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[Lobo]

It seems some people do not know how to do speed test correctly, see help page below in signature, 2nd page at bottem under Tips.
Nothing can be running, some people believe if you close a program, then it is not running, wrong, it is not active, but it is running, exit out of everything next to time except display and volume.
Clearing temp internet files, top of IE, tools, internet tools, delete files, delete offline content, and clear history every time you test.
Every wonder why a fresh install runs faster, well if you did not totally mess it up it is because a fresh install has a registry that is not fragmented, your Windows defragmentor only defrags hard drive, not registry, so after deleting things and tweaking your registry becomes fragmented, which cuts down on performance and speed. Save your pennies and buy something that will defrag registry.
Registry cleaner does not defrag but cleans out registry.
Always reboot before speed teting so you have all your RAM available, take test at www.pcpitstop.com and at end of test click on Windows-resourses tells you, you need the highest to 100 as you can get.
Auto-update-turn off
system restore--turn off, These are nice if you have alot of RAM, but if you only have alittle, turn off.
Remember exit out of AIM, ICQ all of it, hope this helps alittle.:) :)

[Lobo]

I want all you people who are not a home during day to see this,
I use Fix-it utilities I've had it for 5 years and could not live without it, it has virus scanner, defrags registry, defrags hard drive, I have 30 Gig hard drive and it takes 30 seconds, plus a lot more, but you must have something to defrag your registry, perfomance is speed, and if your registry is badly fragmented, there goes your speed:) :) :)http://www.ontrack.com/fixit/

[Buggyman]

er... you talking to yourself????

[Lobo]

No I'm trying to send a message to people like you, but if you insist on using that stuff that starts with "Nort, then more RAM is what you need:D :D

[lance-tek]

Lobo-

the link doesn't seem to work well, at least for me it isn't working.

secondly, is it freeware or do you have to pay for it?

third, I have norton utilities, does it have a reg defrgger in it? does anyone know?

I have looked through it but cannot seem to find a reg defragger in it, but I am not too used to having it either.

lastly, you can also turn off the speaker in the taskbar if you so choose:

Simply go to the control panel and open sounds and multimedia at bottom there is a box to check to display icon in taskbar, if you uncheck it the icon is gone.


I got plenty of RAM, but also have set norton utilities and all the proggies it has to manual so they don't run unless I turn them on:)

[Lobo]

The link works now Lance, I don't know if Norton has that or not, they make good software, just uses alot of resourses:) :)
And no it's not free but well worth the pennies:D , Man this board is about to drive me to drink, I know they are working hard on it but, I've fallen and can't get up

[lance-tek]

Norm,

nothing for ME, it is still dos based

and cmon man I need 2k here. :)

thanx for posting it for everyone else to use though :)

[Lobo]

Line Speed Test

Test Results:

Test file size: 500 KB
Download time: 0.67 seconds
Estimated line speed: 5970.1 Kbps
Estimated transfer rate: 746.3 KB/sec.


Repeat Test




Defrag now it's worth it:D :D

[Lobo]

Well alittle more tweaking has payed off

Line Speed Test

Test Results:

Test file size: 500 KB
Download time: 0.54 seconds
Estimated line speed: 7407.4 Kbps
Estimated transfer rate: 925.9 KB/sec.


Repeat Test




:) :) :)

[hoov]

That is just incredible speed Lobo !!!! You are a lucky man

[Lobo]

Yall, can do it too, just tweak some, you'll get it :) :)

[hoov]

What test site did you do those last tests at?

[Lobo]

http://cowgod.org/:) :) :)

[hoov]

Thanks Lobo, that site is nice short, quick and sweet !!

[kismatic]

LOBO I did all that you said for cleaning the files this seems to be th ebest I got so far

Test file size: 500 KB
Download time: 1.05 seconds
Estimated line speed: 3809.5 Kbps
Estimated transfer rate: 476.2 KB/sec.

I see your speeds are pretty much double mine, wow is all I can say, WOW

[kismatic]

Lobo How About You Tell Us all All The Things You Have Done To Optimize Your Speeds, Dont describe them mayb ethat would take to long how about you just tell everyone what you have done.

