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Please note that some of these tips require you to use a Registry Editor (regedit.exe),which could
render your system unusable. Thus, none of these tips are supported in any way: Also note that
most of these tips will require you to be logged on with Administrative rights. Please do not e-
mail me for tech support on any of these tweaks. Use them at your own risk.
Unlocking WinXP's setupp.ini
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WinXP's setupp.ini controls how the CD acts. IE is it an OEM version or retail? First, find your
setupp.ini file in the i386 directory on your WinXP CD. Open it up, it'll look something like this:
ExtraData=707A667567736F696F697911AE7E05
Pid=55034000
The Pid value is what we're interested in. What's there now looks like a standard default. There
are special numbers that determine if it's a retail, oem, or volume license edition. First, we break
down that number into two parts. The first five digits determines how the CD will behave, ie is it
a retail cd that lets you clean install or upgrade, or an oem cd that only lets you perform a clean
install? The last three digits determines what CD key it will accept. You are able to mix and
match these values. For example you could make a WinXP cd that acted like a retail cd, yet
accepted OEM keys. Now, for the actual values. Remember the first and last values are
interchangable, but usually you'd keep them as a pair:
Retail = 51882 335
Volume License = 51883 270
OEM = 82503 OEM
So if you wanted a retail CD that took retail keys, the last line of your setupp.ini file would read:
Pid=51882335
And if you wanted a retail CD that took OEM keys, you'd use:
Pid=51882OEM
Find the appropriate location in the Registry... ...add a few DWORD values... ...And then you'll
be ripping CDs in higher-quality MP3 format!
NETWORK THROUGHPUT
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may or may not work, depends on your configuration. add the Dword values shown below
increases the number of buffers that the redirector reserves for network performance it may
increase your network throughput. the range is 0-255. It is set at 100 here. make MaxCmds &
MaxThreads have same value. The default is 15
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Param
eters]
"MaxCmds"=dword:00000064
"MaxThreads"=dword:00000064
as always - editing the registry can cause serious problems. If you don't know what your doing
then don't do it.
This is more of a "counter what XP does" thing. In other words, XP seems to want to reserve
20% of the bandwidth for its self. Even with QoS disabled, even when this item is disabled. So
why not use it to your advantage. To demonstrate the problem with this on stand alone machines
start up a big download from a server with an FTP client. Try to find a server that doesn't max
out your bandwidth. In this case you want a slow to medium speed server to demonstrate this.
Let it run for a couple of minutes to get stable. The start up another download from the same
server with another instance of your FTP client. You will notice that the available bandwidth is
now being fought over and one of the clients download will be very slow or both will slow down
when they should both be using the available bandwidth. Using this "tweak" both clients will
have a fair share of the bandwidth and will not fight over the bandwidth.
BROADBAND CABLE
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This tweak is for broad band cable connections on stand alone machines with winXP
professional version - might work on Home version also. It will probably work with networked
machines as well but I haven't tried it in that configuration.
This is for winXP only, it does not work on win2000.
In the referenced post I mentioned removing the PSched registry entry. This way however is
better and gives a noticeable connection speed increase. I use 3 Com cards so I don't know how it
works on others at this point. I have others but I didn't test on them. It does not involve editing
the registry. This tweak assumes that you have let winXP create a connection on install for your
cable modem/NIC combination and that your connection has tcp/ip - QoS - file and print sharing
- and client for microsoft networks , only, installed. It also assumes that winxp will detect your
NIC and has in-box drivers for it. If it doesn't do not try this.
Install the speed tweaks from the above referenced post if you want. The change this tweak
makes is noticible without them.
Before beginning:
A. in the "My Network Places" properties (right click on the desktop icon and choose
properties), highlight the connection then at the menu bar choose "Advanced" then "Advanced
Settings". Uncheck the two boxes in the lower half for the bindings for File and Printer sharing
and Client for MS networks. Click OK
B. Continue as indicated below
steps:
1. from the winXP cd in the support directory from the support cab, extract the file netcap.exe
and place it in a directory on your hard drive or even in the root of your C:\ drive.
2. next, open up a command prompt window and change directories to where you put netcap.exe.
then type "netcap/?". It will list some commands that are available for netcap and a netmon
driver will be installed. At the bottom you will see your adapters. You should see two of them if
using a 3Com card. One will be for LAN and the other will be for WAN something or other.
3. Next type "netcap/Remove". This will remove the netmon driver.
4. Open up control panel / system / dev man and look at your network adapters. You should now
see two of them and one will have a yellow ! on it. Right click on the one without the yellow !
and choose uninstall. YES! you are uninstalling your network adapter, continue with the
uninstall. Do not restart yet.
5. Check your connection properties to make sure that no connection exists. If you get a wizard
just cancel out of it.
6. Now re-start the machine.
7. After re-start go to your connection properties again and you should have a new connection
called "Local area connection 2". highlight the connection then at the menu bar choose
"Advanced" then "Advanced Settings". Uncheck the two boxes in the lower half for the bindings
for File and Printer sharing and Client for MS networks. Click OK.
8. Choose connection properties and uncheck the "QOS" box
9. re- start the machine
10 after restart enjoy the increased responsiveness of IE, faster page loading, and a connection
speed boost.
Why it works:
It seems that winXP, in its zeal to make sure every base is covered installs two separate versions
of the NIC card. One you do not normally see in any properties. Remember the "netcap/?"
command above showing two different adapters? The LAN one is the one you see. The invisible
one loads everything down and its like your running two separate cards together, sharing a
connection among two cards. this method breaks this "bond" and allows the NIC to run un-
hindered.