04-17-2004, 01:27 PM
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Captain
  Join Date: May 2000
Location: L.A..... Costa Mesa... Whatever, Man!
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What's the leanest WinXP install you've seen?
I'm messing around and trying to get it as lean as possible upon login. So far, I'm down to using 80 MB of memory (including zonealarm and popup stopper) after login. Mind you, this is on a Dell using the from-the-factory install of XP Home.
Any tips on getting it even more lean? Dave. |
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04-17-2004, 04:21 PM
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Rear Admiral Lower Half
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
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did u use blackvipers tips to disable services??
if not heres the link http://www.blackviper.com/ hope it helps
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04-21-2004, 06:09 AM
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I love free!
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Location: LA, California
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where on the site snow?
i'm like reading everything on the site too  |
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04-21-2004, 06:33 AM
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Admiral
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I read everything on the site too, lol... even his favorite games, restaurants, movies, etc.
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04-21-2004, 06:34 AM
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Rear Admiral Lower Half
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woops, should have been more specific
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04-21-2004, 02:20 PM
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Commander
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Boston, MA
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Aren't you going to load an anti-virus program on there? What are you using for your pop up stopper?
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04-21-2004, 06:01 PM
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Captain
Join Date: May 2000
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Nope, no AV. And I use the Popup Stopper free edition. I haven't found an AV program that I like enough to let it run 24/7 on my system. Though, Trendmicro's is not too bad. Dave. |
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04-21-2004, 06:12 PM
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Rear Admiral Lower Half
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: USA
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dave have u disabled any services you don't need??
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04-21-2004, 07:19 PM
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Rear Admiral Upper Half
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Location: Michigan
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 whats up with the picture? |
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04-25-2004, 06:42 AM
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For those of you who have tweaked your systems using this guide, is it recommended to just go with the reg hack, or actually tune the services manually? |
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04-26-2004, 01:52 PM
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Captain
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Wisconsin, Appleton
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i can only get mine down to 98 megs of ram.. hmm must be missing some stuff
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04-26-2004, 10:54 PM
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Captain
Join Date: May 2000
Location: L.A..... Costa Mesa... Whatever, Man!
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Yep... disabled any and all unnecessary services (that I recognized)... but in my latest attempt, I'm going to do a fresh install. Tried ghosting my old Win2k install on it, but it blue screened and gave me "boot device inaccessable".
Anyone know any way around such a BSOD error? If not, no big deal. Differences in the HAL maybe? Dave. |
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04-27-2004, 05:45 PM
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Commander
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: boston, ma
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I would warn against using registry hacks. Some of them work a little bit, like tweaking your paging, but I'd used a reg hack utility called BootVis made by microsoft, and it wreaked havoc on my system, and I had to format and reinstall quickly.
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