12 Windows Vista Tweaks To Boost Your PC’s Performance

Our tips on finding and weeding out system performance hogs, optimizing memory, and restraining Vista’s features will make your system soar.

Soon after Windows Vista came out, many suggestions for tweaking the operating system to improve performance emerged. Unfortunately, most of those tweaks turned out to be pretty disappointing: they either provided the illusion of better performance but did nothing of substance, or they were rehashes of existing Windows XP tips that might note even be valid on Vista. Still, there are plenty of things that can be done to make Vista run better. Over the past several months I’ve kept an eye peeled as to what actually works, what doesn’t, and why. With less work than you might think, it’s entirely possible to have Vista running quite snappily.

I’ve assembled here the fruits of that personal research into what works when it comes to making Vista run well. I’ve listed these in roughly descending order of effectiveness, with most effective first.

Read the 12 tips at InformationWeek

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