Vista - How to speed up Vista

Many people I see are having a problem in regards to either a slow boot up, or that windows is slow to load Programs.
I am using a SATA RAID 0 config, and even with 4GB of ram This can result in heavy fragmentation and a slow system- especially after recording tv on MCE or any other activity that writes large files to disk.

Deframenting speeds up the system dramatically, BUT using the default defragmentation doesn't defrag files bigger than 64MB.

So here are two steps to a faster system:

1. Do a full defrag- all files
Start>All Programs>Acessories>Right Click Command Prompt>"Run as Administrator">at command prompt, copy and paste the following:

defrag c: -w



2. Check disk for errors
Start>Computer>Right Click "C" drive>Click Properties>Tools>Error Checking-Click "Check Now">Under Check Disk Options click "Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors"> Restart Computer

(note-substitute "c" for the drive letter you want to defrag/check for errors)

When computer restarts after check disk you will notice system is much faster, and more responsive.

Some more hints can be found at http://winhlp.com/node/409 .

Hans-Georg
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