Windows XP Driver Install Documentation

1. run the setup app to install the scherzo drivers

1. reboot

1. install Paris

1. reboot

1. install the effects subsystem

1. reboot.

Tweaking Your PC for PARIS under XP

• Processor Scheduling for Background Services

• Visual Effects for best performance

• Switch Off Desktop Background Image

• Disable Screen Saver

• Disable Fast User Switching

• Switch Off Power Schemes

• Switch Off Hibernation

• Disable System Sounds

• Do Not Map Through Soundcard

• Disable System Restore

• Disable Automatic Updates

• Startup and Recovery Options

• Disable Error Reporting

• Disable Remote Assistance

• Fixed Swap File (Virtual Memory)

• Speed up Menus

• Disable Offline Files

• Disable Remote Desktop

• Disable Internet Synchronise Time

• Disable Hide Inactive Icons

• Disable Automatic Desktop Cleanup Wizard

• Disable NTFS Last Access Time Logging (NTFS Only)

• Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips

• Disable CDROM Autoplay

• Disable Disc Indexing

Additional tips

• 2 audio Partitions

• Use NTFS drives with 64k clusters

• In BIOS disable USB, LPT1, Serial port

• Remove Messenger

• Classic Mode

• Classic Start Menu

• Power Schemes: you can have the monitor turn off but set Turn Hard Drives off to NEVER

• Disable the Computer Browser in Services to improve mapped drive browsing.

• Disable your network card by right clicking on the nic icon

• Defrag regularly

• Keep your desktop clean

• No wallpapers

• Set video to highest color depth

• Increase your IRQ priority

• Disable Power Management

• Set graphic acceleration to full

• Disable background applications

• Disable USB

• Graphical window settings

• Disable NTFS Last Access Time Logging (NTFS Only)

• Maker sure DMA mode is enabled on drives

Processor scheduling should be set to background services and not Programs.

• Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance Settings > Advanced Tab > Background Services

• Advanced tab: Press Settings tab under Performance Visual Effects tab: set to Adjust for Best Performance.

Switch Off Desktop Background Image

• Right Click Desktop > Properties > Desktop Tab > Background None

Screensaver Off

Disable Fast User Switching

• Start > Settings > Control Panel > User Accounts > Change the way users log on or off > Untick Use Fast User Switching

Switch Off Power Schemes

• Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options > Always On > Turn off monitor and turn off hard discs to Never

Switch Off Hibernation

• Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options > Hibernate > Untick Hibernation

• Start > Settings > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Sounds Tab > Sound Scheme to None.

Do Not Map Through Soundcard

• Start > Settings > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Hardware Tab > (highlight your soundcard from the list) > Properties > Audio Devices >

• (highlight your soundcard from the list) > Properties, and check the "Do not map through this device" checkbox.

Disable System Restore

• Start > Settings > Control Panel> System > System Restore Tab. Tick the "Turn off System Restore on all Drives"

Disable Automatic Updates

• Switch off Automatic Updates by going to Control Panel, System, Automatic Updates and ticking the box labelled "Turn off automatic updating. I want to update my computer manually."

Startup and Recovery Options

• Right click My Computer and click on Properties > Advanced > Start Up & Recovery Settings and uncheck "Automatically Restart".

Disable Error Reporting

• Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Advanced TAB > Error Reporting > Click the Disable Error Reporting box (Tick the "But Notify Me When Critical Errors Occur" if you prefer)

Disable Remote Assistance

• Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Remote > Untick "Allow Remote Assistance Invitations to be sent from this computer"

Disable Remote Desktop

• Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Remote > Untick "Allow users to connect remotely to this computer"

Fixed Swap File (Virtual Memory)

• Select the Advanced tab of the Systems applet and then select the Performance settings button. Then select the Advanced page. In here it is possible to customise the Virtual Memory. For custom size, this is often recommended to be 1.5 to 2 times the amount of your total RAM for both initial and maximum size. Set this to a fixed minimum and maximum value according to your existing RAM

Speed Up Menus

• You can use this tip to speed up the Start Menu in Windows XP. You can customize the speed of the Start Menu by editing a Registry Key.

• Click Start, and then click Run.

• Type Regedit in the box, and then click OK.

• Expand the menu in the left panel and select the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop folder.

• Scroll down in the right panel and double click on the MenuShowDelay file.

• In the Value Data box, change to default value for the menu speed from 400 to a lesser number, such as 1.

• Click OK.

