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@AEDan1977 wrote:

Thanks!

Yea I am running rainmeter, objectdock, and blend 2.0 for a theme and I manually modified the ExploreFrame.dll’s with a resediter for Windows Server 2008 R2 to have the modified buttons and such as only a dll for windows 7 was provided and gave all sorts of issues.

Thanks about the Core i7 thing, and as far as the boot optimization goes do I need to do that? My primary boot drive is a Corsair SSD, not a regular hard disk.

– Dan

Oh then no. R2 should already optimized for your SSD. Mufunyo is correct. Boot optimization is designed for conventional HDDs with read/write heads.

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@AEDan1977 wrote:

Thanks!

Yea I am running rainmeter, objectdock, and blend 2.0 for a theme and I manually modified the ExploreFrame.dll’s with a resediter for Windows Server 2008 R2 to have the modified buttons and such as only a dll for windows 7 was provided and gave all sorts of issues.

Thanks about the Core i7 thing, and as far as the boot optimization goes do I need to do that? My primary boot drive is a Corsair SSD, not a regular hard disk.

– Dan

Oh then no. R2 should already optimized for your SSD.

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Looks sweet man! I see you got Rainmeter and Rocket Dock for your custom UI look. Be sure to check out how to enable Boot Optimization from my YouTube channel, that should help speed up your application responsiveness.

http://www.youtube.com/user/win2008workstation?feature=mhum#p/u/7/LQJQT_kmbXA

Also, be sure to disable “core parking” on your i7 machine to further improve your workstation experience. Disabling core parking can help with CPU intensive tasks like video rendering or watching a blu ray movie in 1080p.

How to disable core parking: http://ultimatecomputers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3644

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As for your Windows Aero issue…

1. Verify that the themes service is running

Open command prompt and type:

sc query themes

Under “state” make sure it says RUNNING

Also verify that Desktop Window Manager Session Manager (AERO service) is running

sc query uxsms

Under “state” make sure it says RUNNING

2. Is your performance options set to “Adjust for best appearance”?

Click start, right-click Computer and choose Properties. Next go to Advanced System Settings.
Under performance choose Settings…

Change to Adjust for best appearance.

For a potential quick fix, you could try creating another user account and logging into it, then
seeing if you can enable a Aero theme in “Personalization”

@Enigma wrote:

A few other unrelated issues i am having is that the sound does not seem to be as good as it was when 7 was still installed. just yesterday i was playing world of warcraft and watching Fast and Furious Fast Five (2011 release) with a few friends and they were all amazed at the sound quality. but after doing the same things on 2008 r2 and watching vids on youtube, the sound just seems alot lower and tinnier than it was before. maybe its my imagination but im sure its not. i have tried modifying the settings for my sound hardware in Control Panel and maxxed the volume controls up to 100%, still no improvement. Does Server have known issues with audio playback?

Try the following fixes:

1. Disabling core parking on your core i7 should noticably speed up performance on your R2 machine. A forum user named Hypernova discovered this issue a few years back. The following fix helped improve the performance of his i7 machine running R2.

How to disable core parking: http://ultimatecomputers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3644

Hypernova’s issue: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1112

2. Enable sound acceleration

[youtube:3vvpss6y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLW5hR1PhDw[/youtube:3vvpss6y]

3. Prioritize more CPU power to Multimedia tasks by creating the following registry key and importing it into your registry.

*****COPY EVERYTHING BELOW THIS LINE****

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionMultimediaSystemProfile]
“SystemResponsiveness”=dword:00000014

***** COPY EVERYTHING ABOVE THIS LINE ***

Save file as audiostutterfix.reg or something appropriate. Then double click on fix to open it and import it into your registry.

The following above tweaks should improve your sound quality.

@Enigma wrote:

Would also like to know about some good software for playing BluRay quality discs and files at true HD 1080p quality, since my hardware has full HD support for video and audio. VLC Media Player does not seem to be able to do the job, neither can Windows Media Player. at least not in HD quality anyways.

Corel WinDVD and Cyberlink’s PowerDVD are the only two that come to mind when I think of 1080P blu ray playback. Both very good.

@Enigma wrote:

How can i enable the Sleep and Hibernate options in the Start Menu? i have noticed that 7 has them but Server sems to lack them.

Cool thanks for reminding me. I was going to make a tutorial on how to do this months ago but I completely forgot. HAHA. Here you go!

