Windows 7 tweaks anyone?

Well, I've got a "tweak" per se, if you own an asus board and you loaded (or maybe not) any utilities.
I found an asus app attached to the windows scheduling thingy. deleted it.

I would just really like to know, what tweaks are there that eliminate all the windows bloat that was written to protect us from ourselves and loved ones. Such as anything to do with "permissions".

Anybody? 

timidi,

the only other tweak is to set your power plan to custom and go through every
option (there are a few) to make sure your system is running at full tilt and things like
HD's etc don't get switched off.

I've found that messing around with Win7 services can really make things unstable,
my advice? Do the UAC and Power Plan and leave everything else as is.

Good luck! =)

You can turn off the HD sleep setting, just keep arrowing down until you get to "Never".  Aero is just bling and an unnecessary resource hog... I disabled it.  Strange that your power plan would keep changing on you.  Try creating your own custom plan and see if it still does that.

Another tweak you'd want to do is disable hibernation.  It's enabled by default and if you look at the root of your C: drive you will see the file called "hiberfil.sys" (if you have show hidden files enabled and hide protected operating system files disabled) and it'll be rather large depending on the size of your memory.  To disable this, go into a command prompt (run as administrator if UAC is on) and type:  powercfg -h off

And, I don't get all the security and administrator crap.

 
Um yesssss....its working....the doubt....the inconvenience...soon they will be mine.
 
MS has for years produced a very security-weak by default set of operating systems for which it has been rightfully criticized. Actually the security stuff used to be difficult to understand too, but most of it was never used by the average user. And the black hats loved it.
 
For a single user in a non-networked environment, the administrator/permissions thing makes more sense if you realize that it is not the person that needs the permission, but the account, and not just to view the person's files, but to run any applicatons that are permitted to run under that account. So if you happen to acquire a piece of malware by whatever means that needs to install or run some nasty process on your machine, and it finds itself running under an unprotected (actually a fully permitted) account, it will have no problem working its nefarious magic. It will acquire/inherit the permissions from the user as it were, and find itself unopposed. If it does not have/inherit/acquire permission to run from the user, it will not run/install/f**k up your machine. If a process needs a permission that it does not have, the system will ask you for that permission. It is called User Account Control--not a bad concept in most cases--for a reason.
 
There is very little legitimate activity that your computer needs to run, that will not run under the appropriate permissions. Some old software might have problems, but you can set that software to always run as administrator with a little (tiny tiny tiny) bit of effort. Doing so does not confer a similar level of immunity to other programs. It does not slow down your machine etc. to have appropriate permission levels. It does provide substantial protection from monsters devouring your system.
 
 

The only other tweak that springs to mind is core parking (for quad core)

chilldanny


The only other tweak that springs to mind is core parking (for quad core)

Sorry for the ignorance but, what is that and where do I get it and what do I do with it when I get it?
I have an i7 2600k.
Thanks

chilldanny


No worries =)

Have a read through this:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?&m=1861804&high=core+parking&mpage=1

Some say it's worth it, others say it's not.
I did it because it evened out core usage on large cpu intensive projects,
and again, it's something that Cakewalk themselves have advised in certain
circumstances.

Hey Dan. I tried reading that and my eyeballs sort of rolled backed in my head and started spinning around.
Could you just tell me what to do and how to do it? Thanks. I can see my first core is taking the brunt of the pounding.

I pretty much agree fireberd.

However, there are many annoyances with Win 7. Especially things like the UAC. The whole UAC 'thing' is what windows is all about. It's more of a protection system than an OS anymore. So, I'm simply looking mainly for the tweaks that disable all the crap that makes running a computer an aggravation. 

I still get all kinds of warnings about doing this and that, even with the UAC slider all the way down.

Lately, I was trying to unzip a file from a DVD and it kept coming up with some sort of "this is not encrypted" message, then failure. I moved the zip to my MAC, unzipped it and networked it back to the PC unzipped. What a pain.

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I guess I consider "tweaks" as something different.  I don't consider turning off UAC as a "tweak" or power settings, etc.

I look at a "tweak" more as messing with the system such as changing a Registry setting, etc.

"timidi"
JC, that's a pretty well documented tweak.

Which one are you talking about? And if it's the one I think... (priority to background services) you've got to be kidding me.

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Thanks scott. It's running better already. Had some trouble with my DVD player (At least the DVD player was the symptom) 
and it seems to be working better. .:)

here's the link from RME I mentioned:
http://www.rme-audio.de/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5462

(the 2nd link).