Tip 1.
Under Internet explorer in properties (general) select delete browsing history on exit.
Under delete select what you want to delete
Tip 2.
Set the Win32priorityseparation registry key to hex value $26 with regedit
Resource: http://technet.microsoft.com/library/Cc976120
or
click on Start then select run and type in sysdm.cpl
Select Advanced
Select performance settings
Select advanced
You should see the following settings
Select background services
Select apply
Select Programs
Select apply
Select ok
Select yes and your computer will reboot.
Tip 3.
Run ccleaner or norton utilities to clean your partitions before you image the partitions.
Create a dos batch file and schedule ccleaner before you run any backup job (cleaning your partitions before imaging them)
i.e. C:\"Program Files"\"CCleaner"\ccleaner.exe /auto
Tip 4.
Deleting thumb.db from your partitions
Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_thumbnail_cache
Create a dos batch file and schedule it before you run any backup job (cleaning your partitions before imaging them)
D:
cd\
del thumbs.db /a rsha /s
E:
cd\
del thumbs.db /a rsha /s
F:
cd\
del thumbs.db /a rsha /s
G:
cd\
del thumbs.db /a rsha /s
H:
cd\
del thumbs.db /a rsha /s
I:
cd\
del thumbs.db /a rsha /s
J:
cd\
del thumbs.db /a rsha /s
etc.............
Tip 7.
ProcessIdleTasks
Create a dos batch file and schedule it to run once a day
Windows7
%windir%\system32\Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll, ProcessIdleTasks
Windows XP
C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll, ProcessIdleTasks
Note: Windows 8.1 runs a maintenance schedule which does this once a day.
Tip 8.
Set the compression level to Medium instead of Standard (default) in your backup jobs. There is no real loss in the imaging speed (time) but it will decrease the size of the backup image.
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