[youtube:3vvpss6y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z-hrtTcMR8[/youtube:3vvpss6y]

@Enigma wrote:

Last question, is it better to simply install the drivers that are provided on the ASUS website, or should i go directly to the actual makers of the internal devices themselves? i know that sometimes the latter will have more recent driver versions than the OEM manufacturers, although the OEM drivers do tend to be more optimized for the specific machine, whereas the latter is more generalized. i also know how difficult it can be to find drivers that work correctly on 2008/2008 R2 in particular. I’m just wondering since the ones on the disc installed fine.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

I always think that it is best to go directly to the manufacture of the chip (NVIDIA, ATI, Intel, etc) rather than the OEMs website because you cannot always assume that they have the latest driver available, especially when your product begins to end its retail shelf life. For example my Dell Latitude E5400 laptop used to have my graphics driver up to date when Vista came out but when 7 came out they only released a few updated versions and they haven’t updated my graphics driver for like 2 years now. I go to the Intel website for my chipset and they have made like 5 revisions since Dell’s last update! Just my opinion, but i’ve always preferred to go directly to manufacture.

However I will say that OEMs are very useful for locating drivers on older machines in which you cannot easily locate the model of the hardware that is installed. For example the audio could be integrated on the board and in device manager you just see “High Definition Audio Device” with no clue about what “exact” type it is… so what I usually do is if I can locate the OEM model of the laptop, for example an HP DV1000, all i have to do is go to HP.com and locate the model “hp dv1000” and find out either in the product specifications or the software drivers download page what exact audio driver it is.

I partly agree with your assessment that OEM drivers are optimized for your machine, but the source code is ultimately derived from the manufacture so no matter what way you put it, the “OEM driver” is just a manufacture driver sprinkled with software goodies to make it more user friendly. For example my dell driver for my laptop came with a Dell WiFi connect utility to easily manage WIFI connections, although I prefer to do so in default Windows. It’s usually hit or miss. Most of the times though, I just prefer the basic driver only, no software packages.

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@Bluebird wrote:

I would use boot optimization, but I only like to use things designed for the system. I done the days of enabling tweaks and stuff made by people, I like to use things that have been designed for the OS so that I get the most stable system.

If you want to convert Windows Server into a workstation, then I would say this is a must! Server 2008 R2 has the capability to do so, it just requires Superfetch and a few registry tweaks. Well worth the effort as you should see tangible gains in performance.

@Bluebird wrote:

IPsec Policy Agent is in manuel mode, but its started every time I start the computer.
Is this needed by the system? It must be starting it for a reason.

Your Comodo Firewall could have triggered an event to start it or a service dependency could have triggered it to start. If you don’t use a VPN, disable it.

@Bluebird wrote:

And these:
IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying Modules
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Link-Layer Topology Discovery Mapper

Disable them.

@Bluebird wrote:

Because I use a basic network(computers connected to a router), turning these off wouldn’t cause problems/security problems?

Turning off the above services would have absolutely no effect on your machine as you are not apart of a domain infrastructure or use a VPN solution. You can safely disable them.

@Bluebird wrote:

Are these services needed?

COM+ Event System —
Task Scheduler
Print spooler
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Windows firewall ( I use Comodo firewall)

COM+ Event System —DO NOT DISABLE. Windows Update depends on this service when it downloads and installs your updates in the background.
Task Scheduler — DO NOT DISABLE. There is so many 3rd party software that use this service to maintenance your software, notify you of updates, perform regularly scheduled scans, etc.
Print spooler — If you do not have a printer installed or use a network attached printer (such as a wireless printer) then disable this service.
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper — This service queries all computers on your network with an IP address and resolves them to their NetBIOS name. The NetBIOS name is simply the computer name of the device. This service is required for you to share files, folders, and network devices such as printers, etc. When you click on start and choose Network a list of computers on your local network will populate. All the computers you see in this window is using NetBIOS. Disable this service and you cannot share anything on your Server using this method.

Windows firewall – Comodo Firewall should have disabled your firewall already. Disable it.

@Bluebird wrote:

Thanks for the help so far.

No prob.

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I strongly recommend you perform a boot optimization on your R2 machine. It has yielded me a 20 second boot time on my Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 machine with 8GB of RAM, and a 250GB 7200RPM drive along with the services tweak I use below.

Boot Optimization + my services tweaked below = 20 second boot

Here is how to enable boot optimization on your R2 machine.

[youtube:2ofc10za]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQJQT_kmbXA[/youtube:2ofc10za]

My recommended services to tweak:

Certificate Propagation – Handles certificates of Smart Card readers. If you do not have a smart card reader then this service can be safely disabled.

