How to make Vista runs faster??

Does we gt any way to make d vista OS runs faster, like boot faster and
performance better????


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stephen0606

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:39:56 -0500, stephen0606 wrote:

> Does we gt any way to make d vista OS runs faster, like boot faster and
> performance better????

Same as any OS, disable stuff you don't need, and I've heard SP1 helps
quite a lot as well. (I haven't installed it yet, going to tonight)

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Andrew Davis
IT Administrator
WestGate Church

Faster CPU 5000+ min and at least 2gig memory

"stephen0606" <> wrote in message
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> Does we gt any way to make d vista OS runs faster, like boot faster and
> performance better????
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> stephen0606

yes, there is all you need to do, is make a robot with legs and put your
computer which has vista on the robot, other than that, not a lot will make
it go faster.

altho some advice, disable everything you don't need, everytime i buy a
computer with vista, i disable "windows sidebar". in my opinion that is the
biggest cpu and ram hogger. and i also disable programs that i don't use
often which was pre-installed when i bought it, since when you run them,
they usually load all it needs to work properly, the only thing those icons
near the clock do, other than slow down your pc, is make the program load
faster, but if you don't need them often then disabling them is better.

also, if you look in windows taskbar and look under processes you might see
some programs which aren't showing in the taskbar icons, for example:
windows media player likes to hide there sometimes, i always take a peek
into taskbar manager so that no unnecesary programs are running.

"stephen0606" <> wrote in message
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> Does we gt any way to make d vista OS runs faster, like boot faster and
> performance better????
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> stephen0606

use classic menus, turn off all the special effects
I set to 'adjust for best performance' and let windows manage the virtual
memory.
using a fixed sized cache isn't good IMHO.

"John Barnes" <> wrote in message
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> Faster CPU 5000+ min and at least 2gig memory
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> "stephen0606" <> wrote in message
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>> Does we gt any way to make d vista OS runs faster, like boot faster and
>> performance better????
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>> stephen0606
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Many people are having a problem in regards to either a slow boot up, o
that windows is slow to load Programs
I am using a SATA RAID 0 config, and even with 4GB of ram This ca
result in heavy fragmentation over two drives, and a slow system
especially after recording tv on MCE or any other activity that write
large files to disk

Deframenting speeds up the system dramatically, BUT using the defaul
defragmenter doesn't defrag file fragments bigger than 64MB or eve
include them in the fragmentation statistic

When you have file fragments for one program scattered all over you
hard drive, it takes time to recompile them in order to execute th
program/data in question. Consolidating all file fragments regardless o
their size will result in faster access and execution. Now multiply thi
by hundreds of thousands of individual file fragments that the cpu mus
recompile to execute in proper sequence per Windows or User command a
the same time. I have seen the GUI show 0% fragmentation where the -
command will show 10% fragmentation on a 640GB SATA RAID 0 drive- that
alot of little individual file fragments scattered over a modest siz
drive...

But this is only part of the problem, now add into the equation fil
system errors and bad sectors on the disk...and even the fastest syste
will slow to a crawl over time

I strongly recoomend not using registry cleaners-unless you know wha
you are doing-otherwise, chances are very good that the Corruption i
may cause will require Windows re-install to fix

Here are two steps to a faster, better performing system
note- these steps will perform a full defrag (defrag c: -w), and wil
file file system errors and attempt recovery of bad disk sectors

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/16...ter.html?filte

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rive0108

If you do a lot, or a little ripping and burning you should partition about
a 20 GB or so on the fastest Hdd in your system. Thats the only thing you
should use that 20GB partition for, ripping and burning.
You will burn faster and the the 20GB partision will defrag much quicker.
Makes all those jobs somewhat quicker. This of course greatly reduces the
fragmention caused by ripping and burning to only one large Hdd thats also
used for everything else you do. That will go a long way to speeding up your
system.

H Brown
"rive0108" <> wrote in message
news:...
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> Many people are having a problem in regards to either a slow boot up, or
> that windows is slow to load Programs.
> I am using a SATA RAID 0 config, and even with 4GB of ram This can
> result in heavy fragmentation over two drives, and a slow system-
> especially after recording tv on MCE or any other activity that writes
> large files to disk.
>
> Deframenting speeds up the system dramatically, BUT using the default
> defragmenter doesn't defrag file fragments bigger than 64MB or even
> include them in the fragmentation statistics
>
> When you have file fragments for one program scattered all over your
> hard drive, it takes time to recompile them in order to execute the
> program/data in question. Consolidating all file fragments regardless of
> their size will result in faster access and execution. Now multiply this
> by hundreds of thousands of individual file fragments that the cpu must
> recompile to execute in proper sequence per Windows or User command at
> the same time. I have seen the GUI show 0% fragmentation where the -w
> command will show 10% fragmentation on a 640GB SATA RAID 0 drive- thats
> alot of little individual file fragments scattered over a modest size
> drive...
>
> But this is only part of the problem, now add into the equation file
> system errors and bad sectors on the disk...and even the fastest system
> will slow to a crawl over time.
>
> I strongly recoomend not using registry cleaners-unless you know what
> you are doing-otherwise, chances are very good that the Corruption it
> may cause will require Windows re-install to fix.
>
> Here are two steps to a faster, better performing system.
> note- these steps will perform a full defrag (defrag c: -w), and will
> file file system errors and attempt recovery of bad disk sectors.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/16...er.html?filter
>
>
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> rive0108

The only problem with a 20GB HDD partition for Windows, is you severely
impair Vista's Shadow Storage. This will provide almost no previous versions
to restore to (shadow Coy) in Business versions and up, and the ability to
Perform a System restore In all versions.

It is strongly suggested to create regular data backups and images of
Windows if setting Windows Partition to such a small size. Otherwise you will
be re-installing Vista when you could have simply restored.

I personally have used Restore and shadow copy many times. I also image my
620GB RAID 0 array every 6 months, and perform Weeekly File backups.