How to Fine Tune WinME

I've found that the basic WinME install is crappy and runs like a dog. Ive looked around and found that these options really improve peformance.

Install the critical update from the windows update.
Disable the System Restore Feature in System Properties
In control panel, disable auto updates
Set a Swap File min/max of 750mb - 1gb
install memturbo2 and setup the cache tuning option.

Now I've done all this and its pretty effective, but one thing ive noticed that i can't find any information on, is why does my internet connection pause every now and then for up to a minute (no data in or out)

Any Ideas?

:confused:

Our ISP here does that Its them not us its there damn proxy server it happens with there dial up,DSL,WIN 95,98,ME,IE4,5,5.1,5.5
realy anoying isnt it when you contact them they deny it however when we rallied around some friends to complain also they fixed the problem it lasted a week!!!

I thought of that briefly, but my connnection runs fine in Win98 and Win2k.

It happened all the time before i applied the changes that i list above. Now it happens every so often (seems to be when im about to kill some dude in Tribes or Quake)

:mad:

there is a really nice tweaking program called xteq (i think) at hotfiles.com

I will check when I get home to see what is called for sure.

It lets you tweak some performance things as well as visual things. (I know have a black screen of death with red type)