Credential Manager – This is a “single sign-on” feature of Windows that allows to save credentials of websites visited, computers authenticated to, etc. This service has been known to eat up some CPU. I would advise you use a 3rd party password manager like Last Pass and disable this service.

IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying Modules – This service provides authentication and encryption services to clients running IPsec, for example someone tunneling through a VPN. If you do not tunnel through a VPN this service then disable this service.

Distributed Link Tracking Client – This service is mostly used in domains. It just ensures that the links between NTFS files on multiple computers are maintained. It is also used by AVG to perform a virus scan on networked computers. Since we have Windows Server 2008 R2 and you are not a domain you can most likely disable this service.

Distributed Transaction Coordinator – This service is used for Message Queuing. If you do not rely on message queuing then I highly recommend you disable this service for not only a performance boost but security reasons as well. This service can be exploited and used to perform a denial of service attack on the remote server.

Encrypting File System – What BitLocker uses to encrypt your drive. Also used for other basic file encryption needs. You can set this service to manual so it is only needed when demanded that way the service is starting up on boot. My recommendation would be to set this service to manual.

Extensible Authentication Protocol – If you do not have a wireless network adapter, use a VPN, or require authentication from your wired NIC you can disable this service.

IP Helper – Provides support for IPv6 over an IPv4 network using transition technologies such as 6to4, ISATAP, Teredo, etc.) If you are strictly on a IPv4 network disable this service not only for performance boost but security reasons as well.

IPsec Policy Agent – Used for remote VPN connections. If you don’t use VPN, then disable this service.

Link-Layer Topology Discovery Mapper – This service creates a topology map of all the networked devices on your local network in Network and Sharing Center. If you navigate to Network and Sharing Center at the top right you will see a link called “See full map”. If you disable this service you prevent Windows from making a topology map of your network. As if you couldn’t have simply drawn a topology drawing of your network on a piece of paper LOL! Disable this service!

Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service – I highly doubt you facilitate data transfers over intranets or manage IP-based storage over long distances. If you don’t use a storage area network that depends on this SAN protocol then this service is useless to you. Disable it.

Netlogon – This service should only run when your computer is joined to a domain. But you can disable it if you like provided you never make computer apart of Active Directory.

Network Access Protection Agent – Allows network administrators to control access to network resources based on client’s identity and compliance with corporate governance policy. BLAH. We are not a domain nor have a corporate security policy the size of Texas. Disable this service.

Portable Device Enumerator Service – This service is used by Windows Meida Player to syncronize content to removable devices such as an MP3 player for example. If you do not care or never use this functionality then disable this service.

Problem Reports and Solutions Control Panel Support – If you never use the Problem Reports and Solutions feature nor care for Windows to collect results of problems on your computer then disable this service.

Protected Storage – Most used by Internet Explorer to save your passwords. Another common application is outlook. But to be on the safe side if any other 3rd party utillities rely on this service then my recommendation would be to set this service to manual so atleast it doesn’t start up, but the service can be used when you call upon it.

Remote Registry – Disable this service for security reasons. If you ever need to edit the registry, do it locally.

Resultant Set of Policy Provider – Useless for non-domain computers. Disable it.

Secondary Logon – If you have only one username who logs onto your conmputer then you can disable this service.

Smart Card – Disable if you don’t have a smart card

Smart Card Removal Policy – Disable if you don’t have a smart card

SNMP Trap – If you don’t rely on a SNMP management program then disable this service.

Special Administration Console Helper – Useless for non-domain computers. Disable it.

Tablet PC Input Service – Obviously if you don’t have a Tablet PC then this is meaningless. Disable this service.

Windows CardSpace – This service is required to run Windows CardSpace. If you never use this program, disable this service.

Windows Color System – Set to manual.

Windows Defender – Disable this service if you use a 3rd party antimalware solution such as Malwarebytes.

Windows Font Cache Service – Disable this service.

Windows Remote Management – Disable this service.

WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service – Mostly used by your Internet browser to detect a proxy for Internet browsing. This service can cause a surge of CPU usage from time to time. If you do not use a proxy for internet browsing then disable this service.

World Wide Web Publishing Service – This service is used mostly for IIS Web Services but this service is installed when you install the .NET Framework 3.5 feature regardless of whether the fact you use IIS or not. If you do not use IIS for web services then disable this service.

If you do not care for any diagnostic services such as if a problem with your network adapter happens (you cannot connect to internet), or a problem with an application and you want to “troubleshoot it” then you can disable the following services as well:

Diagnostic Policy Service
Diagnostic Service Host
Diagnostic System Host

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What is the name of your wireless/bluetooth card?

Have you tried installing the XP 64 or Vista64 version of the driver to see if that resolves your problem?

How far away is the card from your access point?

Did you try plugging the device into another machine running Windows 7 to see if it works ok?

Routers work on the network layer of the OSI model (layer 3) independent of the OS. We are talking about networking protocols here which is supported by practicially every OS. As long as your OS supports DHCP and DNS it should not matter if its Linux or Mac OSX or Windows Server. I doubt it is an issue with Windows Server as you explained in your first post you were able to get it to successfully connect. I would think if the card was not supported by Windows Server it would not work period. In other words you would not see any wireless networks at all.

Make sure that your wireless card supports the encryption method used by your Billion BiPAC 7300W router. For example if you set it to WPA2-Enterprise and your wireless card only supports WPA-1 it will not connect no matter how hard you try. You could temporarily change your router as an unsecured access point and see if the card will just connect straight through without any issues of authentication.

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Your card is scanning for available wireless networks which must mean the driver was successfully installed. Could it be a software restriction/road block that is preventing you from connecting? I say this because I had a Netgear WG111v3 wireless G card that I installed a while ago and I accidently installed the management software to handle all my Wifi connections (Netgear Smart Wizard). Every time I tried to connect using Network and Sharing Center it would not work, but once I used the Smart Wizard it worked perfectly. This concept worked much like the XP days where your network adapter’s management software would take priority over managing your connections. If you ever needed to use the built-in utility you had to shut the software down and enable the Wireless Zero Configuration Service.

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WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Interesting discovery.

I wanted to experiment with your problem on my laptop so I copied all my important stuff over and reformatted and put on R2. My laptop is just a simple dual core with 3GB of RAM, integrated graphics, 5400RPM HDD. Granted I have a T7250 and not a shitty Atom processor (LMAO sorry). But its nothing really special.

Here’s the step by step instructions on what I did.

1. Installed Operating System

2. Installed .NET Framework 3.5, Desktop Experience, Windows Server Backup, Wireless LAN features. Rebooted.

3. Installed graphics driver. Rebooted.

4. Installed Superfetch service from R2 Conv GUI. Rebooted.

I rebooted a couple times and my average boot time was roughly 1 min 5. I noticed that loading Internet Explorer is a bit slower than when you do the same thing on a fresh install of Windows 7.

5. Next I opened command prompt and started the disk defrag service: sc start defragsvc

6. Next I changed directory to the Prefetch folder and created the Layout.ini file template.

cd WindowsPrefetch
echo [OptimalLayoutFile] > Layout.ini

7. Next I built the layout.ini prefetch by issuing the following command: rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

I waited for a few minutes for the list to populate.

Next I rebooted. Boot time went down a few seconds to 55 seconds.

I rebooted again and it goes down to 29 seconds (7-esque)!! Apparently Superfetch makes a huge difference in the performance of your boot time. Readyboost I would imagine would be more suitable at performance supplement for application prefetching. Keep in mind that these technologies are just a supplement to performance not a replacement. Your obvious best solution to performance problems is a hardware upgrade (more RAM, faster HDD or SSD,etc)

Not bad though.

I ran the boot optimization process and here’s my result. Pretty freaking awesome if you ask me. I think I found my new love and her name is Server 2008 R2 baby.

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@Enigma wrote:

HalladayRules: I have read some of your posts here and saw that your name is Steve. Well, so is mine. Nice to be acquainted with you. But getting on with it, do you know of any commercially available apps that do what SuperFetch does, but in a more efficient manner, and/or also arent explicitly dependent upon support in the Kernel?

The closest thing commercially-available that works much like Superfetch/Readyboost I have found is called eBoostr. I have the full version on my FTP. Worth a shot, if it doesn’t work, its a simple click and uninstall. The only thing is you need to add eBoostrCP.exe as an exception in your AV or it will be picked up as a threat (false positive).

1. Download it here ftp://sealy1986.dyndns.org/Software/eboostr.rar

2. Extract the RAR

3. Go to the extracted contents and inside the folder, extract “eBoostr.v.4.0.0.554.x64.V4-TB.rar” (64-bit version for R2)

4. Launch eBoostr application (3,529KB size)

5. Launch Task Manager. Click on Processes tab and kill the eboostrCP.exe process.

6. Copy the eBoostrCP.exe and EBstrSvc.exe and paste it in C:Program FilesEboostr

7. Reboot and then eboostr service will be enabled and you can simply plug in your USB flash drive and use it as a caching device. If you have antivirus I recommend you simply install the program first, so you can add C:Program FilesEboostr folder as an exception.

