Best Tips to Speed Up Windows Vista

01

The amount of virtual memory which handles automatically by Vista is not enough to boost your performance. So you can speedup Vista performance by setting up it manually. It's better double the amount of your physical RAM as virtual RAM amount.



To do that go through bellow steps,


Click Start > Control Panel > System and Maintenance > System > In the Tasks Panel > click Advanced System Settings



Then clik on,
'Advanced' tab > 'Performance' > Settings


Under the,
Advanced tab > Virtual Memory > click on Change


Then uncheck the "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" check box .


•Select the C: drive (Or the drive contains the paging file)


Click on 'Custom size' then enter the desired size in both the Initial size and Maximum size boxes.


It is better to double the amount of your RAM.

     Ex: If you have 2048MB (2GB) of RAM, you should set both the Initial size      and Maximum size to 4096MB


Click Set > OK.




02

As the second step you can turn off unnecessary services that may cause to reduce your Vista performance.


To do this,


Click Start > Run > type services.msc > OK


Below list will show you each service that start automatically by default with Vista which you can disable ;


• Computer Browser

• Distributed Link Tracking Client


• IKE and AuthIP IP Keying Modules


• Offline Files


• Remote Registry


• Tablet PC Input Service (unless you're using a tablet PC)


• Windows Error Reporting



And you Should Not disable below services;


• Multimedia Class Scheduler


• Plug and Play


• Superfetch


• Task Scheduler


• Windows Audio


• Windows Driver Foundation


Remember to focus only on 'Automatically' startup services. And turn off the ones that you can recognize as unnecessary. If you got a problem after turning off or if u needed one of these services back you can easily turn on them.



Also you can follow,
Start > Run > type msconfig > OK
Then you will direct to the System Configuration window. At the System Configuration window under the 'Startup' tab you may see some another programs that starts automatically when you boot up the system.


So you can avoid these programs from 'Auto Starting' by unchecking them. As same as the earlier step you can easily turn on them when you needed.



03

Turn off Aero or disable some features as you chose. To do this check out this post.

04

ReadyBoost is another option to use to ramp up Vista performance, by providing additional memory. The difference with this method and installing additional physical memory is that ReadyBoost uses flash memory that usually resides on a USB drive. The trick is making sure that the USB drive has enough memory for ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost is also used to facilitate SuperFetch, an updated version of Windows XP's prefetcher which performs analysis of boot-time disk usage patterns and creates a cache which is used in subsequent system boots. When a USB drive is connected, Vista will ask you if you want to use the drive to improve system performance. You can allocate a specific amount of memory to use for ReadyBoost. The extra RAM may provide a noticeable boost in system performance.




05

Another way to improve Vista's performance is using Disk Defragmenter.

Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter.

From here you can select either ‘Defragment Now’ which will begin the process immediately, or ‘Modify Schedule’ which will tell Vista to defragment at a set time.




06

As a general tip uninstall all unnecessary programs from your computer.



I hope this will help you to increase Windows Vista Performance.


Thank You!


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