Disclaimer
The Following are some tips and tricks to boost the vista speed. SOme tested some aren't. Try at your own risk
The single biggest irritation in Windows Vista is the UAC (User Account Control) system, especially for people that do a lot of tweaking. When you are trying to make configuration changes, it seems like every couple of seconds you are hitting another UAC prompt.
1) Disable UAC Entirely
Open up Control Panel, and click on User Accounts. You'll see a link for "Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off": Turn this off and reboot.
2)Registry Fix's:
Add Take Ownership to the Context Menu in Vista
Add Copy To Folder and Move To Folder to the Context Menu in Vista
Add Group Policy Editor to Control Panel in Vista
Add DiskCleanup to Right-Click Menu for a Drive
Add Control Panel to the Desktop Right-Click Menu in Vista
Test your Boot Speed
Louder Vista Sounds
Speed up the Menu Show Delay Time in Vista
Speed Up Shutdown in Vista
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3)Remove Optional and Probably Unnecessary Windows Vista Components
In the never-ending quest to rid your computer of unnecessary bloat, Windows Vista has a lot less options than prior versions, but you can still get rid of some of the extra Windows components that you don't need.
Open up Control Panel and go to the Programs and Features section. Find the link for "Turn Windows features on or off"
This dialog is quite self-explanatory… uncheck the things you don't want, and hit the OK button. Depending on the version of Vista you are running you might not see everything in the list.
Guidelines, Not Set In Stone
Just to get you started, here's a few tips on what an average user might want to enable or disable. The rules will be different for everybody, depending on your applications and needs, so don't take these as absolute.
4)Get back/Increase 20% of your Bandwidth in Vista.
For Vista Ultimate 32/64 bit Versions Only.
I dont know if this is known but you can turn off the bandwidth microsoft reserves for its own usage such as background updates and patches. Even though you see it greyed out or not set it has a hidden settings default value of 20%.
I like the full usage of my bandwidth so this firstly click Start / Run / Type in, GPEDIT.MSC
GPEDIT.MSC
then a Group Policy Object Editor will popup.
Under Local Computer Policy
click or expand Adminstrative Templates
next click or expand Network
then click on Qos Packet Scheduler (remember dont click on the expander here just click on Qos Packer Scheduler)
Now double click Limit reservable bandwidth
(You will see Not configured which is the default settings but in reality Vista has already taken 20% of your bandwidth to reserve for updates and stuff like that.)
Now click on Enabled then in the Bandwidth limit (%) set it to 0 then click apply then reboot.
5)Defragment your Hard Disks Daily..Defragment Your System Files (Pagefile and Registry)at least once a week in Vista
Raxco Perfect Disk 10 Professional
I myself think Raxco Perfect Disk 10 Professional is the best on the market.
7)Enable High Performance in your power and HHD Settings.
1)Right click on desktop/personalize/Screensaver/Change power settings/High Performance.
2)Right click Computer/properties/Advanced System Settings/Hardware/Device Manager/expand Disk drives/right click on your hard drive/properties/Policies/Enable advanced performance.
8)Manage your Start up Applications.
start/Run/msconfig/
To ckeck out what services are running on automatic and started.
1)Start/Run/services.msc find a app right click and choose Properties/ change to what ya like.
Now if you stoped a service or app from running at start up, It's service could still be running , so look at witch settings are set to Automatic and change the ones you want to manual.
10) Disable or Enable the Transient Multimon Manager (TMM) in Vista
Information:
Transient Multimon Manager (TMM) is a Microsoft Windows Vista operating system feature
targeted at improving the user experience of connecting and disconnecting displays,
particularly for the mobile user. This is the 2-3 second delay followed by a blank black
screen as Vista searches for monitor changes when you startup Vista. For more information
on TMM, see: Microsoft: Transient Multimon Manager (TMM)
NOTE:
TMM is enabled by default in Vista. Disabling TMM will get rid of that 2-3 second delay at
startup.
WARNING:
If you do not use a external monitor for a mobile PC or multiple monitors on a desktop PC,
then you can safely disable TMM. Do not disable TMM if you do.
1. Open the Start Menu.
A) Click on All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and Task Schedular.
B) Go to step 2.
OR
1. Open the Control Panel (Classic View).
A) Click on Administrative Tools -> Computer Management.
2. If prompted, click on Continue in the UAC prompt.
3. In the left pane, expand Task Scheduler, Task Scheduler Library, Microsoft, Windows,
and click on MobilePC. (See screenshot below)
4. In the middle pane, right click on TMM.
5. To Disable TMM -
A) Click on Disable.
B) Go to step 7.
6. To Enable TMM -
A) Click on Enable.
NOTE: TMM is enabled by default in Vista.
7. Close Task Scheduler.
8. Logoff and logon, or restart the computer to see the change.
11)AND MOST IMPORTANT !!!!!
Make A Complete PC Back Up Using Only Windows Functions and Perfect Disk:
When you get your pc where ya want it do as follows:
Right click on Computer , Start / Computer/ Right click hit manage/ Disc Management/
Forgot to add a good size for your back up drive is 45 GB: Just to be on the safe side. You can go bigger and store movies / music / whatever It's your choice. By the time I'm done installing everything back on my PC it's close to 41 GB. So better larger than smaller, I hate that not enough space error. Another tip is to clean temp files and delete all but last restore point before making a complete back up.
Now go to start / all programs / Accessories/ System Tools/ BackUp Status and Configuration /
90% of PC users dont know how to do a complete PC backup.. I just read, so I hope this will save ya alot of trouble.
No third party software needed, taking up your drive space and alot of software will cause your pc not to boot..
Boot from the disk you made above , keep hitting F12 key continually , then boot from dvd rom drive. Repair your computer / then fing com/ pc backup option..
Vista Ultimate is great all it needs is some TLC with a few tweaks..
Hopefully this will help somebody!
I Spent alot of time on this I hope you EnJoy...
12) OPPS Forgot this one, set your page file to recommended value before you defrag your system files.
Start / right click computer/ properties / advanced system settings / advanced / performance settings / advanced / virtual memory change / set both to recommend value