@Enigma wrote:

I have used the Converter linked on the main page of this site to build in some new features, and the SuperFetch service is now running, but when i go to the Properties tab of a usb flash drive the ReadyBoost tab doesnt show up. what am I doing wrong?

The only thing that I did to get it to work was:

1. Install Superfetch service from R2 Conv GUI
2. Launch Superfetch.reg
3. Launch Readyboost.reg

Next I simply inserted my USB stick and when I went to Properties the Readyboost tab appeared. I have attached the Superfetch and Readyboost reg files in this post below.

@Enigma wrote:

I watched your video(s) in the last post and I kind of understand the points you are trying to make. But I still have no way of knowing if the SuperFetch cache is populating, if at all

The following guide below will give you a better understanding of how Superfetch works.

All of the Superfetch data is located at C:WindowsPrefetch

The following experiment below will help you better understand how Superfetch works at a basic level.

1. Navigate to C:WindowsPrefetch; assuming C: is your OS drive letter.

2. Delete everything in this folder EXCEPT Readyboot folder and Layout.ini

3. Leave this window open. Now let’s launch an application. Go ahead and launch Calculator.

What do you see populated in C:WindowsPrefetch?

4. Now close Calculator.

What do you see populated in C:WindowsPrefetch now?

Notice how the contents of applications are not populated in the prefetch folder until after you have closed them. This is because Windows is learning what applications you commonly use and smartly “pre loading” them into memory. The only difference between the older Prefetching method in XP and the more advanced “Superfetch” technology in Vista/7 is that is has the ability to monitor a user’s browsing behavior (aka the applications you most frequently use) so these applications are already preloaded into memory and ready to go.

When an application is launched Superfetch only keeps a working tally for no more than 10 seconds. This design flaw can troublesome on resource-lacking computers such as your netbook with only 1 GB of RAM. Already considering that your netbook’s HDD is probably slow enough to load the programs it is understandable that your machine will probably never seen a noticeable tangible gain from Superfetch at all! Atleast on the applications that need it.

@Enigma wrote:

And I don’t quite get the concept of how to enable boot optimization like your video shows, much less how to perform a proper benchmark to see if it’s actually working or not.

I use the PC Boot Timer utility to keep a consistent tally of your boot times. It doesn’t keep a history of your previous boot times, but rather is only used for a single boot test. Just simply use Notepad or an actual pen+paper to keep a tally of your boot times.

PC Boot Timer here: http://download.cnet.com/PC-Boot-Timer/3000-2094_4-10545234.html

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@Enigma wrote:

Halladay rules, i have watched the video but am hardly convinced that SuperFetch/ReadyBoost actually produces results. maybe you are doing some other kind of tweaks to your machine that would decrease your boottime.

I understand your argument completely and I have rebutted my feelings on the whole superfetch/readyboost debate before. One problem I have found with Superfetch is that when you populate your RAM with cached data, you will find that most of the time another program populates into RAM and pushes the cached data out. This is especially noticeable on a machine with a small pool of available memory. Say your example Superfetch has cached Microsoft Office, Windows Media Player, DivX Player, and Internet Explorer. Ok great. Now 10 minutes later your antivirus runs a background scan, but because you had no available memory left it was forced to page some contents of that cached RAM out of memory. What is the point of Superfetch if my cached applications are constantly being pushed off the bed?! This is not a problem if you have 10 little monkies jumping on a bed the size of Europe. The whole concept of “free memory is wasted memory” is only true if you can afford to give it away. But even if you have a sizable chunk of memory, Superfetch is usually hit or miss on populating your applications in memory.

The second problem that exists with Superfetch is the way its prediction algorithm tries to monitor user behavior and load the applications that it thinks the user will use at certain time of day. This is not a problem for a person like me whom has 8GB. If Superfetch loads an application that I don’t need into memory, its not a problem because I still have plenty of available memory to go around. Now lets say that this prediction algorithm starts loading applications into memory on your 1GB netbook, but its an application that you use not as often. Now your RAM is populated with useless data and because you have a small pool of memory available the next application that you launch will act no differently then if you Superfetch disabled!

I always try to picture the Superfetch concept as the “drinking bird” in this YouTube video.

