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Important registry tweaks

December 21, 2008 By
  • Speeding up network browsing.

Open regedit and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace

Delete the key: {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

  • Faster webpage tweak by giving priority to DNS lookup.

Copy and paste the following and make it a .reg file and merge it into your regstry:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ServiceProvider]

“DnsPriority”=dword:00000001
“HostsPriority”=dword:00000001
“LocalPriority”=dword:00000001
“NetbtPriority”=dword:00000001

  • Forward buffer memory tweak, this controls how much RAM TCP/IP uses for storing packet data in the router packet queue.

Copy and paste the following and make it a .reg file and merge it into your regstry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]

“ForwardBufferMemory”=dword:00024a00
“NumForwardPackets”=dword:0000024a
“MaxForwardBufferMemory”=dword:00024a00
“MaxNumForwardPackets”=dword:0000024a

  • By default Windows 2K & XP cache everything in the DNS cache service, both correct and faulty DNS lookups. To increase performance by eliminating the caching of faulty DNS lookups, copy and paste the following and make it a .reg file and merge it into your regstry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]

“NegativeCacheTime”=dword:00000000
“NetFailureCacheTime”=dword:00000000
“NegativeSOACacheTime”=dword:00000000

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