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Everton · 2 years ago

Great post Kline. I know a lot of effort went into compiling this list. I will leave my followup questions later ;-)

Wendy Piersall · 2 years ago

I need one on how to speed up Outlook, because I had to switch to Thunderbird it was SO BAD (5+ minutes for a virus scan on a email that had already been scanned?!).

Thunderbird is great, but I have to say, it's no Outlook. ;)

Everton · 2 years ago

try making your PST smaller Wendy by archiving old emails - Outlook has probs once the PST gets too big

Zath · 2 years ago

There's some good tips here, I've had to try some of them on my HTPC which is now a good few years old to ensure that my video runs smoothly, but then I do nothing but watch video on it, so I'm not bothered about losing Aero!

Harishankar · 2 years ago

@Wendy

I recently switched to Thinderbird from outlook and I don't understand why you said its no good than outlook? Ofcourse it took atleast one month to stick with thinderbird, I meanwhile switched back to outlook twice and finally sat down happy with thunderbird. May be coz of the virus scanner integration with TB

Airdave · 2 years ago

Another tips: Windows Vista Speed Tweaks
10 trucchi veloci che possono fare un’enorme differenza nell’esecuzione di Vista
Good Work Airdave

Joseph Plazo · 2 years ago

Noticed how Vista balks at large file operations? (and you see the screen hanging a bit)

This speeds up the process!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/93...

Serg V · 2 years ago

Very useful tips thank you, my notebook work faster now.

Kline · 2 years ago

Any questions/comments on this post before I go bang out some more complex methods of gaining some speed? I can elaborate on the later ones if anyone wishes...?

Rena · 2 years ago

[Window Title]
gpedit.msc

[Content]
Windows cannot find 'gpedit.msc'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.

[OK]

Phred · 2 years ago

It's been reported that gpedit.msc is not available in either of the two Vista 'Home' versions. That really should've been noted in the article.

Kline · 2 years ago

Ah, yes gpedit is not available on the home versions as you mentioned. I had forgotten about that fact. there are other ways to change this besides using group policy, but i cant remmeber off the top of my head.

if you'd like i can look it up.

Phred · 2 years ago

Yes, please. I -really- want to get rid of that damn blanking screen. If you've got a work-around, I'd appreciate seeing it.
Thanks.

Kline · 2 years ago

@Phred

open regedit
navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]

You should see a key called PromptOnSecureDesktop. Double-click this and change the value to 0

ReadyBoost · 1 year ago

You can find a list of ReadyBoost compatible USB drives here: http://www.readyboostmemory.com/

Ankur Mittal · 1 year ago

Thanx man for the info!!!!!!

Raman · 1 year ago

visit this too!

http://pluking.blogspot.com

Richard Noorajen · 1 year ago

Buy new PC with Core2duo/Quard/Extreme CPU, 2-4GB ram and congratulations speed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

John Walters · 1 year ago

Recently bought myself a new laptop with Vista Home on it. I'm new to Vista so this was a really interesting read. Cheers

John

Cesar · 1 year ago

Nice tips thanks. I am only not sure if ReadyBoost will be really work.

conversem · 1 year ago

Thanks for the tips. I have turned the UAC off a long time ago. But I still hear from people that they really hate vista because of that feature and they don't know how to turn it of or they think that it will harm their pc when they turn it off. So its a good think that you post the "how to" here.

Another tip is:
-Buy a new graphic card, RAM, processor or all :-P .

That's really the best cure.

Oyes another real tip here:
Go to the startmenu--> Type in: msconfig -->and it enter -->Then click on the tab "services --> remove everything which is not necessary but look out you can't remove everything! --> then go to the next tab "start up" and also remove unwanted processes.

This should make your start up a lot faster!

nikev · 1 year ago

I can't agree with Richard Noorajen's comment #32 ...

my system:

Intel E8400 Core 2 Duo overclocked @ 3.8GHz
2 GB Ballistix PC-2 8500's DDR2 Memory overclocked @ 1200MHz
Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT card
320GB Spinpoint-T SATA II HD
VISTA Ultimate + SP1
VISTA performance rating = 5.6

... despite tweaking VISTA's services I still have a total of 32 services running in the background eating up memory. When idle, with no applications running, VISTA is consuming 500 - 550MB of memory. Thats over 25% of my memory gone with VISTA doing nothing, just sitting there looking pretty!

I'm dual booting VISTA along side XP PRO, now lets compare the two, XP PRO services I have tweaked down to just 14 services running in the background, it idles using only 96MB of memory, and everything runs faster, applications open and run faster, gaming is faster, just about anything I want to do is faster on my XP system.

If you want pretty looks use VISTA, if you want a fast system use XP !

Patrick · 1 year ago

I tried out step no 3 but it did not function and I do not know why..anyway will try to do it again but the other steps are pretty impressive..

Patrick · 1 year ago

Ok, I am back and I must tell everyone that tips no.1 is really effective and you know what I did, I uncheck all the options and the whole vista layout is gone and I got the old version of windows theme, but the point is my system is going faster, way faster than I expected so I really appreciate you for taking the time to go through these and teach us how to do it..

shopper · 1 year ago

It is really effective for me to speed up windows vista. 

free 3g iphone · 1 year ago

Not really a twaek, but good housekeeping - install ccleaner (it's free) and run it every month - it will clear an awful lot of rubbish and speed up your machine

aloy · 1 year ago

With the spec of my PC now, your tips really helpful to speed up the Vista. Thanks

Cheap Mobile Calls · 1 year ago

As with the XP advice, I used this advice on my Vista machine(greedy with 2 machines, I know!). A lot of difference made, many thanks once again.

ram · 11 months ago

it is very useful , really it speeded up my vista bullshit

Kieran · 8 months ago

Really helpfull and it will REALLY go faster by disableing themes

Fenix · 8 months ago

Thank you!! Vista has really been a hog lately...

Razmi · 6 months ago

Thank you!!! superb

hello · 6 months ago

umm areo pretty chews non of your cpu as the gpu will tak control of all the affects vista was designed that way

Gravity · 4 months ago

Used ready booost! Im soo loving Vista rite now! =D

Speed Up Vista · 3 months ago

Good tips but... some of the tips are for experts, there are some softwares for novice that can help by just a click of a mouse

EFG · 2 months ago

So this is basically turning your Vista into a XP...