Win 8 Performance Tweaks, Drivers Updates and what to avoid

Quick Summary of Tweaks for Win8 for Programming or Video Editing:

1. Service Tweaks

Disable UnNecessary Services

2. Regedit Tweaks

http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Troubleshooting/en390339

and

http://www.registryrecycler.com/blog/2013/02/how-to-optimize-windows-8-to-run-faster/

and

here

3. Driver Updates: 

Network Card from here

Display Driver NVidia

*** Important, do NOT install GeForce Experience

see here: Avoid GeForce Utility, Bloat WARE and SpyWare

Also, here is more info on NVidia, only install the driver, and even after that u need to watch out for a service exe that runs associated with the driver, u can disable by seeing this article bottom of article.

http://www.ghacks.net/2012/12/26/make-sure-you-only-install-nvidia-drivers-you-need/