9 steps to speed up windows vista

Even after the release of windows 7 there might be a few that still use vista. This is for them
1) Turn off unwanted animations. To do this click start menu. In the search box type “sysdm.cpl”( without quotes) and click continue when prompted by UAC. Click the advanced tab and under performance click settings. In the visual effects tab uncheck the options that are unnecessary.

2) Set unnecessary services to manual. But you should be careful when disabling them because sometimes disabling an important service can cause problems. Look here for more info. Disable superfetch if you dont have more than 2 gb of Ram

3) Reduce the start up items. For that click start menu and type “cmd”( without quotes). Say the user account dialogue box to continue. Select the startup tab and deselect the programs that you dont want to start with windows.

4) Do disk cleanup and defragmentation periodically.

5) Turn off the sidebar and welcome center. Right click the sidebar and select properties. Uncheck start sidebar when windows starts. While the Welcome Center is mildly interesting the first time you see it, you will quickly tire of it appearing every time you boot your Vista PC. This behavior is easily changed by unchecking the Run a Startup button located at the bottom of the Welcome Center

6) Use readyboost to increase the performance of your system.

7) For some strange reasons you cannot add Internet Explorer to your desktop the easy way throught desktop items. But you can add it by modifying a registry value. Before editing the Windows Registry it is always advisable to make a backup of the Registry file.

Click the Start button
Open the Run dialog box (or type regedit in to the search box on the Start Menu)
Type in regedit and press Enter
Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurre ntVersionExplorerHideDesktopIconsNewStartPanel
Create a new DWORD 32-bit by right clicking in the key area
Copy this as the key name including the brackets:
{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}
Close regedit
Right click on the Desktop and click the Refresh menu entry — Internet Explorer should now appear.

8 ) The default behavior in vista start menu is sleep. But you can change it to shutdown. Open control panel and select system and maintenance and click change power plan under appropriate settings. In the next screen select change advanced power settings.

In the advanced setting’s tab collapse power buttons and lid and then start menu power button change the settings from sleep to shutdown.

9) If you want to restart your computer quickly for some reasons press control + alt + delete. In the new screen you will see a red shutdown button in the bottom right corner. Simply click it by pressing and holding control. Then a screen will appear asking you to confirm. Just click yes.