Two more troubling settings - Visual Effects and Processor Scheduling

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MARTIN SPENCE

Anyone come across a good way to set the Visual Effects setting to "Adjust for best performance" and the Processor scheduling to "Background Services"?

I have been unable to find a way to set these other than post FBA. Using inctrl5 shows an enormous number of registry changes for the visual effects setting.

Thanks to all.
 
The Visual Effects settings are mapped to the following registry value:
[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects],"VisualFXSetting"
That flag should be set to 2 to optimize for best performance. (1 - best apprearance)

The same value could be set under HKLM branch to affect all user accounts. Or under HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT branch to effect the default
user accounts as well as others.

No componet in TD brings in that value by default. It is getting [re]set during FBA.




The Processor scheduling settings are mapped to the following registry value:
[HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl],"Win32PrioritySeparation".
That binary mask value should be set to (include) 0x18 to optimize for background services.

More info here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/29623.mspx.

You can overwrite this value in the Registry Data Section of the "Client / Server Runtime (Console)" component.

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Regards,
KM


Anyone come across a good way to set the Visual Effects setting to "Adjust for best performance" and the Processor scheduling to
"Background Services"?

I have been unable to find a way to set these other than post FBA. Using inctrl5 shows an enormous number of registry changes for
the visual effects setting.

Thanks to all.
 
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