gHacks technology news » vista-performance http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:33:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Vista Services Optimizer http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/30/vista-services-optimizer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/30/vista-services-optimizer/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:20:05 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=9450 Vista Services Optimizer is a free Windows Vista software program for computers running the Microsoft operating system. It can be used to diagnose and tune the Services configuration of the system to eliminate problems and increase overall system performance. Services Diagnostics is probably the first option that should be run after installation and start of Vista Services Optimizer. The user has check or uncheck several information about his computer system, among them if he is using a printer, a scanner, digital camera or if the computer is connected to a network or Internet connection. The eight choices will aid the diagnostic tool in determining if the current settings of the computer system can be optimized.

The test won’t take longer than a few seconds and a page with results will be displayed in the end. The services optimizer will display its findings and suggest possible fixes for problems that have been found. The diagnostic results can be saved and exported to various formats and there are also links to the automatic and manual TuneUp parts of the software.

Similar questions have to be answered before starting the automatic tuneup process. A few new options are added including the one to choose between standard and maximum service optimization. The optimization ends with the click on the Apply Changes button. The program requires a restart of the computer after applying the changes.

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The differences between automatic and manual tweaking of the Windows Vista Services are the options that are presented to the user. The manual tuneup provides access to four tabs and dozens of options to check. The tabs divide the process in performance, network, security and tuneup entries.

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Another option is the creation of so called service profiles which can be used to run optimized profiles in certain situations. Cautious users will be delighted to note that it is possible to restore a previous state without difficulties from within the software program.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/30/vista-services-optimizer/feed/ 5 Windows Vista Performance and Tuning Guide http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/01/windows-vista-performance-and-tuning-guide/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/01/windows-vista-performance-and-tuning-guide/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:43:01 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5788 Microsoft has released a Windows Vista Performance Tuning Guide as a 14 paged PDF and XPS file that can be downloaded for free. The interesting aspect of this release is that Microsoft has actually put together a guide that many experienced computer users feel quite comfortable with and that could help inexperienced users increase the responsiveness and speed of Windows Vista.

The guide includes tips like disabling unneeded startup items, disabling unwanted services, disabling visual effects or to adjust search settings. That’s a basic set of tasks that most experienced users do after installing an operating system. It also means that experienced users will probably not find anything new in the guide that they do not already know about.

The Windows Vista Performance and Tuning Guide is therefor clearly aimed at computer users who do not have that experience but want a faster Windows Vista operating system. It’s definitely a very nice read with good instructions to guide the users through the changes that they can make.

If you have the time head over to Microsoft and download the 1.1 Megabyte guide.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/01/windows-vista-performance-and-tuning-guide/feed/ 6 Windows Vista Services Explained http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/08/windows-vista-services-explained/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/08/windows-vista-services-explained/#comments Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:01:25 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/08/windows-vista-services-explained/ Do you remember Blackvipers services recommendations for Windows XP ? The site helped me a lot when I started using Windows XP by explaining the services that were running on my system. I just the information on his site to disable services that I would never need which had the effect that it speed up my system and hardened its security at the same time.

SpeedyVista is offering a similar list for Windows Vista and I suggest that anyone who likes his system clean, secure and fast is going to check the suggestions out. The list of services in Vista can still be accessed by typing services.msc in the command line.

The table of services has the following structure. It starts with the service name and an explanation of it. It then lists the status of the service in Vista Home, Vista Business and Vista Ultimate and finishes with recommendations for safe settings and tweaked ones.

All services link to additional information that list the dependencies and requirements which is a good way of checking if it is safe to disable the service. If another service that you have to use depends on the service that you want to disable you can’t do it.

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