2 ways to greatly improve your performance

[freakyflow]

I did this because my comp sucks but it prob also very useful for peeps with nice rigs. I use win xp pro not sure if step 2 is possible on vista. There are tons other posts, resources around but few people seem to do these 2 and they help a ton.


1. Use a commercial defrag program. All those bliz patches and mpq files clog up your harddrive like a dirtty toilet. The windows defrag is a piece of junk.

I'd recommend Perfectdisk PerfectDisk Blog: World of Warcraft -- defrag your MPQ files

Or o&o defrag O&O Software - Creating Solutions


2. Boot wow using a gaming profile instead of your default login, basically follow this awesome guide
Tweak XP for Gaming « Red Chaos’ PC Tech & Gaming

[Arthos]

Looks good. Going to try this out

[riley211]

nice man

[w00ty]

The defrag part is quite common sense, but the guide looks good.
Too bad i use vista

[IlluzionE]

+REP for you =]

[Hypemaster]

Nice guide. Most people never defrag and this slows down your pc bigtime.

+Rep

[TehZ]

can you post link for defrag thingys download page? I tried looking in the site but I didnt find. rep+
if you do

[freakyflow]

The defrag thing like most tweaks is obvious, whats not obvious to a lot of users is that perfect disk actually is somewhat adjusted to work with all those bliz mpq files before and after a large patch. O&O is also very complete defrager.

Most users use the defualt windows defrag and it just doesnt compare to these 2 commercial products. I tested them and its a huge differance.

if your looking for a copy id recommend a search engine like FilesTube.com - Every search is a direct hit - file search engine or
FileShare Search Engine

[nigthy]

Nice one! (Rep me) xD

[Scerate]

The defrag part is quite common sense, but the guide looks good.
Too bad i use vista

you can speed up vista a little bit by using some simple tricks like:

1. (Enable DualCore Support for Boot - Vista uses DualCore Automatically but only when it gets on the Desktop - With this trick you activate DualCore during the first LoadingScreen)

Start - "in the Search line type: "msconfig" "
then a window appears. Click there on Start then Advanced Options.
Then you should see there Processorscount (or something like that im owning the German Vista x64 so i dunno the word exactly) Change it to 2, apply everything and then reboot.

2. (a little Bit faster booting cause we deactivate DualMonitors)

goto Start -> Control Panel -> (Set there the Classic View Option on the left side) Administrative Tools (something like that, the Icon should look like a gearwheel with a checked window)

Then goto Planing (its a icon with a clock)
then goto "Microsoft -> Windows -> MobilePC" and on the right side you should see TMM click on it and then on the right window hit "Deactivate"

This should give you a little PerformanceBoost + a little faster Startup

[shadowvamp5]

Nice man alot of people need this, I already do this (need to use my defrager tonight) But I think wrong section, but hey more populatrity