Install Wim Tweak Exercise Machines

THIS GUIDE WAS UPDATED 5th April 2019
I play a lot of games and haven’t found a comprehensive guide on Tweaking Windows 10 for Gaming, Performance, System Tweaks, Overclocking & Ping/Latency Improvements and all the relatively simple things you can do to give you better performance in games, a better ping online and make the right choices for your needs, I am sure there are changes here that some people will disagree with, feel free to message me & I will change anything that gets out of date or is no longer working.

This Guide is in the process of being fleshed out, when it’s done it will be an article & video, each of the sections will have a skip timecode or bookmark too. And if you are unsure about a setting, quickly google it to make sure you aren’t wrecking your OS, I take Zero responsibility for anything going wrong, all I have done here is compiled and tested the Tweaks and for ME they work and are Safe.

The Windows 10 April 2018 Update broke & caused a lot of issues for users, here is links to an additional guide if you are suffering more issues after the update.

If you are using Shadow & want to set that up, you can find more info here

Apr 16, 2011  'use the original install.wim. Hive in to regedit.exe the software in system32config export to the packages. With notpade replace 'Visibility'=dword:00000002. To 'Visibility'=dword:00000001. Save it and import it back to regedit.exe click it twice, u should take owner and full access first.

Why Windows 10?
General Gaming Tweaks
Online Gaming Tweaks
System Tweaks
Basic Overclocking
(EXPERIMENTAL) Programs & Settings

Why Windows 10 over 7 or 8.1?
Windows 10 Pro 64bit is actually your best option now,
It has better boot times than 7 & 8.1
And better Gaming performance, though some of it is fractional
More hardware is supported in general
And DX12 is supported thru it – which we will start seeing more and more games using.

Windows 10 Pro
Pro Gives you a few advantages but not really any performance gains over Home. I recommend Pro but if you need to save a couple of bucks or pounds or Euros then you can grab Windows 10 Home.
I think you can still grab Windows 10 Pro Licencesfrom Kinguin.net for $30-35 & as far as I am aware they are legit.

General Gaming Tweaks
Update Your Drivers!
The Most obvious and necessary make sure you have the latest drivers installed for you system & devices especially your graphics card update your Windows 10 via the Update & Security Tab.

Grab The Latest Graphics Card Drivers
AMD Radeon Adrenaline Drivers amd.com/en/support
Nvidia Geforce Drivers geforce.co.uk/drivers
You only need the Core Drivers & potentially the PhysX Software.
For those of you that want a clean installation here is DDU Display Driver Uninstalled

Speed Up & Secure Your Internet DNS

• Click on the Start menu, then click on Control Panel.
• Click on Network and Internet.
• Click on Change Adapter Settings.
• Right click on the Wi-Fi network you are connected to, then click Properties.
• Select Internet Protocol Version 4 (or Version 6 if desired).
• Click Properties.
• Write down any existing DNS server entries for future reference.
• Click Use The Following DNS Server Addresses.
• Replace those addresses with the 1.1.1.1 DNS addresses:
• For IPv4: 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1
• For IPv6: 2606:4700:4700::1111 and 2606:4700:4700::1001
• Click OK, then Close.
• Restart your browser.

See more info at 1.1.1.1

Turn off Focus Assist
In Control Panel/Settings
Click System
Focus assist
Turn it to Alarms only

Power Options
Control PanelAll Control Panel ItemsPower Options
It’s worth changing your Power Options to High Performance

Disable Mouse Acceleration
I Honestly Can’t believe the amount of people that still have this on.
Mouse acceleration needs to be turned off for gaming otherwise you are aiming.

• Again in Control Panel
• Mouse
• Pointer Options
• Untick Enhance Pointer Precision (this is mouse acceleration)
• Also try adjusting the Pointer Speed slider here till you are happy

What DPI & Sensitivity should you select?
With some mice you will have software to set you dpi,
so in most games I recommend 400-1600 if in doubt try 800 even if your mouse have 20 billion DPI.
Some people will set their DPI far too high, you want to adjust the sensitivity via the mouse options and in game

NVIDIA Graphics Settings, if you have an NVIDIA Card

• Go into the NVIDIA Control Panel
• Manage 3D Settings
• Set Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration – Single display performance mode (If you have issues with low frame rates on your other monitors OR you are using multiple monitors to game with then change this to Multi)
• Preferred refresh rate – Highest available
• [OPTIONAL] Turn Off Shader Cache, some people experience gains with it off, some people lose performance. I leave Shader Cache On.
• I set Pre-Rendered Frames to 1, this will give you the least latency.
• Texture Filtering Quality – Performance, there is no discernible graphics improvement at higher Qualities IMO.

