Improving Compression in Ghost part2

Tip 1.

Under Internet explorer in properties (general) select delete browsing history on exit.

 

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Under delete select what you want to delete

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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

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Select Advanced

 

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Select performance settings

 

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 Select advanced

 

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You should see the following settings

 

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 Select background services

 

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 Select apply

 

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 Select Programs

 

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 Select apply

 

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  Select ok

 

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  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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