Vista - Comp. slower than it used to be...

Yeah all your ratings are fine except the two relating to graphics. You can speed up your pc but getting a decent speed for running new games is going to be hard with that graphics chip. I know its possible to replace the graphics in laptops but your better waiting on answer from someone with a laptop to see if you can replace yours and if so, how you can do it.

Only 10 steps to go lol. It'll take a while but its worth it

I tried Silverfall again and it ran smoothly. I had no serious lag problems what-so-ever... until I went out and fought a few zombies. It started to lag in a fluent and ignorable way. Looks like this stuff is REALLY working. YES!

Uhm... I'm not entirely sure if this is a problem, but Defrag All and Defrag Boot Files didn't work on Part Four. -_-
Should I skip them and move on?

Those shortcuts should run on vista. When you double left click on them they should launch a cmd window. You then just wait for the window to disapear by itself.

But if they are not working then right click on the desktop and select new then shortcut. In the location box type C:\Windows\System32\Defrag.exe -b %SystemDrive% then click Next and then click finish. Then right click on the icon you created and click on Run as Administrator

The step above creates the defrag boot files shortcut and for the defrag all files shortcut you just do the same again but in the location box type C:\Windows\System32\Defrag.exe -w -v %SystemDrive%

Well, the "Defrag Boot Files.lnk" shortcut won't work. My only question is whether or not the black window itself is suppose to be selected throughout the entire process or not (the selected window is usually Notepad++ while I'm reading video game guides). The reason why I ask this is because I worry how long it is suppose to run. Do I really HAVE to do that one anyway?

OH! I can now play Left 4 Dead for about six minutes before it slows down (impossible to kill a witch) and then I'd have to restart my computer if I wanted to play it smoothly again (restarting the game didn't work). This slow down was for every game I had; but fortunately Unreal Tournament doesn't require a lot a RAM. YES!

By the bi, I still can't play Dark Messiah (period) on the lowest setting and resolution (I used to play it on medium).

If you cant get the shortcuts to work then just skip them. The guide i gave you is best done by doing one step straight after the other and not using your pc for anything else while you are doing each step.

It takes time to do all the steps one after the other but its worth it. If i was you id run a full virus scan on the pc then go to my guide and start at step 5.

I need an immediate answer for this problem. It's been about an hour and the 5th paragraph of STEP 7 is being done. The "TuneUp 1-Click Maintenance" program thingy has already corrected every problem but the last one (Degree of Fragmentation). It is currently "Defragmenting 'Local Disk (C'...(2.2%)." Should I just "Skip task" (stop that correction) or what?

If you think its not doing anything then click on cancel then run tune up 1 click again. It may just be that your hard drive is huge and has a lot of fragmented files but to be on the safe side click cancel then run it again.

Its best if you run no programmes at the same time, so close all open apps the run 1 click and go have some dinner or something

Uhm... it's now on 7.7% and all I've been doing was seeing what things I can change in TuneUp Styler (Would there be any problem if were to change anything in there?).
How necessary is this process anyway? GOSH I feel so naggy! >.<
My hard drive is 219 GB with 29.2 GB free.

How often do you normally defrag your hard drive?

I use TuneUpStyler to change my logon screen to the same image as my wallpaper but thats all i use it for. Id advise fixing the problems on your pc first before you change anything with TuneUpStyler.