Under Display, click Adjust desktop size and position.
On the Scaling tab, turn off Override the scaling mode set by games and programs.

Disable Windows Update Delivery Optimization
Windows Updates has a setting where it can munch your bandwidth by sending Windows updates to other PCs on the net. It’s worth turning this off as it can affect your gameplay and also eat into any data allowance you might have.

To turn this feature OFF, follow these given steps:

• Go to Settings in the Start menu
• Search for Update & Security
• Under Windows Update, open Advanced Options
• Click Choose How Updates are Installed, select Choose how updates are delivered
• Disable the toggle under Updated from More than One Place

Disable OneDrive
If you don’t use OneDrive then disable it, it eats up your bandwidth. The OneDrive app of Windows 10 uploads your new files to the cloud internet server so you can access them anywhere.
To disable OneDrive:
Right click on the OneDrive app which is located on your taskbar and click exit.

System Tweaks
Disable Hibernate
Hibernate mode is set up by default to allow the hard drive disk to load the programs faster instead of booting the system, but it is unnecessary for an SSD system drives.

• To do this, simply open your CMD command
  Search for CMD in the start menu search bar
• Right click CMD and Run as Admin & Type,
• powercfg -h off
• Press Enter

Gigaware vhs to dvd converter mac driver. Setting your Page File

• Press Windows Key
• Click In the Search Box
• Search for “Control” then Click on it,
• Click System
• Click Advanced System Settings
• Click the Advanced Tab

• Under Performance, Click Settings
• Under the Advanced tab Click Change
• Uncheck Auto manage
• PLEASE NOTE THAT I RECOMMEND SETTING THIS TO AN SSD DRIVE, however this may shorten the lifespan of the Drive, I believe it’s minimal though.
• Set a single one of your Drives to SYSTEM MANAGED SIZE
• Set
• All other Drives should be set to None (unless if the pagefile you set wasn’t on your OS drive & you want to leave 300mb on your main boot drive for “crash info & recovery”)

If you have loads of Ram some people recommend having no pagefile, though some applications require a page file to operate optimally.

I recommend having a Page File on a separate drive or secondary drive.
I use an SSHD that I also use for storage. And let the system workout how much it needs. After much testing I found that I get FRACTIONAL improvements consistently with a 4GB Pagefile on a 2nd drive & NO page file on my main or gaming drives.

Some people say if you have 16GB+ ram you should entirely disable pagefiles.
Some programs & games however are designed to operate with a Pagefile & for me it is literally faster to have one. But all gains seem to be pretty negligible when it comes to what size, this is likely to be more noticeable from a stability POV or if you have a small amount of Ram sub 12GB.

Visual Effects and Performance
You can try disabling some of the Visual effects in Windows, it makes Windows faster and a bit more responsive and gives a bit more performance, it’s also in:

• Control Panel
• System
• Advanced System Settings
• Performance Options
• Visual Effects

Keep These 3 enabled

• Show thumbnails instead of icons
• Show window contents while dragging
• Smooth edges of screen fonts

HDD, SSD & Service Optimizations
You’ll want to Defrag your HDDs every so often BUT not your SSDs
It will damage them if you force defrag them, instead you want to TRIM them.
Also I recommend Turning off Indexing on SSDs.

• Press Windows Key + E
• Click on your SSD and right click on it.
• Click properties then uncheck “Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties“
• Click apply then click OK

Disable Restrictive Services – If using Shadow IGNORE this step.

• Press Windows Key + R
• Type services.msc
• Look for the Service you want to disable and right click on it
• Click properties then click Startup type
• Select Disabled, click OK
• Click the folder icon on your taskbar.

You can turn off The Services Listed Below (if you know you don’t use them), they are a mixture of useless & optimization settings: If you have problems running a service then you can reactivate it.

