Filing system

1. You may change your Windows filing system options this way, e.g. Desktop, Network server.
2. Open Regedit, go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS Templates\].
3. Add a new key called Optimal. Add two new binary values in that key with the names NameCache and PathCache.
4. I would recommend using values somewhere in-between the values are for "Desktop" and "Network Server". The optimal values would be 00 08 00 00 for NameCache and 30 00 00 00 for PathCache (2048 filenames and 48 pathnames).
5. Close Regedit & right click on My Computer, selecting Properties.
6. Click on the Performance tab, select the File System button & you will now find the Optimal setting in the drop down box.
7. Select it, click on Ok then restart the PC.

Cleaning the registry

First off if you are using Windows 95, a version older than OSR2, you'll need to get this. Just unzip it & run the file in it, this fixes regedit errors in Windows 95 & is essential. It can be deleted once you've run it. Reboot after it’s used.

The registry can be full of empty links & registries that are cluttering up your registry. I recommend downloading EasyCleaner, by Toniarts & let it do it for you. It can even check for unnecessary files too. Use this regularly to clean up your systems registry & other potentially unneeded files.

Another program to use is Microsoft’s regclean. Use this to scan for invalid entries as well. It creates an undo file in case you need to restore the registry with the removed entries. Simply double click the undo file to add the information back.

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