Microsoft has published a handbook with tuning tips for Windows Vista. The Windows Vista Performance and Tuning Guide is for anyone willing to download free. It provides end users and corporate clients advice on how to make Vista legs.
The English-speaking guide for a faster Vista is called "Overview Series: Windows Vista Performance and Tuning" and is available as a PDF and as an XPS file. The download is large at 1.1 MB.
The Microsoft Advisor has tips on various ways of increasing performance summary:
• Changes to the configuration, the response times and improve the starting behavior of the operating system
• The correct use of the hardware
• Increase the reliability and security of the system
• Proper system monitoring to detect potential problems in advance
Most of the tips and tricks are ideal for end users of Windows Vista. But Microsoft keeps ready for enterprise customers, some tips to achieve a performance gain in a professional environment.
But before you do now a leap into the air and dreaming of a significant performance boost, you should first read the tips alone. Because Microsoft has not reinvented the wheel, but mostly already known and scattered across various Internet forums, and also from the PC World forth sufficiently known simply analyzed only clear advice. Some sounds almost trivial, such as the tip, turn off visual effects. Even something as valuable appears to point to the desktop search in Vista, the indexing system can be quite slow when the search is configured incorrectly.
Interesting for notebook users: Microsoft declares once more the different configuration options to achieve a balanced mix between performance and the longest possible battery life,like VGN-FZ410E Battery.
Under the heading Hardware Tuning covered topics such as Windows ReadyBoost, which can be extended by the use of a suitable USB flash drive or a memory card the computer cache. Similarly, Windows will be presented ReadyDrive technology.
Another section deals with the starting performance of Vista and closely connected to the save Schlaf-/Ruhemodus ("Energy"). An important aspect of a possible fast acting Windows is shutting down unneeded services and programs running in the background and evidence so that system resources, even though they are not needed at all. Here you can simply by switching off some performance gain without anything missing. The User Account Control, one of the major new Vista features for enhanced safety, is also mentioned. Microsoft is in this context to the circumstances in which it makes sense to turn off UAC. Other topics are defragmenting and cleaning up the PC and the ongoing monitoring of system performance and function.
Positive: Microsoft does not content simply with a few key words, but explains exactly, in which menu item you must change the setting in Vista, such as to achieve the desired result. All steps are also illustrated with screenshots DELL T117C Battery.
All in all, Microsoft reveals no secrets with this guide. His strength is simply that a lot of useful hints and Vista system maintenance tools are presented in summary and explained.