• Windows Search (This will disable Windows Search TOO, keep it if you use it)
• All Xbox Services* You do need these for any Xbox Service games like Sea of Thieves.
• Microsoft SMS router service
• Diagnostics tracking service
• Fax service
• dmwappushsvc

Here is an extended list of Services that I have disabled as I pretty much just play Star Citizen,
I have disabled all of these on my Windows 10 Pro but it’s at your own risk:

AllJoyn Router Service
Application Layer Gateway Service
Bluetooth Support Service
BranchCache
Certificate Propagation
Client for NFS
Distributed Link Tracking Client
dmwappushsvc
Downloaded Maps Manager
Enterprise App Management Service
Geolocation Service
Health Key and Certificate Management
Hyper-V Data Exchange Service
Hyper-V Guest Service Interface
Hyper-V Guest Shutdown Service
Hyper-V Heartbeat Service
Hyper-V Remote Desktop Virtualization Service
Hyper-V Time Synchronization Service
Hyper-V VM Session Service
Hyper-V Volume Shadow Copy Requestor
Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
Internet Explorer ETW Collector Service
IP Helper
Microsoft Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service
Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service
Microsoft Windows SMS Router Service
Netlogon
Offline Files
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator
Retail Demo Service
Sensor Data Service
Sensor Monitoring Service
Sensor Service
Smart Card Device Enumeration Service
Smart Card Removal Policy
SNMP Trap
Storage Service
Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service
Windows Biometric Service
Windows Connect Now – Config Registrar
Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service
Windows Mobile Hotspot Service
Windows MultiPoint Server Host Service
Windows MultiPoint Server Repair Service
Windows Remote Management (WS-Management)
Xbox Live Auth Manager
Xbox Live Game Save
XboxNetApiSvc

Data Mining & Bloatware Removal
There are 2 different ways I recommend to do this, but using the More Automated Newer way is probably better, I’ll leave the Manual way here too.

Spybot Anti-Beacon – If usingShadowIGNORE this step.
This program turns off and stops a load of data mining and Microsoft / Other Services it’s basically designed to block and stop the various tracking (telemetry) issues present in Windows 10.

• Download it – https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/
• Just run the program & press immunize to block pretty much everything
• In Optional apply all of the other settings you are happy with too.

NOTE – If you are using Skype then after you have run this
You’ll need to unblock some hosts can find your hosts-file here:
C:WindowsSystem32driversetchosts
Just open it with Editor and see if you find any lines containing “skype”, “hotmail” or “messenger.live”. Save as a .file then delete the extension and place in the folder.

Turn off Other Tracking , Data-mining, increase Privacy & Performance

• Right Click the Notification Box in the Bottom Right
• Open Action Centre
• All Settings
• System
• In Notifications & Actions I turn all the sliders off
• Apps & Features – There is loads of bloatware
• Sway, Phone, Get Skype, Maps
• I delete everything that I am obviously not going to use.
• If in doubt DON’T DELETE
• Offline Maps – Turn Everything Off Here

Back to Settings

• Privacy
• Go Thru EVERY tab and turn the sliders off unless you have a reason to have them on.
• In Feedback & Diagnostics
• Change Windows Feedback to Never
• If you have the option under Send your device data to Microsoft Select Never OR Basic

Back to Settings

• Update & Security
• I Turn off Everything in Windows Defender, But you may need some form of Virus and Online protection
• Windows Update
• Click Advanced Options
• Choose How Updates are delivered
• Set to Off

Remove Pre-Installed Apps (More Removals)
Windows 10 comes with pre-installed apps or “bloatware” and basically if you don’t use them DELETE / Remove them.

• Control PanelAll Control Panel Items
• Programs and Features
• Uninstall anything that you know you don’t need

Also you can to save some more space by removing the pre-installed apps that came with Windows 10 if you aren’t going to use those apps at all.

• Press the windows key
• Search for Powershell
• Right Click Run as Admin

Enter the following commands to remove one or more apps of your choice:
(I keep calculator BUT get rid of everything else)
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *BingFinance* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *BingNews* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *BingSports* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *BingWeather* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *Getstarted* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *MicrosoftOfficeHub* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *MicrosoftSolitaireCollection* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *Office.OneNote* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *People* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *SkypeApp* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *Windows.Photos* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *WindowsAlarms* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *WindowsCalculator* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *WindowsCamera* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *windowscommunicationsapps* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *WindowsMaps* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *WindowsPhone* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *WindowsSoundRecorder* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *XboxApp* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *ZuneMusic* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *ZuneVideo* Remove-AppxPackage”
powershell “Get-AppxPackage *3DBuilder* Remove-AppxPackage”

The More Automated Way is using W10Privacy
Still getting my head around this simple Windows 10 program, it combines loads of other Privacy Tweaks as well as loads of things to disable in Windows for a better experience.

