saleh, thanks for the post - I believe some of your listed services are the ones I am looking for
Frank, thanks for the link - I am originally from the German part of Switzerland - no problem reading the article.
If somebody wonders: The tests they made showed basically an improvement of about 4% SysMark 2002 performance with 128MB of RAM in the system and practically no improvement with 256 MB (or more) of RAM.
The 4% improvement where a result of gaining back about 11.5MB of physical RAM
Therefore I have to reformulate my original question a bit
I have a 2.53GHz P4 with 1GB of RAM in my HTPC; I don't need faster performance or freeing up RAM - so here it goes:
What XP tweaks, registry modifications and startup changes are beneficial to a HTPC for:
Improved DVD playback
no interruption
unnecessary background tasks
example: I really don't need messenger on my HTPC and I believe (I may be wrong) messenger is not just your basic app - it probably depends on quite a few other things running; do I need them?
I don't mind having a restore point saved every few days, but what else is going on in the background, checking, calling Bill daily, etc.?
I am asking this question because I run XP on my work PC and when I installed it fresh the PC was booting in record time - so fast, I was surprised.
Now, a few month later it takes minutes for that thing to come up - at least 10 times as long. And I defragment my drives and I have not to many apps installed.
I would like to keep my HTPC as clean as possible but I do want to use it for Divx encoding (that's why the fast CPU and 1GB of RAM), mp3 server, etc.
thx again for your help
