Windows 7 Club

[EastCoasthandle]

The position of the windows is not restored correctly after you turn on the "Restore previous folder windows at logon" feature on a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer

[EastCoasthandle]

The user created shortcut actually expedites any pending idle tasks. The shortcut you create is used by placing the following:
%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks
then give it a name. You can read more about it here. As for using it with win7? I've not seen any difference using it.

Edit:
OK, I noticed that the memory usage has dropped a bit after a few minutes. However, I cannot say if it was because of that or not because it took so long.

[overclocking101]

does anyone have any info on what SP1 beta actually improves?? I have it downloaded but have seen a few reports of blue screens etc and really dont want to risk fucking up my win7 install

[Athlonite]

from what I've read it looks to be mostly just a wrap up of all the security and update packages released so far including the hotfix updates

[choppy]

anybody have an @ac.uk email address that i can 'borrow' for 5 minute.

basically windows 7 is going for £30 to students only and all you ahve to provide is the email address to which MS send you the link to redeem the offer. i'm after another copy of W7 so im hoping a nice person can help me out :-)

[gunsmoke]

Originally Posted by choppy

anybody have an @ac.uk email address that i can 'borrow' for 5 minute.

basically windows 7 is going for £30 to students only and all you ahve to provide is the email address to which MS send you the link to redeem the offer. i'm after another copy of W7 so im hoping a nice person can help me out :-)

try gmx.com e.mail; easy two set up in 5 mins on line

[remixedcat]

I'm soon to join the club around x-mas when I get my SSD!!!!!

[casual swift]

So I'm running vista 64 currently... there's a guy I know whos selling a windows 7 upgrade disk for $90. Now personally I don't have TOO many issues with vista 64.

If you were me, would you spend the $90 and upgrade or not?

[Athlonite]

I'd spend the 90 bucks but do an clean install upgrade are so often fraught with problems

[erixx]

for that money you can buy it at a computer store, WTF 'a guy' !!!!! hahaha

(here i can)

[casual swift]

Originally Posted by erixx

for that money you can buy it at a computer store, WTF 'a guy' !!!!! hahaha

(here i can)

Well not here... I'm looking at 130ish.

[EastCoasthandle]

The Reason & Explanation
Is your quad core (or more) CPU is working as it should on you PC (not laptop)? There is one thing you need to check to see if it is before you decided to make any registry tweak found later in this post.

1. For win7 users open up Resource Monitor (Click on Start, type Resource Monitor in the search box)
2. Tab over to CPU and look at 2 things:

• A. The CPU - Total Graph in the upper right corner. Do you see a blue line?
  
  
  
  
• B. Maximum Frequency. Located at the top. It is right of center. Does it read 100% or something else?
  
  

Take note of this at desktop (w/o anything running in the background). Next, start a game (in window mode) and observe the max frequency & graph for a blue line. If you get 100% or so you should stop here and disregard the tweak below. However, if you are seeing something like 80%, 70%, etc in game, at desktop this maybe of interest. Also, if you notice that the games you play are not as smooth as they should be then disabling any cpu throttling maybe of some help. Keep in mind this tweak is not intended to fix other issues that maybe contributing (or the actual cause) of your problem. So keep that in mind. Below is another illustration as to what you are looking for before making any decisions on tweaking the registry:






The Tweak
What you do is open up regedit and do a search for 0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583 using Edit, Find (found more then once). Within each of those keys you will find ValueMax with a value of 100. You want to change that value to 0. Just right click on 'ValueMax', select Modify:



and change from 100 to 0 in the Value Data box:


Hit the F3 key to find the next one until all have been found. Once completed you exit and shut down the PC. Wait a moment then reboot the PC (do not reboot but a cold boot).


This is just a test to see if things improve on you PC (not laptop). It's up to you if you want to keep this tweak or not. This is not for everyone to try just to be trying. Also, if you want to revert the settings back to default you can edit ValueMax. You right click on ValueMax, choose 'Modify':



and select 'Decimal' and input 100 in the Value Data box:

Then find the next one until the search is complete.

Once completed you exit and shut down the PC. Wait a moment then reboot the PC (do not reboot but a cold boot).


