Here’s some of the things I do to a new Server 2008 R2 install (physical and/or virtual settings are mixed in; (VIRTUAL ONLY) specifies I only do configuration change on Virtual systems).
- Disable Screen Saver, Personalize -> Screen Saver -> None
- Sound, Do not start Audio Service -> Sound
- No Sounds
- Display Performance, System -> Advanced System Settings -> Performance Settings -> Adjust for Best Performance
- Power Options -> High Performance
- Power Options -> Changed when the computer sleeps -> Turn off Display = Never
- Pagefile, System -> Advanced -> Performance -> Set no pagefile (VIRTUAL ONLY)
- Disable System Screensaver Regedit ->
HKEY_USERS\DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
-> DeleteSCRNSAVE.exe
- Stop Audio Service in services.msc, set to Manual
- Remove ipv6 support
- Start Menu -> remove quick launch
- Drive Indexing, My Computer -> C: Properties -> Unselect Index this drive… -> Apply recursively -> ignore all permission errors
- Run as administrator ‘cmd.exe’ ->
powercfg -h OFF
to disable hibernation and deletehiberfil.sys
from C: - reboot
- delete
pagefile.sys
on c: (VIRTUAL ONLY) - defrag C: (I use contig http://live.sysinternals.com/contig.exe and run
contig -s c:\*.*
) - clear
c:\users\administrator\appdata\local\temp
folder - enable remote desktop, right click my computer -> properties -> advanced properties -> remote tab
- activate windows
- Run as administrator ‘cmd.exe’ and copy/paste the following:
powercfg -setactive scheme_min Powercfg -setacvalueindex scheme_current sub_processor 45bcc044-d885-43e2-8605-ee0ec6e96b59 100 Powercfg -setactive scheme_current Powercfg -setacvalueindex scheme_current sub_processor 893dee8e-2bef-41e0-89c6-b55d0929964c 100 Powercfg -setactive scheme_current Powercfg -setacvalueindex scheme_current sub_processor bc5038f7-23e0-4960-96da-33abaf5935ec 100 Powercfg -setactive scheme_current powercfg -setacvalueindex scheme_current 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c 54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00 893dee8e-2bef-41e0-89c6-b55d0929964c 100 Powercfg -setactive scheme_current