title: Microsoft Windows 2000 Performance Tuning Technical Reference
author: John Paul Mueller
description: New operating systems are designed to offer expanded feature sets, enhance productivity, and access to updated hardware; all of which are supposed to make users more productive. Unfortunately, these enhancements often have the opposite effect; your system may run slowly after installation because these features use more system resources. Tuning offers a way to access these enhancements without killing system performance. A tuned system works faster, operates more reliably, and reduces the time a network administrator requires to maintain the system. In short, if you want to get the most out of your operating system, you need to tune it.
zlib_text: Windows 2000:
  
  The Complete Reference
  
  TEAMFLY
  
  Team-Fly®
  
  About the Authors
  
   **Kathy Ivens** has been a computer consultant and author since 1985. She has
  written and contributed to more than forty books, and hundreds of magazine
  articles. She also writes the Reader Challenge for _Windows 2000 Magazine_
  (formerly known as _Windows NT Magazine_ ).
  
  **Kenton Gardinier,** MCSE, is a Sr. Enterprise Systems Engineer specializing
  in performance analysis and optimization of Windows NT/2000 networks.
  
  Gardinier also lectures on various NT/Win2K issues, such as capacity planning,
  performance optimization, fault tolerant management and enterprise management,
  and frequently contributes to various magazines.
  
  In addition, he is the author of _Windows NT Performance Tuning &
  Optimization_ (Osborne/McGraw-Hill,1998). He is the vice president for the
  Triangle NT User Group and serves on the board of the Worldwide Association of
  NT User Groups.
  
  Our Thanks to Contributing Authors
  
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