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asubaseball727

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« on: January 01, 2006, 07:09:07 PM »

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


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Re: RE:Rom-Dos's Performance Tuning

« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2006, 07:37:43 PM »

Quote from: asubaseball727 on January 01, 2006, 07:09:07 PM

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.


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Re: RE:Rom-Dos's Performance Tuning

« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2006, 07:40:03 PM »

Ok, thanks... Great guide btw


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Re: RE:Rom-Dos's Performance Tuning

« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2006, 07:46:41 PM »

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_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
\Dnscache\Parameters

NegativeCacheTime REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0)
NetFailureCacheTime REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0)
NegativeSOACacheTime REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0)

Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
\Dnscache\Parameters

I only have a REG_SZ and REG_EXPAND_SZ

Am I in the wrong spot?


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Re: RE:Rom-Dos's Performance Tuning

« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2006, 08:46:27 PM »

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.


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