• Download it from Here
• Run the EXE in it’s own folder by right clicking and “Run as Admin”
• Disable / Tweak anything you want
• Then Press Set Changed Settings, wait then restart

I tick pretty much everything except:

• Show Hidden and Cache Files
• Any Remote Access Services
• Items / Services I know I use
• Some of the Settings in Tweaks & Explorer
• Just have a quick read of the tooltip of each setting before you tick it

NOTE – If you are using Skype then after you have run this
You’ll need to unblock some hosts can find your hosts-file here:
C:WindowsSystem32driversetchosts
Just open it with Editor and see if you find any lines containing “skype”, “hotmail” or “messenger.live”. If you have issues saving then, Save as a .file then delete the extension and place in the folder.

Graphics Card Overclocking
This is much safer and easier than CPU Overclocking
As with CPUs it’s still worth googling your card and the word overclock to see what settings are recommended and achievable.
The Latest GTX 1060, 1070 & 1080 Cards Precision XOC
For Nvidia Cards Prior to the GTX 1060, 1070 & 1080 Series Precision
For AMD & ATI Cards Use AMDTrixx

Overclock your Monitor too you can use those tools to up your pixel clock or hz rate on your monitor, again it’s worth googling your monitor and seeing what others have achieved. You can also just Set a Custom Resolution now in the latest Nvidia Drivers.
I have my AOC 144hz Monitor @ 171hz without any issues.
BUT do this as WITH ALL THE OTHER OVERCLOCKING AT YOUR OWN RISK

And make sure you always Test your Overclocks
Test your overclocks to make sure your system is stable I run a series of 3d Mark Tests
And I also recommend 3d Mark Firestrike for general benchmarking too.
The Basic Version is FREE too!

Also http://www.cpuid.com have loads of great Monitoring Software for your Temps & Voltages.
I can recommend HWMonitor for pretty much everything, again the Freeware version is great.

Other Programs & Settings (EXPERIMENTAL) – If usingShadowIGNORE this step.
So these are programs, tweaks and tools that I am trying out and may be AMAZING, Useless OR Damaging, I don’t know I don’t know enough about them.
Process Lasso – http://bitsum.com
This is a Program that you can use to set process and system priorities to tasks & processes as well as a whole world of other features. I am messing around with the features at the moment & it seems good but I am yet to make up my mind.

Prio Process Priority Saver – http://www.prnwatch.com/prio/
Does a similar more slimline job that Lasso does, saving the Process Priorities so you don’t have to keep setting them.

The CMark Win 10 “Fix” – donewmouseaccel.blogspot.co.uk
This is a registry fix that removes anything that sounds like it might be acceleration related in regards. I haven’t seen any real change (after disabling Mouse Acceleration) It might be magic thinking but every frame is a gain… that doesn’t work when talking about mice does it?

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In Windows 10, Microsoft introduced a new browser called Microsoft Edge. It was created to replace Internet Explorer. Edge is positioned as a modern browser with support of all mainstream web standards. Microsoft implemented a new rendering engine for the browser, which stripped out a lot of legacy code. However, for many users, Microsoft Edge is not at all impressive. It lacks usability, comes without extensions support and it is a Modern/Universal app with many limitations. Its user interface is absolutely terrible and it has no configurable options at all compared to Internet Explorer's rich options. Many users think of Edge as a junk browser and want to remove Microsoft Edge from Windows 10. Today, I would like to share how it can be done.

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Like any built-in Windows apps, Microsoft Edge has no option to get rid of it. To uninstall and remove the Edge browser in Windows 10, we need to refer to a third party tool. Follow the intructions below:

1. Download the Uninstall Edge ZIP fileI made to make it easy.
2. Extract all files from the ZIP archive you downloaded to any desired folder, e.g. Desktop.
3. Right click the Uninstall Edge.cmd file and select 'Run as Administrator'.
4. Wait till the process is done.
5. Restart Windows 10.
6. Now, set your favorite browser as the default. For example, to set Firefox as the default, refer to this article: How to set Firefox as the default browser in Windows 10.

Behind this trick is an application called WIMTweak which manages Windows Packages and allows you to hide/unhide them from the Windows image (WIM) file. It works on offline images as well as online. WIMTweak was created by MSFN user Legolash2o, so credits for this awesome tool go to him.

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