[youtube:1fm0nnw4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0mcGDAs3f8[/youtube:1fm0nnw4]

The bird on the left with the green cup is your netbook with 1GB of RAM.
The bird on the right with the clear cup is my quad core with 8GB of RAM.

Every time the bird takes a drink of water it symbolizes Superfetch accessing data from your hard drive and caching it into RAM. Notice how the bird of the left goes to the cup of water a lot more often than bird on the right. The same principal is true for my machine versus yours. My 8GB of RAM can keep more applications into memory a lot longer than your 1GB netbook can and thus I will could actually see noticeable performance gains of Superfetch over time, PROVIDED its prediction algorithm is smart enough to load the correct applications into memory.

@Enigma wrote:

Furthermore, you are running 2008 R2 on a desktop ( or at least a laptop), whereas I am running on a netbook with 1 gig of RAM and Atom processors. this thing could never achieve that kind of performance/response time, no matter the amount of tweaking.

You are exactly right. On my YouTube Channel (win2008workstation) I point out in the description of my Boot Optimization video that these performance tweaks are platform specific. I tried the same exact routine on my dual core laptop with 3GB but couldn’t get my machine to boot in under 40 seconds. Understandably a 5400RPM HDD will not see the same performance benefits as a high speed, low latency 7200 RPM drive.

@Enigma wrote:

I know of a store online that sells 2 gig DDR3 RAM chips for netbooks, next week i am going to upgrade it and hopefully that will help alot. Every time i check task manager it still shows as havingbetween 40 to 50% (on average) CPU being used, but shows memory as being almost maxed out most of the time.

I ran R2 on my Intel core 2 duo T7250, 3GB (DDR2 800) laptop with Superfetch enabled and I can honestly tell you that Superfetch made absolutely no difference. Even if all the boot optimization strategies that I implemented on my desktop, the lowest boot time I saw on R2 was 50 seconds. I don’t think its particularly Superfetch’s fault but rather the bottleneck of my hardware thats the problem. Running Superfetch on a laptop with 4GB of RAM is completely useless if you have a 4200RPM/5400RPM HDD with a high latency seek time. Even if Superfetch attempts the load the application into memory it is going to have a hard time doing so with that bottleneck.

@Enigma wrote:

I originally wanted to run Win7Ultimate x64 on here but it was almost as slow as Vista at times, so I decided to give R2 x64 a try when i found out my processor supports a 64 bit host OS. I realize that 64 bit on a netbook is probably overkill but i want to be able to run x86 and x64 versions of apps.

When I did run R2 on my laptop even though the boot time wasn’t the fastest the applications were pretty responsive, but I credit eBoostr for doing most of the work. It works much like Readyboost/Superfetch but more efficiently on low resource machines like netbooks or laptops.

You can try enabling boot optimization to see if you notice any performance gains.

[youtube:1fm0nnw4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQJQT_kmbXA[/youtube:1fm0nnw4]

Worth a shot. I think you are going to be a lot better off with the hardware upgrade over anything else.

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@Enigma wrote:

As a side question, did you and the other Horsemen ever figure out whether the SuperFetch and ReadyBoost in R2 actually produces verifiable performance improvements? i asked in my last post, must’ve been overlooked.

Well, thats all for now. reply soon!

Here is a video of a restart test of my machine.

[youtube:308ozpp1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efpOt9d3_9Y[/youtube:308ozpp1]

I used a 2GB Kingston flash drive (readyboost) and Superfetch to perform a Boot Optimization to achieve the desired boot time below. My specs are Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 8GB DDR2 800Mhz RAM, 250GB (OS) + 500GB (data) 7200 RPM HDDs, and a generic EVGA GeForce GT240 video card. This boot time is including the slight delay that is caused by the boot timer utility starting up at logon.

[attachment=1:308ozpp1]server2008r2boottime.jpg[/attachment:308ozpp1]

The true “uptime” of my machine is below:

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@thaikinh wrote:

Is there any workaround to make the free Avira AV to work on R2? According to the recent VB100 test, it is still one of the best AV out there, even better than many well-known paid AV.

Currently MSE installs and works flawlessly without any hacks but I still prefer Avira AV

Oh you mean this?! I will provide a video tutorial on how I got it to work later.

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@kji wrote:

Figured it out.

First off the error was 0xc0000022.

For some reason the SYSTEM user decided to encrypt all of the directx related DLLs in system32 and syswow64. After getting a good copy of the files from a friend’s computer everything works.

TrueCrypt?

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Backup your original BFBC2Game.exe

Download this and replace file.

http://gf.wiretarget.com/battlefield_bad_company_2.htm

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