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post #1 of 60
5/17/04 at 9:25pm
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interested in any new tweaks anyone has.... ive beent o all the tweak sites, but id liek some new and exciting ones...

im not sure there are any i ahvent done...

im down to running 9 processes at start up... i have 0 prograsm runnign ats tart up... my reboot takes 24 seconds.

ive got all the enwest drivers, ive tweaked my windows the way i liekthem, tweaked the menus so there is no delay.

anybody got anythign new i can try?
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post #2 of 60
5/18/04 at 9:34am
Yeah... Put a freakin rocket on it! You have the most tweaked out comp there is methinks...
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post #3 of 60
5/18/04 at 10:02am
Agreed. If I put a rocket in my POS Compaq, it would still lag behind an AW.
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post #4 of 60
5/18/04 at 10:53am
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Originally Posted by jamaster14
interested in any new tweaks anyone has.... ive beent o all the tweak sites, but id liek some new and exciting ones...

im not sure there are any i ahvent done...

im down to running 9 processes at start up... i have 0 prograsm runnign ats tart up... my reboot takes 24 seconds.

ive got all the enwest drivers, ive tweaked my windows the way i liekthem, tweaked the menus so there is no delay.

anybody got anythign new i can try?

Im in the same situation Jam I think i have teaked this thing as far as it can go even down to replacing the exploer shell for a new smaller faster one. The aston.exe is only 3,000kb compared to exploere.exe 16,000kb starts up faster and is alot more flexiible in the ways you can format it its a littel strange at fiirst but you can ge the hang of it quickly!

http://www.astonshell.com
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post #5 of 60
5/18/04 at 1:02pm
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Originally Posted by Braingoo
Im in the same situation Jam I think i have teaked this thing as far as it can go even down to replacing the exploer shell for a new smaller faster one. The aston.exe is only 3,000kb compared to exploere.exe 16,000kb starts up faster and is alot more flexiible in the ways you can format it its a littel strange at fiirst but you can ge the hang of it quickly!

http://www.astonshell.com
yeah brain, i went to ashton but then i wanted to hack my start button so i went back to explorer....

i just want to have the absolute cleanest system possible that runs nothing but the essentials...

if i have a 1 byte file i dont use i want to hunt it down and delete it!

how many processes do you runa t start up(i.e. whats the read on task manager when you boot up... include multiple instances of svchost)

can you hack the start button with ashton? i put the computername as the start button on all my computers... amkes life easier when using the kvm switch!


** EDIT ** speaking of which anyway to tell whihc instances of svchost are doing what?
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post #6 of 60
5/18/04 at 1:23pm
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Originally Posted by jamaster14
yeah brain, i went to ashton but then i wanted to hack my start button so i went back to explorer....

i just want to have the absolute cleanest system possible that runs nothing but the essentials...

if i have a 1 byte file i dont use i want to hunt it down and delete it!

how many processes do you runa t start up(i.e. whats the read on task manager when you boot up... include multiple instances of svchost)

can you hack the start button with ashton? i put the computername as the start button on all my computers... amkes life easier when using the kvm switch!
If you are looking for an alternate shell with a smaller footprint than exploder, try litestep out.......very nice, fully configurable and COMPLETELY free. Nothing like OSS.
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post #7 of 60
5/18/04 at 1:52pm
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interesting program....

http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/taskmanager.html
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post #8 of 60
5/18/04 at 1:56pm
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Originally Posted by jamaster14
Cool must try this out when i get home later
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post #9 of 60
5/18/04 at 1:57pm
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just an FYI...

after some research if you type:
Tasklist /svc

at the ccommand prompt it will tell you which DLL's/processes are being run by each instance of svchost.
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post #10 of 60
5/18/04 at 8:36pm
lol I have 31 processes running at startup. I guess I'll check into getting rid of some of them.
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post #11 of 60
5/18/04 at 9:17pm
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Originally Posted by Hunt
lol I have 31 processes running at startup. I guess I'll check into getting rid of some of them.
blackviper.com

tells you exactly what process you do and dont need running at startup...

and there is not 1 program you need running at start-up.
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post #12 of 60
5/18/04 at 11:20pm
That is a very cool site! I saw it in the tweaking thread but didn't think I would use it until now when you said you can boot up in 24 seconds lol. I timed mine and it took 48 seconds before tweaking and 38 after. Still nothing close to yours and i still have 28 processes running at startup so I guess I will go back through the list and take more services out.
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post #13 of 60
5/18/04 at 11:23pm
Just checking over the list of services agian and ccApp and svchost are pretty big!
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post #14 of 60
5/19/04 at 12:42am
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hunt
Just checking over the list of services agian and ccApp and svchost are pretty big!
search the forum for a post by braingoo... he has a zip file than includes an excel spreadsheet with all the services we disabled... its down ot only like 10 or 12 processes...

and you can still do everything you normailly would!

do you have any programs runnign ons tart up?

like in msconfig?

i have 0
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post #15 of 60
5/19/04 at 1:38am
i like blackbox and all its forms(bb4win, xoblite, bblean, etc), for an gui replacement, sooo much more versitile then exploderand with full skinning it uses less ram/cpu then it as well, and blows the poop out of the stardock crap too. imhfo
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post #16 of 60
5/19/04 at 8:05am
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Originally Posted by jamaster14
search the forum for a post by braingoo... he has a zip file than includes an excel spreadsheet with all the services we disabled... its down ot only like 10 or 12 processes...

and you can still do everything you normailly would!

do you have any programs runnign ons tart up?

like in msconfig?

i have 0
Yes I have Norton running at startup which is associated with the ccApp.exe. Also have the remote master, InCd, and Xear Audio. I'll will surely search for that post by Brain!
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post #17 of 60
5/19/04 at 9:16am
Hers is a link to that spreadsheet!

http://notebookforums.com/attachment...tachmentid=777
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post #18 of 60
5/19/04 at 9:41am
probbaly a dumb question....how do i disable them from starting up each time u start up the pc?
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post #19 of 60
5/19/04 at 10:00am
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Originally Posted by Aquemini
probbaly a dumb question....how do i disable them from starting up each time u start up the pc?

I use this

Winpatrol
http://download.com.com/3000-8022-10...ml?tag=lst-0-1

It will let you know what is runign at start up and let you remove or disable it.
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post #20 of 60
5/19/04 at 10:03am
You can also go to blackviper.com and follow the guide for the services and it tells you how, and what to disable. It really helped me out
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