Increase Performance in Windows Vista

I don't Think You Have Ever Heard These Tricks To Increase Your Speed Remarkable!!!!

• To optimize the performance of your hard drive
  

1. Go to the Disk Drives section in Device Manager (Control Panel - System - Device Manager) and expand it.

2. Right-click on each hard drive, select Properties, and under the Policies tab make sure "Optimize for Performance" is selected. If its available, also tick the "Enable Write Caching on the disk" and "Enable Advanced Performance"options.

This allows hard drives to use a cache (a small area of memory set aside for the hard drive) to speed up reading and writing to the drive.

• Disable DEP

Some people like to disable Data Execution Protection for a little bit more perfomance, and to do this you simply launch a "Run..." box, type "cmd" (without the quotes) and then type bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOff to disable it. To re-enable it, just type bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOn instead

• Play MS-DOS Games on Vista
  

If you try to run an old DOS game on Vista, you'll probably get an error "This system does not support fullscreen mode." Fortunately, this isn't a dead end. Download a copy of DOSBox, the greatest MS-DOS emulator for any platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and more), and try running your game under DOSBox. Not only will you get support for old-school graphics like CGA and EGA, you can even run it in a window!

• Disable System Restore
  

If you make regular backups of important data then it should be safe to disable System Restore, which can affect performance. Only disable it if you're sure you don't want to use it - it is essentially a feature of Windows which can allow you to roll back to a previous time if it gets corrupted in any way, but it requires memory and disk space.

• Use ReadyBoost
  

ReadyBoost is a feature unique to Windows Vista and allows users to boost performance without upgrading their PC any more than adding a flash USB drive. By storing data that would normally require RAM on flash drives, Vista becomes more responsive with ReadyBoost, particularly on systems with 512MB of RAM or less. If you have a spare USB flash drive that you don’t use, it’s worth enabling this feature. Before you start you must ensure that ReadyBoost is set to Automatic and started in services.msc.

To use ReadyBoost, simply insert your USB flash drive, open “Computer,” right ** on the flash drive and ** “Properties.” ** on the “ReadyBoost” tab and ** on “Use this device.” I recommend leaving the amount of space reserved to the default. After this, just ** “OK” and your system will be taking advantage of ReadyBoost. This is unlikely to make much difference to systems with 1GB or more of RAM. This will require the USB drive to be more or less empty.

Right ** on “Computer” and then ** “Properties”. In the left panel ** “System Protection” which will bring up the System Restore information. If you do not wish to use System Restore, untick all of drives that are shown and then ** “Apply” or “Ok.” This should disable system restore.

• Disable file indexing

The indexing service extracts information from documents and other files on the hard drive and creates a "searchable keyword index." As you can imagine, this process can be quite taxing on any system.

The idea is that the user can search for a word, phrase, or property inside a document, should they have hundreds or thousands of documents and not know the file name of the document they want. Windows XP's built-in search functionality can still perform these kinds of searches without the Indexing service. It just takes longer. The OS has to open each file at the time of the request to help find what the user is looking for.

Most people never need this feature of search. Those who do are typically in a large corporate environment where thousands of documents are located on at least one server. But if you're a typical system builder, most of your clients are small and medium businesses. And if your clients have no need for this search feature, I recommend disabling it.

Here's how: First, double-click the My Computer icon. Next, right-click on the C: Drive, then select Properties. Uncheck "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching." Next, apply changes to "C: subfolders and files," and click OK. If a warning or error message appears (such as "Access is denied"), click the Ignore All button.

• Defrag Your Boot

To defrag your boot open-run and enter "defrag c: -b" a window opens and takes around 20min depending on your system to close

• Faster windows Vista boot!

first restart ur pc and look at the blue line(boot screen) and see how many times it goes..
that u have to do is:

1- start>run> and past ''regedit''
2- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/ SYSTEM / CurrentControlSet / Control / Session Manager / Memory Managment / PrefetchParameters / EnablePrefetcher.
3- dobbel ** on "Enableprefetcher"
4- past 1 in Value Date, and Hexadecimal most be on(enable)
then restart the pc and and look at the blue line and see how many times it goes.