[Lobo]

Simple, XP :) :) :)

[hoov]

So do you use Windows 2000 tweaks in XP Lobo??

[Lobo]

It's weird, some work, some don't, just do 1 at a time, if it does not work, take it out right then to avoid conflicts later:) :)

[puhbare]

My first line test was 292KB/sec

then it kept going down, even after deleting files

I got it back up to 175KB/sec

I'm going to have to save up for FixIt

I would like to know where I can get XP. I know it was posted a while ago, but that thread is weeks old. Do they have a downloadable version? Feel free to e-mail me if you don't want to get in trouble. I'll give anyone who helps a cyper kiss :)

[drewwpb]

Lobo's right in what he had in his first post , it seems that people have forgotten the basics when doing a speed test....I'm guilty of it too....:rolleyes: Also I use Norton SystemWorks and it does have a registry defragger (Norton calls it "Norton Optimization Wizard") you'll find it under Norton Utilities.......

[Lobo]

See thread on this page, XP maybe, maybe not:) :)

[lance-tek]

thx drewwpb-

I have been trying to find out if Norto had a reg proggy in it or not. On mine though it is called Norton Disk Doctor :) but you gave me the heads up on it so thx :)

[Juggernaut]

Check this out...one way to defrag was mentioned earlier but would work only on Win9x...here's something for Win2k that is freeware.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pagedefrag.shtml

Any thoughts on this program?

[One Liberty]

Hey Lobo,

I did as you instructed to do and these are the test results:

Text Block Size 200 KB Download Time 5050 ms Receive Buffer 8192 bytes Transmission Speed 317 Kb/s

Upload Speed 271 Kb/s

If these numbers are impressive, maybe its because I added to keys to Windows 98 that were from the Windows 2000 and Windows NT registery.

Here are the keys I added and my systems specs.

SYSTEM
Window 98
Cyrix MII 300Mhz
192 MB of SDRam
6.4 Gig HD
1.6 Gig HD
Riva TNT 16 MB Video
SiS 5598 Sound Card
Cable Modem by Tobisha pcx100
Biostar Socket 7 motherboard w/512 cache

KEYS ADDED TO WIN98 REG
{Windows NT Cache Tweak}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro
l\Session Manager\Memory Management

SecondLevelDataCache=00,02,00,00

{Window 2000 Cable/DSL Tweak}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters

DefaultTTL=80,00,00,00
EnablePMTUBHDetect=00,00,00,00
EnablePMTUDiscovery=01,00,00,00
GlobalMaxTcpWindowSize=4c,ae,05,00
SackOpts=01,00,00,00
Tcp1323Opts=03,00,00,00
TcpWindowSize=4e,ae,05,00

So got any answers to help me out.....Mucho Gracias,

Robert T

[kismatic]

Hey I use Norton Utilities2001 I have this optimization wizard thingy that configures the Swap File and does something to the reg, does anyone know if this is a registry defragmenter???????

[lance-tek]

On mine though it is called Norton Disk Doctor:)

good luck-

[drewwpb]

Kismatic, the answer is Yes....

Lance , what version of NSW do you have ? Norton Disk Doctor is like Windows Scan Disk. I have NSW 2001, had 2000 and the Norton Optimization Wizard was in with Speed Disk...At least I thought it was....

[lance-tek]

I have NSW 2001:)

I couldn't find what you were looking for so I just started lookin around and I found that.

Maybe you are talkin about something else, but when I opened it up it was goin through the reg.................figured it must be the right one :confused:

If ya like I can post a pic of it to show ya where I pull it up from, the path to it I mean

or you can post yours and I can see it so that i know if I am just blind, that is quite possible I am blind at times :( I looked a few times to be sure though but didn't see what you had said

[lance-tek]

http://jeremyvlantz.homestead.com/files/NSW.jpg

Does this look like yours? if I am using the wrong stuff, let me know I just recieved it so it is new to me.

