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If you have a SCSI drive, make sure the write cache is enabled. you can do so by opening the properties of the SCSI drive in Windows.

in the event you have a machine with an older network card, make sure to enable the onboard processor for the network card, which will offload tasks from the CPU.

in the event you are using Windows Vista, you can disable the Welcome Center splash screen that always pops up.

in the event you already have anti-spyware application installed, turn off Windows Defender protection.

in the event you are walking a 32-bit version of Windows and have 4GB of RAM or more, you can force Windows to see and use all of the RAM by enabling PAE