Optimizing Windows 2000

Win 2000 optimization In many ways is very similar to win 9x/me, including some of the optimization software can be shared, therefore, may wish to draw on the win 9x/me optimization program and optimization software. Of course, in addition, Win 2000 has some of its own unique optimization measures.

First, choose the right file system

Before you can install Win 2000, you must first decide which file system to select. Improper file system selection will result in Win 2000 not being optimized during running.

The NTFS file system is the recommended file system for Win 2000. NTFS has all the basic features of the FAT file system and has the advantage of fat or FAT32: Files are more secure, have better disk compression, and have a larger supported hard disk capacity. NTFS supports large hard drives up to 2TB, much larger than fat, and as disk capacity increases, NTFS performance is not as low as FAT (the following table is the various file system hard disk partitions and the cluster size relational table). Therefore, if you are installing only Win 2000, it is recommended that you convert an existing partition to NTFS during installation or convert the file system from FAT to NTFS after installation through the Convert.exe program.

Partition size	FAT16 Cluster size	FAT32 Cluster size	NTFS cluster size
512MB to 1GB	16KB	4KB	512bytes
1GB to 2GB	32KB	4KB	512bytes
2GB to 8GB	Not available	4KB	512bytes
8GB to 16GB	Not available	8KB	512bytes
16GB to 32GB	Not available	16KB	512bytes
32GB or above	Not available	32KB	512bytes

Ii. optimizing the execution efficiency of the system

Open the Control Panel → system, the System Properties window appears, select the Advanced tab item, and then click the Performance Options button to appear in the window. There are two options in the Application response area: application and background services. Here you specify how the foreground program shares the CPU processing time with the background program. If you select "Application", the operating system will allocate more CPU processing time to the foreground program, otherwise the system does not distinguish between the foreground and the background, for each under the running process allocated the same amount of CPU processing time. In general, ordinary users can let the foreground program in operation get more CPU processing time, only when the CPU idle to process the background program. For servers, you should select Background services.

Third, turn off the "log" feature

Although Win 2000 has excellent stability, but it is always inevitable. When a serious error occurs in the system, Win 2000 records the error message to help the technician to judge and solve the problem. For our ordinary users, the effect is not very large, in addition, when the system error will also appear intense reading disk phenomenon, so we need to turn off the feature.

You can save about 60K of memory by opening Control Panel → system, appearing in the System features window, selecting the Advanced tab item, and then clicking the "Start and Recover" button to cancel the three check boxes in the circled circle.

In addition, Win 2000 also records application error information through "Dr. IM," which we can also turn off: Run "Drwtsn32.exe" and remove all check boxes outside the "visual notice" in the "Options" section, which prevents "Dr. Watson" Create a pet big. DMP log file and quickly close the program when it goes wrong.

Four, delete the log file

Although we have closed the win 2000 log, the log files generated by Win 2000 are stored somewhere on the hard drive, so we should try to remove them. Turn on the control Panel → administrative tools → event viewer, and see! How many log files are there? To run the clear all Events command on the Action menu, a warning box appears: ask if you want to save the log file, and of course choose "No". In addition, delete all log files generated by "Watson" in the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\DrWatson Directory.

Five, uninstall the useless components

When you install Windows 2000, the installer does not allow us to choose the components that need to be installed, and "without authorization" to add some unnecessary programs in the system, waste a limited amount of hard disk space, but in the Control Panel "Add/Remove program" but not to their traces, If the folder in which the program is directly removed will leave a lot of junk information in the registry. You can actually uninstall them using the following methods.

Find the "Winnt\inf\sysoc.inf" file, which, by default, is a hidden property file (folder), so you have to make them appear: In the File Manager, select tools → folder options → view, and select Show hidden files or folders Item to find and open the Sysoc.inf file.

After the file is opened, find "; Old base Components ", change the games=ocgen.dll,ocentry,games.inf,hide,7 to games=ocgen.dll,ocentry,games.inf,,7, according to the method, Delete the "HIDE" of all the fields below to save the modified results.

Now go to the Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, you can uninstall the "game", "Auxiliary Tools", "WordPad", "multimedia" and other components. However, this method does not uninstall the "OE", "fax", "image processing" of these chicken-style components. 、

As for other optimizations, refer to the Windows 98/me optimization, and finally remind you not to log on as an administrator in your daily work, because in Win 2000 the administrator has the most complete, The most thorough control ability, in this state the entire system's defense ability is the weakest, not only the mistake operation to the system damage is bigger, but also for the virus (Trojan horse) to provide the format hard disk, deletes the file the possibility. So, to be safe, build a regular user!