Vista - Performance Tweaking Myths

Vista does not realy need tweeking.

[for the L2 tutorial] Ah ok, thanks. Hadn't seen that one before.

Actually, it will lengthen your boot time for a couple of instances only - within 2-3 reboots the pre-fetch folder is fully populated.

Now, those that automatically clear the pre-fetch on shutdown . reboot are the true idiots - sure, as fieseler said, you get shorter boot times - but then you wait for an interminable period while apps load after you log on. Of course this symptom is most noticeable to those who do *not* automatically log on.

That tweak only provides performance boosts *if* your system is not correctly recognizing it in the first place- if it is then forcing it to use the L2 cache when it is already set to use it is, well, useless.

This is very interesting.

Think I'll cut back on cleaning up my PC as much as I do now.

@Everlong18, cool avatar!












Later Ted

Thanks

Some habits die hard. From DOS to Thru Windows Me, you could really optimize a system. Now with Vista and a bucket load of resources Roy is probibly right.

I do clean my registry, do disk cleanup, virus scans and defrags. Outside of just visual preference, I have not tweaked much this build. Runs great.....

Well, I've been tweaking and tuning since the DOS 2.0 days and I've always managed to squeeze a little more performance out of every system I've ever worked on.
(all 1000+ of them)

Vista is a dog, a real Bow Wow, a MUTT that needs all the tweaking and tuning that a tech can stand to do.
Two to three minutes to just boot up is rediculous for a system advertised to be the very latest and greatest State of the Art OS ever.

Tell a little old lady who just upgraded from a Windows 98/SE machine to a new Vista PC, that she'll have to wait over two minutes, maybe three, for her new PC to boot up and she'll 'make your day'.

I have to do everything I can to keep that little ol' lady from throwing her new Vista PC (and me) right out in the street!

I tweak and tune and shut down 22 to 24 Services and finally get Vista to run like a real computer. It ain't easy, but it's doable.

It's one thing to sit at home futzing with your own PC and another thing all together to be responsible for hundreds of PC's in hundreds of homes.

Cheers Mates!
Shadow

Im agreing with Roy, I only turn off the Secure Desktop used by UAC (screen darkening) and also turn off offline files...I use the STR sandby (S3) shutdown and it boots up really fast...If I was using XP I usually have to tweak services and quite a few settings to make it run properly or use things properly but I have found Vista runs and does better with most settings left on default.

It took about 3 months of testing a fair few Vista installs to realise it actually really does do better just changing a few things but I guess it depends on what habits you have setting the OS up

Thx Guys