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.
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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
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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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