SECTION 0 - PREREQUISITES
Arrow A complete image backup of your vista partition using Acronis True Image and for recovery use the included recovery disc
Arrow Latest Drivers , Microsoft Windows Updates , DirectX package, .NET Framework 3.5 Packages etc
Arrow User running an account with Administrative Privelages
HOW TO CREATE A REG FILE
Arrow Ill be sharing many registry tweaks [ Laughing obvious ] , here , so if you dont know how to create a .REG file , here’s a quick guide
If you have some registry text like this :
Quote:
tips n tricks bg quote header Speedup Vista to the Max !Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\luafv]
“Start”=dword:00000004
Create a New Text Document in Notepad or any other app u prefer and paste the above in it
SECTION 1 - SPEED UP
DISABLE USER ACCOUNT CONTROL
SPEEDUP BOOT
SPEEDUP BOOT ON A MULTICORE PROCESSOR
Do you have a multi - core processor ? If so , you have another reason to smile about . Vista normally uses only 1 core at boot time which makes the boot slightly slower , so here is how to make use of all the cores and speedup boot
Start - Run - Type in msconfig - Boot - Advanced Options - Tick on Number of Processors - Select the maximum number [ that should be the number of processor cores ] - Click Ok - ok
Wait! Dont close MSCONFIG Yet you'll need it for the next tweak
SPEEDUP BOOT BY DISABLING BOOT SCREEN NO GUI BOOT
More tuts: Faster Vista
Arrow A complete image backup of your vista partition using Acronis True Image and for recovery use the included recovery disc
Arrow Latest Drivers , Microsoft Windows Updates , DirectX package, .NET Framework 3.5 Packages etc
Arrow User running an account with Administrative Privelages
HOW TO CREATE A REG FILE
Arrow Ill be sharing many registry tweaks [ Laughing obvious ] , here , so if you dont know how to create a .REG file , here’s a quick guide
If you have some registry text like this :
Quote:
tips n tricks bg quote header Speedup Vista to the Max !Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\luafv]
“Start”=dword:00000004
Create a New Text Document in Notepad or any other app u prefer and paste the above in it
SECTION 1 - SPEED UP
DISABLE USER ACCOUNT CONTROL
- First of all lets start by disabling the most annoying ‘feature’ of Vista , UAC.
Right Click on Command Promt and click on Run As Administrator
and paste this command and hit enter
Quote:
tips n tricks bg quote header Speedup Vista to the Max !C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
Reboot and UAC wont bother you anymore
SPEEDUP BOOT
- UAC DISABLED? SPEEDUP BOOT
If you choose to disable UAC then you might have noticed [ or not ] bit of slowdown in your boot time , this is because the UAC driver is still loaded during startup ,which is unnecessary and can be disable by doing this
Quote:
tips n tricks bg quote header Speedup Vista to the Max !Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\luafv]
“Start”=dword:00000004
SPEEDUP BOOT ON A MULTICORE PROCESSOR
Do you have a multi - core processor ? If so , you have another reason to smile about . Vista normally uses only 1 core at boot time which makes the boot slightly slower , so here is how to make use of all the cores and speedup boot
Start - Run - Type in msconfig - Boot - Advanced Options - Tick on Number of Processors - Select the maximum number [ that should be the number of processor cores ] - Click Ok - ok
Wait! Dont close MSCONFIG Yet you'll need it for the next tweak
SPEEDUP BOOT BY DISABLING BOOT SCREEN NO GUI BOOT
- This will disable the usual vista boot screen and speed up boot by a few seconds , also this enables a better boot screen
Caution ; Your Scheduled boot time defrags and disk checks will be cancelled or they will run with a black screen - you cannot see the progress
Start - Run - Type in msconfig - Boot
Check No GUI Boot
Check on Make All Boot Settings Permanent
Reboot if u want to see the effects immediately
More tuts: Faster Vista