Thank you. The reaction here has been very positive and I'm glad that so many people appreciated what I did. Other places where I posted this data are picking up as well, quite a few people on OCforums have taken up against BV tweaks.
Assuming that you have another Windows machine on then network that you can use and that your problem doesn't affect your networking. A BartPE disc is a far more complete solution.
It really depends on what you have, network or standalone. The way I see it there is no reason to disable remote registry either way, since removing it does not give any performance boost, it's not a security risk if you've covered your bases with a firewall, and you never know when it might come in handy.
The only configuration that would really be useful is the "Safe" tweak level, because even with the Power User (and especially with Barebones), a lot of useful functionality was disabled, and there were various errors such as software failing to install and so on. But the memory gains at the "Safe" level are so negligible there is really no point whatsoever.
Probably because HardOCP is a site that caters more to the extreme end of tweakers, and while there are probably lots of people there who could slap together a water cooler in their sleep, there are probably few people there who understand much of anything of what Black Viper's advice does.
Indeed. I think these are the most well-balanced forums out there, there are people here who fit in with the HardOCP/xtremesystems overclocking crowd, people who fit in with the undervolt/underclock/silenced SPCR crowd, and those in between.
Oh, and technically, these forums are also the best. Easy on the eye, great posting/editing/search tools, don't have to type in a tiny window if you don't want to, best moderators on the Net, etc.