Thx

[drewwpb]

lance...I would post a screen shot of mine but I have no idea how you do that.....Anyway from looking at yours Norton Optimization Wizard is NOT installed , Norton WinDoctor fixes problems within Windows and Yes it fixes registry problems but it is not what you and I are talking about...Run the Norton Setup again and go to the Installation Type it will default to "Typical" click next then highlight Norton Utilities then click "Customize" look for Norton Optimization Wizard and put a check there , finish the install then see if it is there, it should be between Norton Disk Doctor and Norton System Doctor on your screenshot...Let me know ............

Drew...

[kismatic]

Here is a Reg Defragmenter that I use To Use, tell me if its useful

http://talismanic.net/codeworld/downloads/RegCompact1.0.exe

[lance-tek]

kismatic-

do a scan for webhancer and see what comes up. I just found it on my system and if you got it, then it is from that proggy you just told me about. It is spyware regardless.

[kismatic]

Nope I dont have that

[Micro]

You're not going to find an "Optimization Wizard".
It's a Win9x app only.:cool:

[Lobo]

To post screenshot, hit on keyboard Ctrl & c, in reply box hit Ctrl & v, to put contents in box:) :)

[lance-tek]

Micro-

thanx for the clarification :)

Lobo-

what the heck are you talkin about? to put a screenshot on here you have to upload it to a URL then use the ]IMG] URL to the image[/IMG[ tags to copy it to the reply box.

not saying you are wrong, just that this is the only way I can get an IMG into here.

If that way that you said does work then, I appologize :) but as of yet the only way for me to get one on here is to upload it to a URL then bring the image addy and put it inside of IMG tags.

[Lobo]

Micro-

thanx for the clarification

Lobo-

what the heck are you talkin about? to put a screenshot on here you have to upload it to a URL then use the ]IMG] URL to the image[/IMG[ tags to copy it to the reply box.

not saying you are wrong, just that this is the only way I can get an IMG into here.

If that way that you said does work then, I appologize but as of yet the only way for me to get one on here is to upload it to a URL then bring the image addy and put it inside of IMG tags.



If you highlight what you want to copy, hit Ctrl & c, then in box hit Ctrl & v, this is what happens:) :)

[SSJ4_Gojita]

thanks

[drewwpb]

Lance....so when you reran the Norton Setup the Norton Optimization Wizard was greyed out ? Micro said it's a Win9x app only, but I went looking around the Norton site they have error fixes for Win Me and the Norton Optimization Wizard ??? I'm just curious because my brother bought NSW 2001 and one of his PC's has Win Me....

[Micro]

Originally posted by drewwpb
Lance....so when you reran the Norton Setup the Norton Optimization Wizard was greyed out ? Micro said it's a Win9x app only, but I went looking around the Norton site they have error fixes for Win Me and the Norton Optimization Wizard ??? I'm just curious because my brother bought NSW 2001 and one of his PC's has Win Me....

Win9x = Win95 (all versions), Win98 (all versions), WinME

Unless he's changed OS's recently, Lance was running Win2k.

On a Win2k install, only the portion of Norton Utilities (which is where the Optimization Wizard comes from) that is available for Win2k even appears. A separate install is generated for each OS by the msi installer. You can see the differences in what is installable here -

http://www.symantec.com/nu/nu_9x/features.html :cool:

[drewwpb]

Thanks Micro for clearing that up....He didn't tell me whay OS he was using...:D

[Micro]

Originally posted by drewwpb
Thanks Micro for clearing that up....He didn't tell me whay OS he was using...:D

Well, uhh, hmm, it's in his sig file in all his posts.
;)

[jeremyboycool]

Hey lobo so i wnat only explor and systray running right??
Cause i have a promble when i shut down eveythigs teles via the ctrl+alt+del. sometimes it works somethimes when i try to connnect useing my dial up i get a 718 error and sometimes it connect but ie wont display a page. what a m i shuting down that i need to keep open??:confused:

[Lobo]

I don't shut down anything with ctrl + alt+del, leave it alone
:)

[drewwpb]

Well, uhh, hmm, it's in his sig file in all his posts.

Really....don't read em...

[Lobo]

I said shut down running programs, nothing about Ctrl+alt+del:)

[lance-tek]

he just means go to the task bar and right click all the running apps and exit them.


:D