Optimize performance
Windows Server 2008 to Workstation Manual
To fully convert the Windows Server 2008 into a workstation we have setup that programs will have the best performance in stead of background services.
1. To change the best performance setting into programs, open Start, right click on Computer and select Properties in the context menu.
2. On the left below Tasks click Advanced system settings. In the Performance section click Settings. After that the window Performance Options shows up. Go to the tab Advanced, select Programs and click OK twice to save these settings.
Tags Server 2008 Workstation
March 27th, 2008 at 1:10
As reghack:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl]
“Win32PrioritySeparation”=dword:00000026
May 1st, 2008 at 6:39
This helped a little after a system restart.
May 11th, 2008 at 7:38
Windows Media player playback “glitching” on Server 2008?
Tell the multimedia class schdiuler that it’s OK to thrrottle background apps to let it play!
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile\SystemResponsiveness
That value is a percentage to dedicate to background tasks - set it to something lower than 100% (default).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684247(VS.85).aspx
June 28th, 2008 at 9:29
I am having a problem with Server 2008, I have been left to use Server because My system is not wanting to run Vista. Anyway when I start and application or Run IE the OS Pushes all 4 cores of my C2Q Q6600 To 100% I Was just wanting to know if this happens to everyone or is it just mine.
Admin: If you open your Task Manager, what process uses all 4 of the cores?
June 30th, 2008 at 9:05
I dont know what you mean Admin, when I open anything it pushes the cores to full, when I open things like IE7, WMP11, Windows Photo Gallery etc, they all bounce into the red
Admin: You can open the Task Manager by typing taskmgr in Start -> Run. If you now go to the Processes tab and sort at the CPU column, you see which process(es) are exhausting your CPU.
July 1st, 2008 at 21:15
the system Idle process seems to be the only one at about 88 to 97 of the CPU, all the rest barely reach 10
Admin: The System Idle Process represents the capacity your processor has left to do things, so ignore that one. However if you think you PC is slower as normal, execute the following commands in Start -> Run -> cmd and copy the contents of the tasklist.txt file to for example http://freetexthost.com/. (don’t worry about the lay-out of your text at that site, because when you view the source of the html all text is fine.)
start tasklist.txt
July 1st, 2008 at 23:19
http://freetexthost.com/pe6sxd4au5 Here is the website, I do notice that IE7 takes up quite abit of memory, but not cpu usage
Admin: Looks normal. If you look at the cputime of ‘System Idle Process’ in comparison to the other processes you see that your pc is idle most of the time. It might help to clean up the AutoStart programs a bit like jusched.exe, realsched.exe, apdproxy.exe and maybe some other processes you don’t need using the Sysinternals Autoruns tool. To compare, here you have my tasklist /v output.
July 17th, 2008 at 7:13
Found out that the way it was spiking was to do with me uninstalling, Hyper-V would have been nice to keep it, but I dont really need it, anyway since uninstalling it, my games dont stutter and the cores dont spike to red when I open up IE7 etc.