Huge Windows Performance Tip! - Page 2 - Ajarn Forum

dexter · 11th May 2008, 18:31

^ Drivers I uninstalled consisted of: Disk Drives-10 (had a few different HDs), DVD/CD-ROM drives-8 (had a few of those too), Non-Plug and Play Drivers-20 (plenty of old AV drivers and True Acronis drivers in there), Sound Video and Game Controller-6 (plenty of Microsoft garbage in there), Storage volume shadow copies-10, Storage Volumes-10, Universal Serial Bus controllers-9.

All those were greyed out of course.

jonny danger · 13th May 2008, 12:27

Why not delete the system 32 folder. You're bound to get all those nasty guys off your computer that way.

dexter · 13th May 2008, 12:39

^ Thanks for the tip mate, I'll do that right now you cnut

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Whitey · 14th May 2008, 02:23

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Originally Posted by hvc

How's v. 8.04 doing? I've downloaded and burned it but I'm a bit too short on computers atm to try it out.

8.04 is a step up, more stability and more features, but it's not a huge jump from 7.10.

About the Windows Registry: Ubuntu doesn't have a registry. It just has easy to work on config files in the /etc directory. That's the way it should be.

hvc · 14th May 2008, 04:29

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Originally Posted by Whitey

It just has easy to work on config files in the /etc directory. That's the way it should be...

... and there's always a relatively fast and easy way to restore things.

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Originally Posted by dexter

^ Thanks for the tip mate, I'll do that right now you cnut

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JD is of course wrong here. It's not that easy to delete the registry, you would have to go into DOS on boot up.

Your system looks more like format and re-install (XP of course

). I'll ask on another forum if somebody has had the same experience like you on their Vista machines. To me it looks like a matter of fooling around but not cleaning up afterwards or Vista is just that dumb.

trep · 14th May 2008, 07:48

Won't deleting system32 folder throw a bunch "file in use, cannot be deleted" errors?

re_fuse · 14th May 2008, 07:51

Not if you do it in safe mode

It aint safe mode because you can delete all your critical windows dlls

pumpuiyai · 15th June 2008, 22:31

Doesn't deleting the system32 folder cause your computer to disappear?

theanimaster · 16th June 2008, 11:38

your computer will still be there alright. But your OS won't.