System Preparation: Tweak Insurance (1-3) |
- Back up and restore Windows Vista Registry
- How to edit the Windows Vista Registry
- Creating a system restore point in Windows Vista
System Preparation: Hardware (4-10) |
- Add more memory (RAM)!
- Update the motherboard BIOS
- Update hardware drivers
- Test the Computer's RAM
- Optimize the memory timings and voltage
- Overclock the processor and memory
- Overclock the videocard
First Boot - The Essential Tweaks (11-20) |
- Turn off User Account Control (UAC)
- Set Automatic Update to download only
- Learn to use the search bar as a Run command.
- Disable automatic device driver searching and installation
- Use Windows Defender to disable startup programs
- Power options to high performance.
- Enable DVD playback in Vista Basic and Vista Business.
- Make the 64-bit version of Windows Media Player 11 the default player in Windows Vista x64
- Update vista!
- Run programs with administrator rights
Windows Vista Performance Boosting Tweaks (21-53) |
- Disable search indexing
- Limit start menu search options
- Remove remote differential compression
- Boost external hard drive performance
- Enable Readyboost on any flash memory device.
- Speed up SATA drives in Vista.
- Assign specific CPUs to applications
- Assign priorities to applications
- Create shortcuts for running applications with certain CPU/Priority settings
- Disable unnecessary services
- De-automate Windows Defender
- Upgrade to Vista Service Pack 1 Beta (SP1-beta)
- Disable superfetch for computers with less memory
- Boot Vista with all available processors
- Force 32-bit Windows Vista to use all your memory by enabling PAE
- Used advanced disk cleanup tools to regain more space
- Shut down services faster for faster shutdown.
- Disable the Vista sidebar
- Set the Sidebar to low priority
- Kill the RSS feed sidebar gadget
- Disable automatic backup/system restore
- Disable hibernate on desktops
- Stop scheduled disk defragmentation
- Move the Vista paging file for better performance
- Set a fixed paging file size
- Rebuild the paging file to optimize performance
- Move search index to another physical drive
- Disable the low disk space check
- Disable 8.3 name creation
- Disable last access file update
- Disable unneeded hardware
- Check bootup and shutdown times with the Windows Vista Event viewer
- Check your system's health in 60 seconds or less
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Mastering & Streamlining the Vista Interface
(54-83) |
- Use checkboxes for multiple file selection
- Enable Windows classic desktop appearance
- Reduce start menu opening delay
- Disable mandatory thumbnail previews
- Remove unnecessary Windows Vista features
- Start task manager directly
- Run sidebar gadgets without the sidebar
- Backup your entire computer with Vista Backup and restore (Vista Business and Ultimate only)
- Essential hotkey shortcuts for Vista
- Return the run command to the start menu
- Using the new 'resource overview' monitor in Windows Vista
- Use the Vista reliability checker to track system issues
- Disable warning sounds and add visual cues
- Create desktop shutdown and reboot icons
- Good sidebar gadgets to have (and not to have)
- Run any application as administrator with a few keystrokes
- Configure Windows Vista autoplay manually to suit your preferences
- Disable security notifications
- Tweak the mouse scroll wheel
- Add Encrypt / Decrypt to Right Click Menu
- Disable 'GUI boot' to speed startup
- Add administrator account to welcome screen.
- Change volume levels for individual applications
- Display your backed-up DVD media in Vista Media Center (applies to Vista Home Premium and Ultimate only)
- Reveal Vista's hidden context menu power tools
- Be the super user
- Fix the Start Menu Power button
- Enable verbose shutdown messages (Vista business and Ultimate only)
- Customize Vista desktop performance
- The ultimate Vista performance Tweak (not really)
'Aero'-Dynamics - Customizing the Vista Aeroglass Interface (84-86) |
- Disable Aero (All versions except Vista Basic)
- Disable Aero transparency (All versions except Vista Basic)
- Disable min/max window animation in Aero (All versions except Vista Basic)
Network & Internet Performance Tweaks
(87-91) |
- Enable more simultaneous downloads in Internet Explorer 7
- Enable more simultaneous Downloads in Firefox
- Fix large file copying problems in Windows Vista
- Disable IPV6 in Windows Vista
- Refresh shortcut for wireless network searching
Vista Tuning Tips for Notebooks (92-94) |
- Disable Transient Multi-monitor manager to speed up boot times
- Tweak your Vista power saving options for more travel time
- Disable Aero interface to save big on battery life
Windows Vista Gaming Tips (95-99) |
- Update Vista's DirectX9 files for better game compatibility
- Disable background features while gaming
- Run directX 9 games in Windows XP compatibility mode
- Fix/enable 3D sound in some games
- Poor game performance? Try DirectX9 mode
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2 Responses to “Beginners Guides: 99 Performance Tips and Tweaks for Windows Vista”
November 14, 2010 at 5:56 PM
The problem with Vista isn't that it's crap, or has a bad UI, it's that the initial adopters gave it a bad wrap and now that is continuously being propagated throughout the industry. I've heard people say they hate Vista but then they tell me they haven't even used it. Then Win7 comes along, which is basically the same thing, and everyone loves it -- why? A new name.
November 22, 2010 at 6:00 PM
@FettesPs i agree with you. vista has no prob. at all. it was the initial approach people give to it that caused the whole issue onground now. Thnks also for dropping the hints.
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