XP Tweaking Questions and Comments

[asubaseball727]

Do the changes that are mentioned in the first section useful for firefox also?

[ROM-DOS]

Do the changes that are mentioned in the first section useful for firefox also?

I don't use firefox ~ I use Avant ~ I found it to be the fastest browser!

. . .but all the tweaks should work with firefox ~ try and see ~ just be sure you read and understand everything first.

[asubaseball727]

Ok, thanks... Great guide btw

[asubaseball727]

3. By default Windows  XP caches everything in the DNS cache service,

  both correct and faulty DNS lookups. To increase performance by

  eliminating the caching of faulty DNS lookups,change the following values

  from whatever their original values are to zero.

    ~ Use Hexadecimal base values. 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServices

  DnscacheParameters

    NegativeCacheTime              REG_DWORD        0x00000000 (0)

    NetFailureCacheTime            REG_DWORD        0x00000000 (0)

    NegativeSOACacheTime        REG_DWORD        0x00000000 (0)

Under  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServices

  DnscacheParameters

I only have a REG_SZ and REG_EXPAND_SZ

Am I in the wrong spot?

[ROM-DOS]

asubaseball727 ~ you do have Windows XP, right.

  do you have these double-word (DWORD) values in Parameters

    NegativeCacheTime              REG_DWORD        0x00000000 (0)

    NetFailureCacheTime            REG_DWORD        0x00000000 (0)

    NegativeSOACacheTime        REG_DWORD        0x00000000 (0)

if so, right click and Modify to 0

if not, create the DWORDS; right click on Parameters > New > DWORD Value

and create them just the way they look here ~ with the capitals for each word (no spaces between the words) ~ if you find this confusing ~ create a restore point first and read and think hard about what your about to do.  take your time.  just make sure it looks exactly the way it looks in my posts ~ I tried to make everything as user friendly as possible.