Note, these
are my very personal preferences at this time (November 4, 2010), your
preferences may differ. This is a
document in progress. Please feed back
to me any additional information that you may find
Tuning
Windows 7 64 (I have the Professional version) other versions may have more or
less features. When I start this tuning
there are at least 38 or more processes running (some have reported as high as
70) just from Windows 7 on boot up in the Task Manager. Remember, these options below are my personal
preferences and choices.
1.
Install/update graphics driver as
necessary, and if you need special disk controller drivers install them as
well.
2.
My
next step is to double left click on Computer to open it. Then sequentially right click on each drive
and select Properties and uncheck “Allow Indexing ….. for fast file searching”.
3.
For
each of the following you use the Control Panel, after bringing up the default
Control Panel go to the upper right corner and select View By/Small Icons for
convenience in the rest of the procedure.
4.
Select
User Account and then Change User Account Control Settings and move the setting
to never notify. This will simplify the
following steps and can be set back later if you so desire.
5.
Select
Performance Information and Tools
a. Select Adjust Visual Effects and
check Adjust For Best Performance
b. Select Adjust Indexing Options/Modify
uncheck all
c. Select Adjust Power Settings select
Create Power Plan and choose High Performance.
Also in this under Create Power Plan select your personal preferences
for the display and computer. I like my
editing system never to go to Sleep and my screen to stay on for at least an
hour.
6.
Select
Windows Firewall and then Turn Windows Firewall on or off. (For me this is a video editing computer and
not an email or Internet cruising machine.)
I turn it off, also Home or Work turn off and Public Network off
7.
Select
Programs & Features and then Turn Features On or Off. Turn off things like Tablet PC Components and
Windows Gadget Platform. Here is what my
list looks like.
1.
Before
leaving Programs and Features, I turn off nVidia PhysX
and 3D (neither are necessary for Premiere Pro) by
removing the drivers that you find nVidia has installed.
2.
Close
the control Panel
3.
Go
to Computer and right click on it and select Manager and then Services
4.
Continue
by turning off or modifying specific other services. I have an initial list of 21 changes to
services now.
1.
Adaptive
Brightness
2.
BitLocker Encryption
3.
Bluetooth
support
4.
Cryptographic
Services (set this to Manual)
5.
Fax
6.
Homegroup Listener (These two
are optional unless you have multiple Win 7 systems that may require them)
7.
Homegroup Provider
8.
Microsoft
iSCSI Initiator
9.
Parental
Controls
10.
Remote
Access Audio Video Experience
11.
Remote
Access Auto connection Manager
12.
Remote
Desktop Configuration
13.
Remote
Desktop Services
14.
Remote
Desktop Services User Mode Port Redirector
15.
Remote
Registry
16.
Superfetch
17.
Tablet
PC Input Service
18.
Windows
Biometric Service
19.
20.
Windows
Media Center Scheduler Service
21.
Windows
Media Player Network Sharing Service
One last step that I
do is go to a cmd prompt and
turn off Hibernation. With the prompt up
type in “powercfg –h off” of course with out the
quote marks. This will free up (after
next reboot) disk space on your OS boot disk equal to the size of your RAM.
Bill Gehrke
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