Services to turn off: Alerter Application Management Automatic Updates ClipBook Distributed Link Tracking Client Error Reporting Service Fast User Switching Compatibility Messenger Portable Media Serial Number Service Remote Registry Routing and Remote Access Task Scheduler Telnet TPC/IP NetBIOS Helper Uninterruptible Power Supply Change "Recycle Bin" size to 1% Registry Hacks: Auto Sort Start Menu HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder Go to Edit/Permissions, click Advanced, clear the "Inherit From Parent" check box, click Copy from the dialog box, click OK and then clear the "Full Control" for your account and now Windows will autp sort the start menu, but you can still do it too Disable User Tracking HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Add or Edit DWORD = NoInstrumentation, Value = 1 Disables Windows user tracking; better performance, much better privacy Cache Thumbnails HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced Add or Edit DWORD = DisableThumbnailCache, Value = 1 Disables thumbnails in Windows, saving hard drive space Kill Chrashed Apps Quicker HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop Add or Edit Sring = HungAppTimeout, Value = 1000-5000 Cuts time for Windows to recongize a crashed application and allow you to kill it; default is 5000(for 5 seconds) Faster Start Menu HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop Add or Edit Sring = MenuShowDelay, Value = 0 - 400 Changes the delay that for Windows to show a menu in the start menu; value is in ms Network Intelligently HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters Add or Edit String = DisableTaskOffload, Value = 1 Frees processor from doing network-card work Browse the Network Faster HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace Delete subkeys {2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D} and {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} Speeds up network browsing of old Windows machines on the LAN by ignoring their scheduled tasks and printers Remove Compression Option In Disk Cleanup HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Compress old files Delete the Default Value Key and the next time you start Disk Cleanup, it will skip the compression analyisis