10 Useful Tips to Speed up Your Vista Performance

Posted October 19th, 2008 by John Lewis

1. Regularly Update Your Hardware Drivers

It is vital of importance to update your hardware drivers, like graphic cards and embedded graphic card. My Vista Home version could not support the Aero theme and after I updated the drivers for the embedded graphic card, everything is just going on well. Therefore, I strongly suggest that all the average PC users to regularly update their hardware drivers to make sure that any bugs or extra functions have been updated from the original manufacturers.

2. Disable Unneeded Windows Functions

Open the Control Panel, choose Add/Remove Applet, click the left-side list to enable or disable the Windows functions, and then clean up the unneeded functions which are associated with the specific information when you move the mouse hover it. I leave only XPS Viewer, Portable Storage Management and Compressing functions.

3. Use Advanced PC Tweaker

It is the most comprehensive tool I have ever seen with so many options to improve your PC performance.

4. Disable System Services

Open Start menu, go to the Run command where you can type services.msc command to pop up the control panel. Right click on the items you want to disable and set the service type to be automatically run, manually or disable. I recommend to close the following services:

Computer Browser

Distributed Link Tracking Client

IKE and AuthIP IP Keying Modules

Offline Files

Remote Registry

Tablet pc Input Service (unless you‘re using a tablet PC)

Windows Error Reporting

5. Remove the Startup Programs

Go to the Run command and type msconfig to choose the program that will automatically run at the system startup. I have only checked the Windows Defender and the audio application. However, you could not remove the anti virus program option.

6. Disable the Programs at the System Tray

7. Use ReadyBoost function

If you have large volume of USB Flash memory, right click on it and set it as virtual memory that will definitely boost up the read/write speed.

8. Remove the Special Effects on the System Interface

9. Advanced Settings

If your motherboard and hard drivers can support SATA, then make sure you check the Enable Caching at the property of the hard drives.

10. Defrag Your Hard Drivers.

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