How to make Vista faster?

Question

I get lots of computers that have Vista on them, people complain that its slow, what should I do to make it faster? I remove their Norton crap, then install Avast, Spybot and Threatfire, scan them all, and defrag the computer. Also if they have 1GB of RAM, I recommend to get more. What else can I do to make it faster?

Answer 1

John S,



I understand your pain. I returned 3 Vista computers because Vista was so bad and instead ended up buying a MacBook Pro and then loaded XP with Leopard on the Mac instead. I gave up on Vista after doing a ton of tweaking. But I gave a lot of my information to the Geek Squad at a local Best Buy near me. The Geek Squad used that to make a tuning and performance improvement program and with more improvements they find, provide a service where for some fee, they will use it to improve performance. With the stuff I gave the Geek squad, there is definitely a noticeable improvement, but it really doesn't solve many of the underlying problems with incomplete platforms. I suggested to MS they get off their butts and try doing the same. They recently made an attempt and I have been told this helps. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ab377598-a637-432c-a3c8-1607ab629201&displaylang=en&tm



Since I refuse to try Vista ever again, I have no idea how well it helps.



I still watch the post here and give advice as well as off to help others that refuse to go back or unable to go back to XP.



Please try and give me an idea of the quality of improvement of the computers you get an let me know. A lot of people also turn of Aero as nobody cares about the "Flying Circus" Microsoft is having enough problems just getting it to operate. Appears it can only run 25% of the older applications



Hope it helps :-)

Answer 2

You could try increasing your pagefile 1.5 for every 1GB this very from user to user by opinion depending on what you are using the computer for. I would look around the net for suggestions. Also you can place your pagefile on a separate partion and make the pagefile Min & Max the same, Last of all if you have more than one partion you can create more than one pagefile or have them use ReadyBoost with a USB Device using 4x the amount of ram on the computer. You will have to experiment a little to find out what works best for different applications and create a reference to refer to based on the users needs.



One last thing if you have room for more than one Harddrive use two or more faster smaller harddrives in place of one and use one for the system and one for personal files or use raid 0+1 Raid 0 is no fault protection witch is fast and works by placing pieces of a program on two or more harddrives "four recommended" but you can lose data easily unless you also use raid 1 Mirroring whitch makes a backup copy so you get the best of both worlds, hence you should use "Raid 0+1"



Hope this helps

Answer 3

1) Disable unnecessary start-up programs



Start -> programs -> Accessories -> system tools -> command prompt -> type in "msconfig"



Under the startup tab, there are several programs that aren't needed. Check what they do before you disable them.



2) Uninstall bloatware. Vista comes with a LOT of it.



3) Disable user account control if you haven't done this already.



These are ones I have done. There are lots of guides out there to help you with this. A lot of magazines have good articles on Vista.

Answer 4

Best Way Try This http://wikistop.blogspot.in/2014/01/how-to-make-vista-run-faster.html

Answer 5

go to youtube.com and search in 'make vista faster'

they should give u some tips

on how to make vista faster!