As usual, every generation of new
Windows Operating System will consume far more resources
than before, but this also means more features and greater
user experience! It applies to Vista as well. In this
article I will show you 5 very effective steps to speed up
Vista, I can almost feel your Vista taking off! (Just
kidding)
Without further delay, let's talk about the first step:
**Add more RAM - More memory means more resources to hold
programs and services without accessing your hard disk. 4 GB
is recommended, but you are limited to 3.2 GB to 3.6 GB RAM
that actually available from a 4 GB memory machine. This is
the limitation of 32 bits Vista ( x86), if you want more RAM
support, you will have to upgrade to 64 bits ( x64).
Let's say you have a limited budget, and you want more
speed, then the second step can help you:
**Use USB memory stick to run ReadyBoost - You can buy a 4GB
USB memory stick with reasonably cheap price, and you can
use it to accelerate your PC and transfer data between
computer as well, many has reported ReadyBoost to be very
effective on 512 MB and 1GB RAM computer, it can speed up
Vista overall performance 20~50% faster.
Now comes the step 3, you really going to love Vista for
this:
**Hybrid sleep mode - Sleep mode introduced itself since
Windows 98, and now Vista extend this great feature and
combine with XP hibernation mode to become hybrid sleep
mode. It will allow user to shut down the computer instantly
(Not really shutdown, but rather into sleep mode) and boot
up instantly (5~7 seconds!). You do not have to worry about
data loss due to power failure, because it saves your
computer status in hibernation mode automatically before
going into sleep mode, thus safe guard your data even you
unplug the power!
The Vista default power plan on all new installations is
conservative. You want that to your notebook to save power,
but not your desktop computer! so step 4:
**Change your power plan to maximum performance -You want
your processor to be ready in the fastest mode, by changing
the plan to maximum performance, you can speed up Vista
overall performance by another 10% to 15%!
Now the final step, and you need some technical knowledge to
perform this:
Disable unused services - Many services in Vista is unused
by most other users, by reducing the services run in
background, you can dramatically increase Vista performance.
However, you really need technical knowledge to perform this
step, I urge you to find some guide and do some study before
even trying it on your own computer!
This concludes the 5 effective steps to increase Vista
performance, but the most effective way is still adding more
RAM! Unless you really short of money, go get more RAM
(C) Copyright 2008 Kok Choon
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