
A Principled Technologies sizing guide 23
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide
o Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol Service
o UPnP Host Service
o Volume Shadow Copy Service
o Windows Backup
o Windows Firewall
Optimize the Registry
o RegScrub.exe – Registry Cleaner
o NTRegOpt.exe – Registry Optimizer, removing white space in registry
Run disk cleanup
Defrag the HDD
Delete all event logs
Make the User profile the Default Profile
General OS environment optimizations
Set Pagefile to a static size of 16 MB
Change the default Windows Theme to “Basic”
Adjust visual effects for “Best Performance”
Enable ClearType Fonts
Turn off Windows Security Center
Turn off Automatic Computer Maintenance
Disable “Allow users to browse for troubleshooters”
Disable “Allow troubleshooting to begin immediately when started”
Increase Service Startup Timeout
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control]
"ServicesPipeTimeout"=dword:0002bf20
Hide Hard Error Messages
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows]
"ErrorMode"=dword:00000002
Disable CIFS Change Notifications
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoRemoteRecursiveEvents"=dword:00000001
Filesystem optimizations
Disable NTFS "Last Accessed" option
"fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1" (and reboot)
Disable Windows Prefetcher
Edit"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory
Management\PrefetchParameters\EnablePrefetcher]"
Komentarze do niniejszej Instrukcji