http://www.virtualizetips.com Covering all things in your Virtual Data Center. We write VMware, Citrix & Microsoft from VDI to VMotion. VMware Tips Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:41:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.virtualizetips.com/2010/02/how-to-optimize-windows-xp-for-xendesktop/ http://www.virtualizetips.com/2010/02/how-to-optimize-windows-xp-for-xendesktop/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:04:50 +0000 Brian http://www.virtualizetips.com/?p=87 I found a new white paper released from Citrix today that talks about steps you can take to really optimize your XP images. Sure everyone thinks about things like turning off a few unused services, screen savers and power saving features. But this paper takes a deep dive into a list of settings that you can manually change and explains others that are available in the XenConvert optimizer tool from Citrix. Head on over to Citrix and grab the doc here.

• Offers a better alternative than replacing the default user profile (which isn’t supported and doesn’t help for users that already have profiles)
• Makes a distinction between private mode (1:1) and standard mode (1:many) desktops
• Provides the actual registry keys/values for all optimizations (to ensure that all settings can be set by Group Policy or login scripts)
• Gives best practices for optimizing the user profiles (like installing UPHclean)
• Excludes configurations and steps that don’t help (like defragmenting a disk before performing a volume copy)
• Details what registry changes are included in the XenConvert Optimizer tool (so you know what all those checkboxes are doing)

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