Vista Tweaks

Just found an article on NotebookReview regarding few tweaks one can apply to Vista.

These are the tweaks:

1. Disable TMM
   This tweak helps disabling a search for additional external monitors, and thus saving few seconds and blinking screen.
   
   
2. Use TuneXP 1.5 (TY and Rep Trebuin)
   This little utility works great for XP and Vista as well. It allows to reorginize files on a hard drive to speed up and shorten boot time.
   
   
3. Disable Vista Search Indexing
   As we did this with an XP, disabling indexing doesn't heart searching but saves a lot of system resources!
   
   
4. Get CCleaner, it Works with 32/64Bit
   Cited, "CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space"
   
   
5. Turn Off User Account Control (UAC)
   Make Vista more comfortable by disabling User Access Controls
   
   
6. Turn Off Unused Windows Features
   Improve performance and save disk space
   
   
7. Windows Snipping Tool IS AMAZING!
   One of the best screenshots tools :-)
   
   
8. Eliminate Unneeded Startup Programs
   Remove programs you don't use and lighten and speed up your system doing so.

Enjoy
-A.

Hardware for Windows Vista

The first important step in "moving to Vista" process is the hardware.

I've decided, that in order to use Windows Vista the best way I can, I should get the minimal (or a little more than minimal) configuration capable to run Vista Ultimate.

So, here's my list then:

1. CPU: any dual-core processor will do. I don't intend to get the fastest machine in the world, just one that will be enough for 80% of all computer tasks.
2. Memory: at least 1GB. I should get as fast memory as possible, but more that 2GB will probably not worth the expense: no Windows XP nor Vista will benefit much from it.
3. Motherboard: one which provides wide FSB or memory bus.
4. Hard Drive: doesn't matter. For the sake of my patience, I'll get one with at least 7200RPM and 16Mb cache.
5. Graphics card: the one that will hold Vista Ultimate edition. It means, probably, 256MB onboard memory and/or TurboCache feature.

In the next post I will cover my specific choices. Any comments are welcome.

Moving to Windows Vista

This blog is all about moving to Windows Vista. I'm going to compare different aspects of using Vista compared to Windows XP, and also I will check and test compatibility of different applications with this version of Windows.

So wish me luck and God speed!

-A.