that you intend on deleting before deleting them in case you need to reinstall them at a later time. ’Defragmenting’ your RAM Some very serious questions have been raised as to the validity of this particular ‘tweak’ within Windows 2000 and whether or not it is necessary, or even good, for your system. The whole issue is as follows: while Windows 2000 uses the same 4k pages that are used within the system memory of Win9x to organize information in memory, it actually manages them properly (by paging the unused pages out to Virtual Memory when they aren’t in use) and as such ‘defragmenting’ (which is a misnomer and should actually be called Garbage Collection or Heap Compaction and ‘should’ be a function of a good OS) is an unnecessary operation because it is already being done by the OS dynamically. Also, because of the way the operation is performed (the actual effect of running the program is a flushing of the physical memory – it basically copies all of the data to pagefile and forces the computer to reload it as it is needed), it actually forces good information out of physical memory as well – so not only is there no benefit to it, it can also temporarily decrease the speed of your system as the computer reloads the information into RAM. However, no real damage can be done to your system by performing this operation, so I am going to leave the information on implementing it in this guide for the time being. While I am pretty sure at this point that performing this isn’t really going to improve the speed of your system, the whole situation may be similar to the ‘rebooting’ situation. While Win2k isn’t designed to ever really have to be rebooted unless you change settings, it is often observed by network administrators that doing so on a daily basis can improve performance and stability. What I am wondering is if this might be a similar case (as it has the similar effect of clearing out the memory), and as such more input would be appreciated. Either way, at this point, I am not promoting this tweak and it is definitely ‘experimental’ – at least in respect to its effectiveness. |
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