Disable Offline Files

• Start > Settings > Control Panel > Folder Options > Offline Files > Untick "Enable Offline Files"

Disable Internet Synchronise Time

• Start > Settings > Control Panel > Date and Time > Internet Time > Untick "Automatically synchronize with an internet time server"

Disable Hide Inactive Icons

• Start > Settings > Taskbar and Start Menu > Taskbar TAB > Uncheck "Hide Inactive Icons"

Disable Automatic Desktop Cleanup Wizard

• Start > Settings > Control Panel > Display > Desktop > Customise Desktop > Untick "Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days"

Disable NTFS Last Access Time Logging (NTFS Only)

• Start > Run > regedit > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CURRENTCONTROLSET > CONTROL > FILESYSTEM

• Add a new DWORD value -

  NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate

• set the value to 1.

• Reboot to make changes effective

Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips

• Click Start , click Run , type regedit , and then press ENTER. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

• Right-click the right pane

• create a new DWORD value

• name it EnableBalloonTips

• Double-click this new entry

• give it a hexadecimal value of 0

• Quit Registry Editor

• Log off Windows

• log back on.

Disable CDROM Autoplay

• One of the very important (and well documented) tweaks in Windows 98SE, was to disable CDROM autoplay (auto insert notification). Disabling CDROM autoplay no longer offers a significant performance benefit in Windows XP, and therefore you do not need to disable it. Just don't insert a CD during a crucial recording. However, if you really want to disable it then here a few different methods.

• Start > Run > Regedit

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom

• Set autorun to 0.

• Open My Computer Right Click on each CDROM and choose Properties

• Click on the Auto Play tab In the drop down box; you can choose the Action for each choice shown in the drop down box

• Go to Start->Run->gpedit.msc Computer Config -> Administrative Template -> System

• Double click Turn off Autoplay Enable it.

Disable Disc Indexing

• Indexing Service is a service that extracts the information from a set of documents and organizes it in a way that makes it quick and easy to access that information through the Windows XP Search function, the Indexing Service query form, or a Web browser.

• This information can include text from within a document, (its contents), and the characteristics and parameters of the document, (its properties), such as the author's name. Once the index is created, you can search, or query the index for documents that contain key words, phrases, or properties.

Additional tips Descriptions

Partitioning

• Start Menu>Run

• Enter this exactly as it is here:

  RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

• Hit Enter

• you will see a DOS-like shell appear and disappear very quickly and then it will ask you to restart.

• Right-click on your desktop, and then click Properties.

• Click on Themes tab

• Set Themes to Windows Classic

• Right-click the Start button, and then click Properties.

• Click Classic Start menu.

• Click the Customize button to select items to display on the Start menu.

Increase your IRQ priority

• Create a text file with the extension ".reg"

• Paste the following into the file:

• REGEDIT4
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl]
  "IRQ8Priority"=dword:00000001

• double-click on the file to enter the tweak into your registry.

• Create a text file with the extension ".reg"

• Paste the following into the file:

• [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl]
  "IRQ8Priority"=dword:00000000

Disable Power Management

• going Start» Settings » Control Panel » Power Management.

• set Power Scheme to "Always On"

• set "System Standby", "Turn off hard disks" and "Turn off monitor" to "Never".

Set graphic acceleration to full

• going to your desktop

• right clicking and clicking on "Properties" then on "Settings", "Advanced" and the "Performance" tab

• make sure the Hardware Acceleration slider is set to "full" to reduce the load on your CPU.

Disable background applications

• go to Start » Run

• type "msconfig" in the run box

• click on the "startup tab"

• disable (uncheck) programs such as "taskmon", "load power profile", "real player", "office startup", "winamp agent" and so on. Keep programs like "scan registry", "system tray" and programs relating to interfacing with your audio card (such as console software to control its features).

Disable USB

• Right click on your "My Computer" icon on your desktop

• select "Properties"

• Click on the "Device Manager" tab and scroll down until you see the USB section.

• Click on the "Properties" for the USB device

• check off "Disable in this Hardware Profile"

• reboot for these settings to take effect.

Graphical window settings

• Go to Start » Settings » Folder options and click on the "View" tab

• Under "Visual settings" check off "Show window contents while dragging. This is more of a usability tweak, as it will allow you to see the contents of windows on the screen as you drag them around (instead of them going blank).

Disable NTFS Last Access Time Logging (NTFS Only)

• Start > Run > regedit > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CURRENTCONTROLSET > CONTROL > FILESYSTEM

• Add a new DWORD value:

• NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate

• set the value to 1

• reboot to make changes effective.

Next step: setting up your ParisCfg paris.cfg (or application preferences) file