Jesus' WinXP Tweaks and Tools!
 

All this shit is free and I use it when I need it.
Reap the benifits of my non-existant social life.


My favorite Free Antivirus
http://www.free-av.com

My favorite free firewall
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/14/3/14-3-10.shtml

Deleted File Recovery
http://www.handyrecovery.com/download.shtml
http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html

Ram cleaning
http://www.yourwaresolutions.com/products.html

Page File Defragmentation
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr...gedefrag.shtml

Change your bootlogo to somthing cool
http://www.tofahrn.de/tools/bootlogo.zip

Tool that will give you TONS of system information!
http://www.aida32.hu/aida32-download.php

Spy Ware Tools
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=mirrors
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/
http://tinyurl.com/39f9q


My guide to prefetch cleaning
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first make a file in your XP system drive root named "prefetch.bat" and enter this into the file (replace C: with the drive letter you have XP installed on)

md C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\pf_tmp\
move C:\windows\prefetch\CMD*.pf C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\pf_tmp\
move C:\windows\prefetch\USER*.pf C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\pf_tmp\
move C:\windows\prefetch\NTOS*.pf C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\pf_tmp\
del C:\windows\prefetch\*.pf /q
move C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\pf_tmp\*.* C:\windows\prefetch\
rd C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\pf_tmp\



From the Start menu, select "Run:
Type in "gpedit.msc"

In the window that appears, under the "computer configuration" heading, expand "windows settings"

under "windows settings", select "Scripts (Startup/Shutdown)"

double click "shutdown" from the right window

click "add"

click browse and locate your "prefetch.bat" file

click "open"

click "OK"

click apply or OK to finalize this process.

Now you are done. every time you shut down or restart your computer, it will run your shutdown script to delete the prefetch files and give you a faster startup.

Hey some great links. Thanks :thumbsup

This thing makes adobe start MUCH faster (for reading PDF files)

"Adobe Reader SpeedUp is a simple application that was created to help make the loading time of Adobe's Acrobat/Reader software bearable for everyday use. AR SpeedUp only needs to be used once (a process taking only a few seconds) and then your 'Reader will be transformed forever. There are also some tweaking options available. "w00t!", as the young kids say."

It works.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bootblo...ar-speedup.zip

Good post.. I'll have to look into some of these programs.

Give me Anti-Vir over norton/McAfee any day.

I have used them all And the freeware runs faster and is more "minimalistic" plus they dont load as many DLLS and are not as hellbent on staying on your computer even after you try to uninstall them...

Ever have a norton uninstall go south?
ITs like a demon has possesed your PC.

EMSA disk check.
http://www.e-systems.ro/downloads.htm

Wow, youre first useful post, thanks. I needed some of this.

any of this good for WIN2k?

wanting to try it, but is it recommended to tweak your PC? So far mine has been in great condition and afraid it might crash after trying them out the fact that there's no assurance it works in everyone's workstation. :(

Here are some good apps for when you think u have a virus but ur not sure or if u just want to kno whats going on, on ur box.



FPORT: Will show u what apps are open and what ports they are using

http://www.foundstone.com/index.htm?...desc/fport.htm



Process Explorer: WIll show u ALL processes running (I FUCKING LOVE THIS SHIT) and will show u what files tehy are using, Pids, etc etc everything

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr.../procexp.shtml

Please refrain from being a pussy. U cant learn if u dont try man!

Great post, I'm definiately looking into some of this stuff

To easily see current connections and their addresses, make a textfile named GetIP.cmd and insert this into it:

Thanks JC, was looking for some of this stuff for a long time for my desktop pc

Wow. your attempting to make a witty flame....

Too bad thats not a first; I've already had to read a couple hundred of them.

Its "your" btw... (no IM not the grammer police but this is one time when you're is actually the incorrect word to use)

It's grammar.

Good stuff Jesus. I use Sygate also. Find it much better to use than Norton etc.

I like this guys site for learning which XP services aren't needed:
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

IMO killing services really will not do much to improve your performance. ON most machines I'll just make sure the windows messanger does not load, but unless youre REALLY tight on recources Its really not worth messing around with the services. The gain isnt worth the trouble on todays systems.

Scalding.

Praise the lord! Thank you Jesus! :winkwink:

Cool links. Thanks.

tried it several times to a number of PC', a few have crashed already.
oh, i forget, i own 80 workstations used mainly for designs and programming. Pussy? hehe make sure whom you call pussy, been a Tech Support guy at IBM and been all sorts of PC problems everyone can ever think off. i say make sure you read all the precautionary measure before you tweak your system.