Using an Antivirus software does not make your computer immune to Trojans/Malware...

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081130-av-programs-unreliable-during-critical-coverage-gap.html

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Based on Staniford's results, only 40 percent of AV products can detect a given malware binary within three days of that binary hitting the 'Net. This detection rate improves significantly as time passes, but never reaches 100 percent, even months after the initial executable was uploaded to VirusTotal.com. The implications of this lag time are significant, as it identifies a span of days when the malware (whatever it happens to be) is free to move about online more-or-less undetected. Even if we assume Staniford's measurements are off by 15-20 percent, it's still clear that the majority of AV products leave significant coverage gaps.

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This may be minor, but I found it helped reduce intermittent judder for me. If you play with a wired network connection and also have an unused wireless connection, try disabling the wireless connection.

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Are you admitting to pirating ? , mod please remove this post it is not helpful, also remove this one.

Thank You

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Also, I've found the exact opposite. Performance is way down for me compared to my Vista 64 install. Probably more due to beta grade drivers and the like. BTW, I have my copy from Microsoft, all legal and above board :)

Upadated: 4/14/09 My hunters name is now "Seahunter" , also fixed a few spelling errors.

Howdy, Fps is a huge problem in Wotk for many users these past couple weeks or so and I have been trying to increase my own Fps with out spending anything other then a few minutes and so far I have gone from 36fps in Zul'Drak to 71fps & yes that is 71fps, Now I know that every one has a completly different PC some will gain Fps while others may loose Fps it is however worth a shot and all these settings can be moved back to default at any time, no permenent changes here.

First is sound performance <WindowsXP possibly Vista also>
click > start > control panel & double click the sound and audio devices, down towards the bottom you see speaker settings in that area click "advanced" this brings up a window with two tabs you want to click the performance tab. Now look for the slider "Sample Rate conversion quality" and drag that to the far left the setting you want it good, this will allow decent sound while giving back a few Fps I gained a huge chunk of fps by doing that alone.

Next is graphics performance <Geforce & Radeon Graphics>
whether you are a Nvidia or ATI user this will help greatly and is always over looked. Bring up the Nvidia or Ati control panels, this setting keeps the image quality and gives some Fps back you will notice this setting greatly when you load up WoW again.

Nvida Geforce Users: bring up the Nvidia control panel (right click on desktop) and in the left hand pane look for "3D'" and look for "use my preference emphasizing" which has a slider you want to drag that slider to the left to performance click apply at the bottom.

ATI/AMD Radeon Users: Bring up the CCC panel (right click on desktop) and in the left pane is "3D" setting that brings up a slider you want to drag that to the left for the performance setting then click apply.

Next is ethernet performance <wired only> (wireless 802.11 doesn't have this option)
click > start > control panel you want to double click system which brings up a window with tabs, you want the "hardware" tab now towards the top you want device manager this brings up a whole new window. In that window we are looking for "Network adapters" just click the plus+ next to it to expand it then double click your <NAMED> network which brings up a window with tabs you want to select "advanced" tab. Now you are looking for a feature in the window on the left its called "speed duplex" this will be named different for some users. Once you select that a feature to the right becomes avaible its named "value" (for most users) select the dropdown arrow and select 10Mbps Full Duplex then click OK at the bottom, now this will disconnect & reconnect you about 7 seconds. I gain a good amount of Fps from this.

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Preface

This document addresses, in detail, many current and past issues configuring the speed and duplex of ethernet network devices. Note that the need for hand-congiguring switch port speeds and duplex settings has somewhat decreased since the article was initially published. Still, many Cable/DSL modems and some residential broadband routers only work at 10Mbps, half-duplex, and it may be necessary to manually configure your LAN clients.

The article offers detailed explanation of how auto-negotiation works, as well as potential pitfalls and references for configuring devices under the most popular OS's. It was originally intended for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign system administrators, and is reprinted with permission from the author, Jay Kreibich.

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Here is a good bit of info about Ethernet speed Duplex settings and speeds to help support what I have talked briefly about. Link for the site is below, there is worlds of into on that site.

http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=2184

OR Google search speedguide.net if your not comfortable with copy & paste due to all the keyloggers around, its up to you :P

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First is sound performance <WindowsXP>
click > start > control panel & double click the sound and audio devices, down towards the bottom you see speaker settings in that area click "advanced" this brings up a window with two tabs you want to click the performance tab. Now look for the slider "Sample Rate conversion quality" and drag that to the far left the setting you want it good, this will allow decent sound while giving back a few Fps I gained a huge chunk of fps by doing that alone.

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If you followed this and could NOT find the second tab after you clicked advanced, follow this.

With the 'Sound and Audio Devices' window still open, click the tab 'Audio' and go to the first 'Advanced...' button under 'Sound playback'. Click the 'Performance' tab, then (copypasted from above) look for the slider "Sample Rate conversion quality" and drag that to the far left the setting you want it good, this will allow decent sound while giving back a few Fps.