Windows Vista Tips for Best Performance

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Im having no luck with Windows XP lately due to a problem with windows installer so i decided to give this one a try.

My Laptop Specs are: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2/ CPU clockrate: 1,6GHz/ Display: 17"/ Resolution:1440x900/ HDD: 120 GB/ Spindle speed: 5400 rpm/ Memory: 1024 MB/ GPU: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100/ Dedicated GPU RAM: No/ 256vram shared
My Acer laptop also have all drivers to download for it.

Any tips to configure Vista for best performance, please let me know.
Also for giving compatiblity with some older xp programs too.

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For Vista I would say you are a little light on RAM as 1024MB isn’t that much for even for Vista Home Basic, especially when you are having to share 256MB with your video chip.

If it is another version of Vista then you will need to dispense with the bells and whistles, like Aero, etc.

Note: I don’t use Vista, this is information I have gleaned from forums, etc.

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Im using Home Premium, and yeah shall do that.

Any tips are welcome.

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I have Windows 7 and I find it performs better than Vista and I have 4GB RAM that I know it can only use 3GB but I think that the video RAM goes above this.

I use tweaking tools like TweakNow Power Pack and Ultimate Windows Tweaker to boost Windows 7’s performance but they will work on Vista:
http://www.tweaknow.com/powerPack.html
http://www.winvistaclub.com/Ultimate_Windows_Tweaker.html

I just found Thoosje Vista Tweaker with Google that looks interesting:
http://www.thoosje.com/Windows-Vista-Tweaker.html

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One suggestion:

http://bit.ly/NTeUj

careful! read before you tweak something.

edit :respecting rumpel’s opinion, link: http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/servicecfg.htm

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It’s just my opinion but I’d like people not to use url-shortener since I don’t know where it will redirect me and after checking bit.ly site…yes, I guess you can observe the access. Thank you.

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@ Rumpel

hello

dont worry… i’ll not post malicious links using url shortener…

i’ll consider your words and will stop using url shorteners… thank you.

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Thank you for your quick response. I know your comments are civil but you must know we are more or less paranoia type. :wink: