Setting Up Vista for Speed Guide

[stew2]

Anyway, excellent guide. Just did all of it today from a clean install.

I feel like I deserve a cookie or something. This took like 12 hours haha ^^

Yeah it takes a while but i think its worth it :D Oh and pacinitaly even though your hard drive is new it may not support this featue as its a laptop hard drive. I wouldnt worry about it as its only one tweak you are missing out on.

 

[pacinitaly]

Anyway, excellent guide. Just did all of it today from a clean install.

I feel like I deserve a cookie or something. This took like 12 hours haha ^^

Yeah it takes a while but i think its worth it :D Oh and pacinitaly even though your hard drive is new it may not support this featue as its a laptop hard drive. I wouldnt worry about it as its only one tweak you are missing out on.

true,
I just love tweaking. I've done so many, I forgot 50% of them. Thats why I have not done a clean install, I just keep cloning the HDD's

 

[Frostmourne]

Great guide except you could adjust two things:

1) Setting a set page file size may worsen peformance as Vista manages memory much better in the page file than any other Windows OS and performance may degrade if a set size is chosen.

2) None of the services should be adjusted unless you know exactly what service depends on what. If you take a look at this book: Amazon.com: Windows Vista Inside Out, Deluxe Edition (9780735625242): Ed Bott, Carl Siechert, Craig Stinson: Books every service is listed along with recommendations. Less than 4 are changed from their defaults.

Otherwise a very good guide. Tune Up Utilties has to be the very best of all clean up utilities.

 

[stew2]

Hi Fostmourne im glad you like the guide. Just two things though:

1- I set a page file min and max size to a level that i know il never use all of. This means the size wont change and vista doeasnt have to set these sizes itself every time it boots up. This reduces fragmentation on the page file and also speeds up boot time a little bit.


2- Iv never looked at that book but heres five just to show you what i would change:

• Remote registry- Disable this as it allows people to modify your registry from over the internet
• Windows Search- Disable this to reduce the noise and temp etc of your hard drive. It doesnt work properly anyway so is not needed.
• Offline files - If you dont synchronize files between computers, disable this service or set it to manual
• Fax service - can be diabled if you dont have a fax machine
• Print Spooler - Disable this if you dont have a printer

There are many more services you should change the settings of if you are confident in doing so. As iv said before just change the ones you want to a setting of Manual so they are available when you need them but dont start every time you boot up your pc. In Windows 7 they have reduced the amount of Automatic Services as the realised the amount in Vista is just plain silly and unneeded.

But keep the suggestions coming as they are most welcome and yeah i agree TuneUpUtilities is the best available.

 

[Sicknerd]

about step no. 4. when i use the advance disk cleanup. which one do i tick and which one do leave out?

 

[stew2]

Hi Sicknerd

You've probably worked it out but il try to help anyway. If you click on the text of each tickable object then it will give a brief description of what each one is. I have mine set to clean everything except the thumbnail cache. You are quite safe ticking them all.

 

[stew2]

Iv just installed Windows 7 so my time at Vistax64 forums is over. I hope this guide helps some of you and that any questions on this guide are answered by other forum members here.

Bye :D