Owning a Vista laptop, I know how annoying it is when it starts slowing down to the point where my dad’s old Windows 98 is twice as fast. So I decided to write a short tutorial on tips to speed up your Vista PC. First of all, open your Start Menu, find the “Computer” link, and right click on it. Click “Properties”, and then click “Advanced System Settings”. Make sure you’re at the “Advanced” tab, and open “setting” in the performance section. The first tab you’ll be looking at is the Visual Effects tab. There you can either choose a setting to adjust your computer for its best performance, best appearance. (Or let Windows choose what is best for your computer, but that’s basically the same as the Best Appearance setting. To make your computer’s appearance still look good while speeding up your computer, first click “Best Performance” and then click on the check boxes for:
Finally, install one of the Vista Performance updates, here are the links:
Update for Windows Vista (KB938979) – This is a performance update. Install this update to improve the performance of Windows Vista in certain scenarios. Or download for x64 based systems here.
Also get the Reliability update if you haven’t (Not all Window updates are automatically sent to your PC):
Update for Windows Vista (KB938194) – This is a reliability update. Install this update to improve the reliability of Windows Vista in certain scenarios. Or download for x64 based systems here.
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There seems to be another way at speeding up your PC by using
your hard drive’s memory as RAM, but I’m trying it out
on my computer first to make sure nothing goes wrong. I’ll
post that as soon as I can.
You’re welcome Shane. You may also want to look at this post to speed up your PC at start-up.
I tried downloading the performance and the reliability update,
but a window came up that said “This update does not apply to
your system.” Please help? You can reply to because I
probably wont check this website to see if you replied.
I am going to try this. Thanks…