Over the last couple of months I gathered the following tweaks for a better performance insight the virtual machine, besides disabling / uninstalling useless services and devices:
– Disable the pre-logon screensaver:
Open Regedit
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
Change the value of “ScreenSaveActive” to 0.
– Disable updates of the last access time attribute for your NTFS filesystem, especially for i/o intensive vm’s this is a real boost:
Open CMD
fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1
– Disable all visual effects:
Properties on your desktop
Appearance -> Effects
Disable all options.
– Disable mouse pointer shadow:
Control Panel -> Mouse
Click on the tab “pointers” and switch “enable pointer shadow” off.
– Uninstall Tablet PC Components, unless this feature is needed.
– Disable IPv6, unless it is needed.
– Use the File System Utility (fsutil) command to disable the setting that keeps track of the last time a file was accessed.
For example: fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1
– Start the Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and change the TimeOutValue REG_DWORD in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Disk to0x000000be(190).
– Shut down the guest operating system and power off the virtual machine.
Change the virtual machine video card RAM setting to 128 MB.
Power on the virtual machine.
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