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Speed Up Windows Vista 64 Bit

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Windows Vista’s Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business and Enterprise all have a 64-bit (or x64) edition. This was released early 2007. It is best utilized by computer users who have high-performance and advanced needs. The 64-bit edition is ideal for CAD and AutoCAD work, scientific computing, financial analysis, hard-core PC gaming and for multimedia artists. The 64-bit editions require a system with a 64-bit processor and 64-bit system drivers so make sure you are compatible before actually installing.

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10 simple and easy ways to boost your windows XP performance and speed up tasks

1. Disable Indexing Services:
Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don’t search your computer often, or even if you do search often, this system service is completely unnecessary. To disable do the following:

1. Go to Start
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Double-click Add/Remove Programs
5. Click the Add/Remove Window Components
6. Uncheck the Indexing services
7. Click Next

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Windows Vista boots up quickly—but seeing the desktop is hardly a sign that the OS is ready for use. When your familiar wallpaper and icons appear, you better not start clicking, because in the background the OS is still finishing up its startup process. Sometimes it seems like you have time to go watch an opera before Vista finally becomes responsive.

Getting to the desktop quickly, but not being able to use it for another minute or so, is Vista’s big tease. The drive thrashes, icons don’t seem to respond to clicks, and if you manage to get a program to load it goes into the annoying Not Responding mode if you dare try to use it.

Outside of the operating system, during the POST, there are built-in BIOS options to speed up that portion of the bootstrap. Quick boot. Quiet boot. Fast memory checking. But once the operating system takes over, it’s all Vista, and it seems that the more applications you install, the longer the window of time from powering up the PC to being graced with a responsive GUI becomes.

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Over time, the speed of computers with Microsoft Windows can decrease. This appears as the system taking more time to respond to a user’s actions like opening files, folders, surfing the Internet and other tasks. However, there are things you can do to speed up your computer.

The following is a list of ways you can improve your computer’s performance. These steps are intended to be used in order. The key is to do the simplest and least invasive thing first until your system starts responding better.

Golden Rule: Do No Harm

If you want to improve the speed of your computer, that’s great. However, above all, do no harm and beyond the scope of this Windows forum, ask for help from those you know if you get in over your head. Remember: you have time. You can stop most processes I discuss without causing harm. Caution and common sense go a long way when working with computers; problems are often much easier to fix than they appear.

Steps to Speed Up Your Computer’s Performance 1. Make Sure Your Hardware is Sufficient
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If you are lucky enough to be running Windows XP instead of Vista, you still might be wondering if there are any ways to squeeze a little extra performance out of your system. Other than hardware upgrade, there are several software tweaks you can make that will help your computer run more smoothly. Here are just a few.

Speed Tips

C Cleaner. C Cleaner is a little program that will help you clean out extraneous entries that might have cropped up in your registry. Many times when you delete a program, registry keys could be left behind. Tracking them down manually can be tedious, this program scans your system and does it for you. It also does the same for your hard drive, potentially freeing up GBs worth of space.

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A Step-by-step Tutorial to Speed Up XP by Changing CPU Processor Priorities Changing the priority of a specific process on your computer allows you to allocate more memory usage to a specific program or service. This allows the program or service to run faster and more efficiently than normal. This tutorial will show you how to speed up Windows XP by using the Windows Task Manager to change process priorities on your PC.

Step #1 The first thing you need to do is open the Task Manager. To do this, simply hit Ctrl + Alt + Delete on your keyboard. If the Windows Task Manager window doesn’t open, a different one will open displaying several options. Click the Task Manager button to open the utility.

Step #2. Click on the Processes tab in the Task Manager. This will display a complete list of all running processes on your computer. If you are not sure what process to select, simply click the Applications tab (the tab located to the far left). After doing that, right-click on the program or application you want to prioritize and click Go to Process. This would take you directly to the process.

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Over the last several years working in IT for various companies as a Systems Administrator, Network Administrator, and Help Desk professional, I’ve written and learned about many ways to increase the performance of not only my PC, but also of the many PCs on my networks ranging from Windows 98 to Windows Vista.

In this article, I hope to compile a complete list of all the different methods and tricks that I’ve used to get the last bit of juice out of a slow PC. Whether you are using an old PC or the latest and greatest in hardware, you can still use some of these to make your PC run faster.

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SP1 may not give your system much more oomph, but there are other ways to speed Vista up. Spending a few minutes (or a few dollars) optimizing your Vista PC can help it get its groove on.

Get flashy: If you have an extra USB flash drive that you don’t use for much else, Vista can cache disk reads on it, thereby boosting performance beyond what you’d get from your hard disk alone. Simply insert your flash drive into a USB 2.0 slot. If the drive is fast enough, a prompt will appear, asking whether you want to open the folder for the drive or use it to ‘Speed up my system using Windows ReadyBoost’ (see the screen shot at left). Choose the latter option, and follow the remaining prompts. When you’re calculating how much space to set aside for ReadyBoost to use, Microsoft recommends that you let ReadyBoost use one to three times the amount of RAM on your system.

Play your cards right: USB thumb drives aren’t the only way to boost system performance–fortunately, since USB memory sticks protruding from a computer (particularly a laptop) are easy to dislodge, and they can be a pain to remove and stow for traveling. If your PC has a reader for SD (Secure Digital) or CompactFlash cards, you can use those media in place of a USB stick to handle your ReadyBoost needs.

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