07-19-2008
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Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Toronto, Ontario
Posts: 155
| Fixing Vista - Some of these are also XP tweaks
- Go into security center - turn off UAC.
- In the security centre - on the left-hand tab, select "change how security centre contacts me" and say no messages or popups.
- Right-click on your hard drive in my computer. - Go to policies and turn on performance mode, write caching and advanced performance - it says "data can be lost" but really the only data that can be lost is the pagefile, unsaved data in running programs, etc. which you would probably lose most of anyway. If you have a line conditioner or UPS don't worry about the whole data loss thing. A line conditioner will blunt the impact of the blackout and the power surge after the blackout and will prevent more data loss than would happen anyway.
- For all your external drives, turn on advanced performance - just be more careful with clicking safely remove.
- For a bit of laughing at Windows - enter Defender and tell it to disable itself at startup. You could do this other ways - and should as it hogs even more CPU cache than Norton. However, this way is the most ironic.
- Right click on all your drives and turn off indexing. Searching is not noticeably slower - really - and it will give you full searches, not just of the start menu, etc. This prevents a crap-load of hard drive grinding and speeds up file copying, etc.
- Make the pagefile have the same starting and max size. It should be the same size as RAM - and if you have 4gb it won't cause a slowdown as it will not be used, only reserved. The pagefile prevents memory related crashes as windows has a place to dump RAM in an emergency.
- Uninstall unused programs - if you have iTunes/quicktime, get rid of real player, etc. Go through all your programs - and google them. If you find out they are unneeded - zap them. Don't just uninstall things - as many are surprising needed. For example, Bonjour is part of iTunes.
- If you have the Norton suite, that really sucks. Keep it, as even if it is a hog, it's still the best. Uninstall systemworks though - it should be killed systemf-cker. If you want the same utilities - get defraggler and CCleaner. Don't get defraggler if you have 64-bit editions, b/c even though it will run, it will cause wierd clumps of data at the end of the drive (still unexplained - although the current version is a beta). If you really don't want to install these, be aware that they can be put on a USB drive and run off it due to their compact and efficient size.
- Disable WMP services from starting at boot-up. They are the DRM protection services that are always complained about.
- Get the newest GPU drivers. Trust me. Uninstall nTune if you have it. Just use coolbits or in the new control panel, rivatuner if you really must OC, although I don't see a point in OCing a GPU. If you have SLI, these won't work (unless you are using the old control panel, where you can get coolbits to work for SLI). Be aware that SLI is barely OCable and it will cause instability, so don't even try it. Video card crashes are one of the major reasons for crashes in Vista - so stop OCing if you experience frequent "white-out" freezes (if you have them, you will know wtf I am talking about).
- Enjoy a new computing experience.
I will add suggestions to this list. - Please leave comments. |
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