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Do you remember 'Black Viper' ?


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Do you guys remember 'Black Viper' and his windows tweaking guides that were so talked about during XP's prime? How he would list all the services that could be stopped and/or disabled to squeeze every inch of performance out of your machine whilst in the OS?

www.blackviper.com - he's still around and the reason I bring it up is he's still making these tweak guides even for windows 7 sp1

Most systems today are i7 2600k's with between 8-16gb's of RAM loaded. My question to you all is do you think these tweaks are even beneficial anymore now a days. Disabling indexing to speed up explorer responsiveness? Setting a fixed pagefile size to help with performance? The list goes on...

What do you guys think?

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I was actually thinking about the Black Viper website the other day. I was wondering if he was still around. I loved his process guides for Windows XP. Nice to know that he's still alive and kicking :p

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Most systems today are i7 2600k's with between 8-16gb's of RAM loaded. My question to you all is do you think these tweaks are even beneficial anymore now a days. Disabling indexing to speed up explorer responsiveness? Setting a fixed pagefile size to help with performance? The list goes on...

Really? Where did you get that from?

Even if that were true, these tweaks are obviously aimed at improving speed on low-end systems.

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Ha. If you say so.

Yeah, I agree. I am running a Core2Duo Q6600. Albeit it does have 8GB of RAM and an SSD, so a bit better than some computers but not anywhere close to a core i7 Sandy Bridge machine.

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I still use his registry files every time I re-install Windows. I don't expect miracles, but every little tweak helps, and I trust him.

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I used to use his guides during XP, but not once I was able to afford a better PC and Vista/7 came out I felt there was no use for his guides anymore.

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I mentioning what I did about "most systems" thinking there were mainly hardware enthusiasts on this side of neowin. I guess it was a little far stretched. I've been spending too much time in overclockers.net and hardocp. a good majority of their users are on rigs like that.

needless to say my question would be assuming those were your specs and you all pretty much agree, no, the tweaks wouldn't help such a high end system like they used to help windows xp machines of 10 years ago.

thought maybe the tweaks would stay relative. i guess Microsoft has lowered the ceiling to most software optimizations like that granting such a boon.

thanks for your response guys.

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Like most others before and I imagine a couple after this, I disagree with your "most systems..." quote.

On topic, weirdly I do remember the name and have seen it posted on here a couple of times way back when.

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