Windows NT slow

There are several ways to improve performance on NT, mostly dependent on how your network is configured. Possibly the most importat is Virtual memory. Go into Control Panel -> System -> Performance, then click on change. The initial size should be the amount of physical ram in your pc plus 11/12. That is; if you have 64mb set it to 75, 128-139, you get the idea. The maximum size should be set to about 50 more, ie 125, 189, etc. If you have more than one physical disk, you can change the location of the paging file to the non-system hard disk.

Additionally, check your profile directory to ensure you don't have too many files in there. NT Profiles should never really exceed 2mb. This should improve log on and log off times.

Check your event logs to see if any hardware drivers are being loaded that aren't needed, and if so disable them.

There are also many performance "tweaks" available in the registry of NT. I won't list them here, but they are available on www.regedit.com. Remember to back up your registry and data before modifying the registry!

To improve network perforance, there are even more things you can do. Implement DHCP, DNS, WINS, Active Directory, the list goes on and is beyond the scope of this answer.
Hope this helps,
Gary
Hope this helps.

a other way is in the dos-box with diskperf -n to disable the index-service, also disable services you dont need like telnet or ras (be sure)
cu

Well other than hardware improvements (faster drive/drive array, controller, CPU...and of course RAM), there are several other things you can do to improve performance.

Check your system performance under Task Manager. IT will show you CPU and Memory useage and let you know if the bottleneck is there. You can look under applications and processes to see what is running and if there is anything you can shut down. Particularly look at the CPU and Memory useage of the different processes. You may spot some real issues there. Monitoring pagefile in the performance monitor han help you catch a lot of memory leak issues...

Next, you may want to check your virtual memory settings. You can find this under the performance tab of the System in your control panels.

I also would recommend a tool like Diskkeeper from Exeutive Software to keep your drive running optimally. The drive throughput is a definite spot where the system can bottleneck, so be aware of this...particularly if usingIDE drives with multiple users on the system.

Good luck...hope this helps.

Slow startup and login but otherwise decent performance: start disabling junk that loads at login. Most of it is unecessary, typically.

Slow overall performance/hard drive access: I'd disagree with answer #1 here only in that I prefer fixed virtual memory size rather than min/max. The only real reason for this is that a fixed size pagefile isn't susceptible to fragmentation, which can be a real issue, even on and NTFS drive. NT doesn't have a built-in defragger, but defragging your hard drive can still have a big effect on performance. Diskeeper is the most popular (a modified version of Diskeeper serves as the built-in defrag utility in Win2K), but there is at least one freeware NT defragger that I'm aware of, and there are probably others.

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