Core Parking
Watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl3u9eiskM4
(Keep in mind this video is discussing the removal of core parking. A parked core means that the core is inactive and would read 'parked' in the resource monitor CPU tab's graph. This reduces power consumption and reduces heat, etc. This is not why I'm showing you this tweak. This tweak can also provide you with 100% CPU maximum frequency)

[streetfighter 2]

Wouldn't this also work?

powercfg -setacvalueindex scheme_current sub_processor bc5038f7-23e0-4960-96da-33abaf5935ec 100

powercfg -setactive scheme_current

(source)

[EastCoasthandle]

I want to also add the TLB removal program (run it using administrator) that was posted in another forum for AMD CPU users. One has to add it to task scheduler so it starts up with the OS. People have been posting some noticeable improvements with the TLB patch disabled for those with AMD CPUs that don't have the TLB bug. From what I'm reading win7 (including SP1) is providing the TLB patch as part of the OS. That program removes it and some are seeing performance improvements. I'm not sure if it matters if you have the TLB option in the bios though.







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Originally Posted by streetfighter 2

Wouldn't this also work?

powercfg -setacvalueindex scheme_current sub_processor bc5038f7-23e0-4960-96da-33abaf5935ec 100

powercfg -setactive scheme_current

(source)

I noticed that posted before but never found a bc5038f7-23e0-4960-96da-33abaf5935ec key in the registry, [shrug]. I took it to be something for win2008.

[streetfighter 2]

Originally Posted by EastCoasthandle

I noticed that posted before but never found a bc5038f7-23e0-4960-96da-33abaf5935ec key in the registry, [shrug]. I took it to be something for win2008.

Dunno.

If you run:

powercfg /q

Then inspect the (lengthy) output you'll see (or something similar):

Power Setting GUID: bc5038f7-23e0-4960-96da-33abaf5935ec  (Maximum processor state)
      Minimum Possible Setting: 0x00000000
      Maximum Possible Setting: 0x00000064
      Possible Settings increment: 0x00000001
      Possible Settings units: %
    Current AC Power Setting Index: 0x00000019
    Current DC Power Setting Index: 0x00000064

Furthermore from the Windows 7/2008 PPM doc:

Originally Written in Processor Power Management in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Core Parking is supported only on Windows Server 2008 R2. However, the Core Parking algorithm and infrastructure is also used to balance processor performance between logical processors on Windows 7 client systems with processors that include Intel Hyper-Threading Technology.

So I guess it doesn't work for non-HT processors in Windows 7.

[EastCoasthandle]

It's that balancing I'm concerned about. What that implies is that CP'ing doesn't have to show a core actually parked in order for it to be "balancing" the cores. Which was why I suggested users to look at the CPU maximum frequency 1st before going any further. Thanks for the info.

[entropy13]

I finally have Windows 7 (Home Premium 64-bit). Getting the games again is a big PITA though because my internet suddenly decides to just work properly today (instead of two days ago).

[WhiteLotus]

Question (not a troll) but has anyone heard anything about W8?

[Athlonite]

code name "Vail" we should be seeing an public beta or an RC later this year maybe

[entropy13]

Originally Posted by WhiteLotus

Question (not a troll) but has anyone heard anything about W8?

There's a supposed "W8 AppStore" screenshot making the rounds.

[Mussels]

Originally Posted by EastCoasthandle

I want to also add the TLB removal program (run it using administrator) that was posted in another forum for AMD CPU users. One has to add it to task scheduler so it starts up with the OS. People have been posting some noticeable improvements with the TBL patch disabled for those with AMD CPUs that don't have the TBL bug. From what I'm reading win7 (including SP1) is providing the TBL patch as part of the OS. That program removes it and some are seeing performance improvements. I'm not sure if it matters if you have the TBL option in the bios though.

its TLB, not TBL. you typod that like a dozen times XD

[entropy13]

F**k yeah I now have the Nanami Madobe theme lol

[EastCoasthandle]

Window 7 has a built in program called Driver Verifier. This program allows you to identify any driver related issues with win7. You can watch this video to get an idea of how it works. All you do is type verifier at Start's search box and follow the instructions. But once you figure out the problem you want to disable it by typing verifier /reset in the 'run box' (Start then click on Run...if not enabled you have to right click on Start icon/properties > Start Menu tab > Customize button > Check box for Run Command > OK > Apply) or else it will continue to run every time you boot.

[entropy13]

Wow I was the previous latest post