Speed Up Your Vista

As with XP, in Vista you can speed up performance by sacrificing the visual effects :

1. Go to the Control Panel, System and Maintenance, System Properties
2. Then, click Advanced (Tab) and settings. Set the radio button in 'Adjust for best performance'.

This may produce a marginal improvement on a low spec machine, but it I could not detect a faster response on a machine with a 1.2 Ghz processor and 2GB of RAM. In truth, I was under-whelmed by this Adjust for best performance. A better way to truly speed up your Vista machine is to buy a 1GB USB RAM stick and use Vista's ReadyBoost feature.

Trap: As you adjust for best performance, you may inadvertently turn off the Aero graphics, particularly if you experiment with the Custom settings.


Source : computerperformance.co.uk