Windows Vista Speed Tweaks

Posted by Jaren
Posted on October 13, 2007
Filed Under PC Stuffs |

My friend just got a new install of Windows Vista and He’s Complaining that Windows Vista is so damn slow so here I am to the rescue… this is an addition to my Previous Post on Windows Vista : Tips to make it go faster

Windows Vista Tweaks — Tips to Speed Up Windows Vista

Turn off Windows Search Indexing

Windows Vista search indexing may impact slightly impact your performance because its constantly scanning and reviewing the files on your system and index it to make your search quick. Although it may seem handy, it can make the performance slower.

To disable constant indexing:

Click the Start Orb -> Click Computer
Right Click on the C: Drive
On General Tab, Uncheck Index this drive for faster searching
Select Include subfolders and files

Turn off Automatic Windows Defender

You can choose to let Windows Defender run automatically in real-time for protection against malwares, spywares but to conserve the precious performance power, then just let it run once a week. Although the even if you disable the automatice feature you it’s still povides you protection so don’t worry.

To disable Automatic Windows Defender

Click the Start Orb -> Click Control Panel
Select Windows Defender
Choose Tools from the top menu
Select Options
Uncheck Auto Start at the bottom of the window

Speed up Windows Vista Boot Up and shave a couple of Seconds

Booting up with Windows Vista can be time-consuming because of all the hardware drivers loading everytime for specifically for your desktop/laptop and that means all the hardware drivers installed are loaded and initialized by Vista during boot-up. Performance slows down because there’s a LOT before I first applied this tweaks my boot up was about 3 minutes.So after boot up we will use the Device Manager to disable unused/unneeded hardware devices

Click the Start menu -> type devmgmt.msc in the Search box -> hit Enter.
On the Device Manager -> browse by “device type” you can see which devices are connected and currently running or disabled.

To disable a device -> right-click the device name -> select Disable.
To enable a device -> right-click the device name and select Enable.

This is especially for Laptop users, since I tested this procedures on my Laptop. You can Disable certain Windows features that you rarely and actually don’t use

Click the Start Orb -> Click Control Panel
Select Program Features
On the left panel, select Turn Windows Features on or off

Now Disable the following :

Indexing Service
Remote Differential Compression
Tablet PC Optional Components
Windows DFS Replication Service
Windows Fax & Scan (unless you use a modem for faxing)
Windows Meeting Space (unless you use the Live Meeting Service)

Also Turn off Windows Startup and Shutdown Sounds. It takes a bit of work to play the sound, so make it easy on Windows Vista and turn the sounds off.

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Comments

4 Responses to “Windows Vista Speed Tweaks”

McBilly on October 14th, 2007 2:23 pm

Holy cow Jaren. You really know you’re stuffs. Good job on tweaking vista and making it faster.

I might really reconsider switching back to vista. ^^

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Jaren on October 14th, 2007 2:29 pm

thanks… hehehe… that’s what you get for just staying round the house all day and do nothing but just play around with your laptop!..

glad you like it… may have some more tips lined up.

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