[Maximus3D]

Since i been tweaking my machine today i thought i'd share some of the tools i used for this as they do a pretty good job and also links to tweaking other OS:es such as XP64 and Vista for those of you who have untweaked sytems.

Feel free to share your ideas, links and software recommendations here.

TweakUI 64bit
http://www.start64.com/index.php?option ... &Itemid=73

CCleaner
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

Tips on how to boost XP's and Vista's performance
http://forum.ultravnc.info/viewtopic.php?p=42197

TuneXP 1.5 (great program!)
http://www.download.com/TuneXP/3000-208 ... ag=lst-0-1

TweakVI and TweakXP (commercial but good program)
http://www.totalidea.com/content/index.php

Link to tweak programs for XP64
http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php?showtopic=7584

TweakNow PowerPack 2006 (also a good shareware program)
http://www.tweaknow.com/

Links to various tweak tools
http://www.bluechillies.com/list/tweak.html

/ Max

[m-Que]

Thank You, Max!
I've been thinking of tweaking my PC for a veeery long time. It's just that I never have time for it...Same as many other things

[polynurb]

Nice One , Max!

That`s what I can add to the list:

TaskSwitchXP:

http://www.ntwind.com/software/taskswitchxp.html

Speedfan:

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

AutoHotKey:

http://www.autohotkey.com/

*edit

how could I forget this one...

RivaTuner:

http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner

has made my geforce6800ultra and the radeonX1800 really happy



_Daniel

[Maximus3D]

Anytime m-Que be sure you know what you're doing when you start with tweaking as the wrong thing may slowdown your system or make it unstable or in worst case not even start so please be careful.

polynurb: You're welcome and thanks you too, those are some great utils, especially Rivatuner.

Here's a couple more, these aren't exactly tweaking tools but they're useful.

Powerstrip
http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm

Hardware Sensors Monitor
http://www.hmonitor.net/

/ Max

[polynurb]

Cheers Max!

in that respect, here are two free tools I use for file handling:

free MD5 checksum generator:

fastsum:

http://www.fastsum.com/download.php

this one is old but still so helpful if you just can`t find what`s taking up all that space on your Hdd:

sequoiaview:

http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onder ... uoiaview//


..and regarding RivaTuner, you may want to browse through the forum:

http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?f=18

xp32:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=237273

xp64:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=247612

I use Rhino most of the time and things have been running smooth for me



_D

[wagurto]

Thanks Max for the links. From your experience tweaking xp64 what are the benefits or improvements that you have noticed?.

[Maximus3D]

You're welcome wagurto, but unfortuntely i don't even own XP64 so i never tested it and can't recommend any tweaks for it. If it's similar to XP32 then you should be able to use just about the same type of tweaks, tricks and programs on it unless they modify registry entries as i guess that XP64 has a bit different registry compared to XP32.

Maybe some XP64 users can post their suggestions and ideas about this if they know more.

/ Max