gHacks technology news » speed http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Increasing the performance of Windows Vista http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/16/increasing-the-performance-of-windows-vista/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/16/increasing-the-performance-of-windows-vista/#comments Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:55:23 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/16/increasing-the-performance-of-windows-vista/ My first impression of Windows Vista was that it was a very shiny operating system with lots of useless stuff (for me) that wasted lots of valuable ram on my system. Things like the sidebar which may be useful for some are absolutely useless to me. Besides that they use ram. I have decided to remove everything that I would not need to increase performance on the system.

This tips might also be useful to those users who use an old computer with Windows Vista. My Vista installation is using about 430 megabytes of Ram in default state with only one instance of Internet Explorer 7 running as well. The following paragraphs contain a list of changes that I made and their effect on the system.

  • Disabling the Sidebar
  • Changing the Design to Windows Classic
  • Changing the Background image to one color
  • Disabling the Windows Firewall and Bitdefender

Those changes alone dropped the ram usage by 60 megabytes to 370 with one Internet Explorer window open. There are many settings that can still be tweaked to gain even more performance, for instance removing unnecessary services and indexing. I will take a look at those in the coming days.

The question of course remains why you would like to change to Vista if you disable everything “new” that Vista offers. I personally think that it introduces lots of gimmicks that freeware on XP offered for years. And if it is security that you want you should take a look at Linux instead.

 

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/16/increasing-the-performance-of-windows-vista/feed/ 6 10 Ways to speed up Windows xp http://www.ghacks.net/2005/12/03/10-ways-to-speed-up-windows-xp/ http://www.ghacks.net/2005/12/03/10-ways-to-speed-up-windows-xp/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:38:13 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=198 Everton Blair over at connectedinternet.co.uk wrote a nice beginners guide on how to increase the speed of your windows xp operating system.

The tips are all great ones that I myself use on my windows xp system. Tips include general ones that you´ve read on many sites like disabling indexing service but also advanced ones that beginners should not know about. Those include disabling performance counters, running Bootvis for faster boot times and removing fonts that the user and windows are not using.

He could have added more detail to some of the tips but a Google search or a comment will help you receive the answer to your question(s).

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