Speeding Up Windows Vista

Adjust "Visual Effects" for the "Adjust for best performance" option.

See

http://www.lytebyte.com/2008/04/24/how-to-adjust-vista-for-best-performance-by-changing-visual-effects/

and "Adjust visual effects settings" at

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/2415-10877_11-91600.html

If you have 1 gigabytes or more of RAM, adjust "Virtual Memory" for a "Custom size" with an "Initial size" and a "Maximum size" both to about 2.5 times the size of your total RAM plus or minus 500 Megabytes. Most 32-bit Windows Vista computers will limit your "Initial size" and "Maximum size" to 4096 kilobytes. If you do not have time to experiment with different ..size settings, just set both the "Initial size" and "Maximum size" to 4096 kilobytes for now.

See

for some screen shots and additional advice.

If you have less than 1 gigabytes of RAM, adjust "Virtual Memory" for a "custom size" with an "Initial size" and a "Maximum size" both to about 4096 kilobytes (~4 Megabytes) minus the size of your total RAM (plus or minus 500 Megabytes).

For more details on fine-tuning your swap file to meet your specific needs, Ken Blake recommends that you follow the advice that was written by the late Alex Nichol. Nichol's excellent advice is located at

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

Click on <Start>, Click on <Run>, Type in

services.msc

Click on <Okay>.

Then follow the instructions at

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=720

and

http://smallvoid.com/articles/windows-vista/services/

and

http://www.speedyvista.com/services.php

Reduce menushowdelay value:

See

http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php?topic=63455.0

or

http://www.adamsdvds.co.uk/tutorials/vista/regedit/speed_up_start_menu.php

Perform additional tweaks described at

http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/supertweaks.htm

and

http://tweakhound.com/vista/tweakguide/index.htm