9 Ways to Speed Up Windows Vista

Several small adjustments may be performed on your computer that will speed up Windows Vista and make the machine run faster and smoother.

1. Remove unneeded programs from the Startup process to speed up Windows Vista. By making sure only programs that are needed are being loaded into RAM memory and run in the background. Removing items from the Startup process will help keep the computer from ‘bogging down’ with too many applications running at the same time in the background.

2. Disable User Access Control to speed up Windows. User Access Control (UAC) uses a considerable block of resources and many users find this feature annoying. To turn UAC off, open the into the Control Panel and type in ‘UAC’into the search input field. A search result of ‘Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off’ will appear. Follow the prompts to disable UAC.

3. Disable or turn down the Aero graphics features to speed up Windows Vista. Though Vista’s graphics features are great, they are also resource hogs. To speed up Windows Vista, disable or reduce the number of resources allowed for Aero use. To do this, open a command prompt window and type ‘systempropertiesperformance’. On the Visual Effects tab, uncheck the box – ‘Animate Windows when minimizing and maximizing’.

4. Tweak the Index Service. Vista’s new search features are also resource hogs. To do this, right-click on the C drive in Windows Explorer. Click on the ‘General’ tab. Uncheck the ‘Index this Drive for Faster Searching’ option.

5. Disable the side bar to speed up Windows Vista. Though these gadgets and widgets are fun, they utilize a HUGE amount of resources. Right-click on the Windows Sidebar option in the system tray in the lower right corner. Select the option to disable.

6. Tweak your programs. Often, having several programs running at the same time is the culprit stealing resources in Windows Vista. Sometimes, programs like image editors included with print drivers will run from startup, even when not in use. To speed up Windows Vista, uninstall programs that you do not use.

7. Enable Advanced Performance on a SATA drive to speed up Windows. For whatever reason, this option is disabled by default. To do this, open the Device Manger by typing ‘devmgmt.msc’ from the command line. Go to the disk Drives tab. Right-click the SATA drive. Select Properties from the menu. Select the Policies tab. Check the ‘Enable Advanced Performance’ box.

8. To speed up Windows Vista use of USB drives, repeat Step 7 but this time, open the ‘Policies’ tab for the USB drive. Select Optimize for Performance.

9.Run a Registry Cleaner software: this kind of software will delete all the registry entry which you are not using anymore.

These 9 steps will help you to speed up Windows Vista and become more productive during your workday.