Performance tweaks for vista

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While some users will find the Sidebar and its widgets useful, many will desire the desktop real estate and underlying resources for other more productive uses. You can turn the Sidebar off by:. A Windows Vista installation disk essentially has all of the various editions of Vista included on that one disk. Which version gets installed is dependent on what product key you enter during the installation process. At some point you may want to upgrade your current version to a version with more bells and whistles, which would require a new Product Key.

See Figure E. Clicking that link brings up the screen shown in Figure F where you can enter in a different Product Key. While Windows Vista has desktop search that will theoretically allow you the option of merely typing in a location on your hard disk to get an Explorer view, some users will undoubtedly prefer to use Windows Explorer. By default, Windows Explorer in Vista shows you the files located in the user Documents folder. Follow these steps to have Windows Explorer start in a different folder:.

As a convenience, Windows Vista by default saves and displays a list of recently opened files and programs on the Start Menu. Ostensibly, this is supposed to make it easier to find a file or program.

However, many users would prefer that information to remain hidden. Here is how to turn it off:. For many users, the personal preference will be for those icons to be much smaller. Got a good link to a good Vista tweak site or article? Please submit it in the comments and feedback blog post. Don't bother submitting forum posts. I will not include them as they are usually an uncredited collection of someone else's work. TweakHound readers often get a discount off Acronis Products. Check the links for more info.

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Backup, Backup, Backup, Backup -You should understand the effect a tweak will have before you do it. But some of the people actually using Windows Vista are not satisfied with their experience as it is heavy on the system with so much of graphics effect.

So for all those who are just got bored from slow speed of windows vista even after upgrading the hardware here are some cool tips to make your windows vista as faster as you tweak windows xp in every aspect.

Some of the software like Windows Sidebar ,Windows media player ,Nero check and other applications being loaded at the start up but of no use but eating away the resources like memory and cpu. How to do it…. Services are background processes which keeps running waiting for a response, so if you dont use the application it still runs and uses resource. When browsing through shared folders and network computers Explorer can slow down when it is searching the local network for printers. This sounds like a great feature and may be useful for some but I would rather disable it to get maximum performance when browsing through folders.

How to do it….. I hope you enjoyed the post. We will continue our discussion on How to tweak your Vista performance Part -2 next part of this series.