Speed up Vista?

Posted on August 14th, 2007 by Jason

As with XP, in Vista you can speed up performance by sacrificing the visual effects. Go to the Control Panel, System and Maintenance, System Properties, Advanced (Tab) and settings. Set the radio button in ‘Adjust for best performance’.

This may produce a marginal improvement on a low spec machine, but it I could not detect a faster response on a machine with a 1.2 Ghz processor and 2GB of RAM. In truth, I was under-whelmed by this Adjust for best performance. A better way to truly speed up your Vista machine is to buy a 1GB USB RAM stick and use Vista’s ReadyBoost feature.

Speed up Vista?

Trap: As you adjust for best performance, you may inadvertently turn off the Aero graphics, particularly if you experiment with the Custom settings.

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  2. Hooly Dooly on 14 Aug 2007 at 3:46 pm #

    You are correct. I found that when I turned off all the pretty stuff on my PC,,, Vista actually went slower.
    2GB of ram works better than 1. But use no more than 3 GB of ram or you will be wasting it on Vista.

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  6. raza on 20 Feb 2009 at 1:34 pm #

    is there some way to use USB Flash Drive as RAM on XP Window???

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