Waits for several minutes on "contacting servers" after running tipstir's tweaks

[osvaldo_falco]

Hello, I tried running tipstir's tweaks (dns.reg, lanman.reg, tcp.reg and mem.reg) and now my MVP won't start GBPVR as fast as it used to - it sits on the "Contacting Servers" screen for several minutes before reaching the GBPVR interface. Before installing the tweaks, it took only a few seconds.

Can anyone suggest which tweak might be the problem, and how I might fix it? The tweaks seem to have made playback and navigation a bit more responsive, but a fast startup would be good!

[capone]

Undo all of them, and add them back until it does it again. It's going to be the best bet for your situation, since if one of those were a problem for everyone, it wouldn't be a performance tweak

[osvaldo_falco]

I'd like to do that, but I don't seem to be able to restore my backup registry (Win2000 BTW). Before running the tweaks I made an ERD and chose to back the registry up on the HD, and I have 5 files stored - DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE and SYSTEM. But I can't overwrite the files from within Windows, even if I boot into Domain Restore Mode, and I can't find a way to get to the command prompt outside Windows.

I had thought of using a bootdisk to get a command prompt, but none of the ones I have found on the web seem to allow me to write to NTFS partitions, which is what my system resides upon.

I have searched for a utility that might read my backup registry files, so that I could search for the changes, but to my surprise I haven't found anything yet.

Recommendations on what I might do next would be most welcome!

[osvaldo_falco]

I finally found a program to view my backup registry (Mitac Windows Registry File Viewer), and restored the old keys one set at a time. The set that seemed to make the difference was the mem.reg, not what I'd have guessed but I will try to test further in the next few days and see if I can isolate the problem key.

tipstir, my network card is set to autoselect, and appears from my router's display to be operating at 100Mbit/s.

[osvaldo_falco]

All of the registry key tweaks themselves appear to work fine. The original problem was caused by running the mem.reg file, but if I undo the changes it makes, alter the mem.reg file so that the first line is "REGEDIT4" rather than "Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00", and run it, it works.

I couldn't even begin to imagine why this might be!

[osvaldo_falco]

I'll try setting my network card to 100Mbit/s, then. As for the memory, my PC is a couple of years old anyway - CPU is a 2500+ Barton (512KB L2) and RAM is 512MB. Are the memory tweaks suitable for this kind of system? I applied them, and I haven't noticed much of a difference, but then I've never subjectively noticed any speed increases of less than about 50% without benchmarking anyway!