Quick guide to tweak a VM for better performance

Today i came accoss this handy little guide to boost performance of a VM.

1. Disable the pre-logon screensaver:
   Open Regedit
   HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
   Change the value of “ScreenSaveActive” to 0.
2. Disable updates of the last access time attribute for your NTFS filesystem, especially for i/o intensive vm’s this is a real boost:
   Open CMD
   fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1
3. Disable all visual effects:
   Properties on your desktop
   Appearance -> Effects
   Disable all options.
4. Disable mouse pointer shadow:
   Control Panel -> Mouse
   Click on the tab “pointers” and switch “enable pointer shadow” off.

A big thanks goes to Yellow Bricks – Read the full guide here