Vista/2008 Tweaks
I've been running Windows Server 2008 as a workstation for a few months now, and I can join the countless others who agree that this is Microsoft's best desktop OS ever. In the same way that Windows 2000 was far more stable than 98 and 2003 was more stable than XP, 2008 beats out Vista with optimized network and disk drivers, resulting in 5-10% performance bumps across the board.
Increase the Filesystem Memory Cache Size in Vista
How-To-Geek does some sleuthing into the largely undocumented regkey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
Double-click on the NtfsMemoryUsage key on the right-hand side and change the value to 2. Here's the available values:
- Not Set: 0
- Set to Default: 1
- Increase Cache: 2
More tweaks to come. Send me any that you've found to work for you.