5 Tips to Make your Windows Vista Run Faster

Windows Vista comes with lots of new features. These new features takes lots of system resources and thus system becomes slower day-by-day. We should avoid some features from which our windows can be faster than before. Below is the some services which are useless, by disabling these services will will be faster than before.

1. Disable indexing:

Windows Vista’s real-time search option needs an index of the contents of your hard drive be created and constantly updated. It reduces the search time and makes it faster. But this index updating process automatically runs on background which takes a good amount of system resource. Naturally it will slow down the overall system performance.

Now you can configure and or disable this indexing feature. Open Vista control panel and click System and Maintenance then open the Indexing Options. Here on the Indexing Options dialog box you can control which drives and folders it will index. By going to the advance option you can also choose specific file types for indexing.

2. Stop Auto Start applications:

Stop and disable unwanted Auto Startup Items. These items unnecessary start automatically whenever Windows starts and reside in memory. To disable startup items go to Windows Defender then open Tools followed by Software Explorer. Now go down to the list and In the Category box, click Startup Programs. Here you can disable unnecessary programs just by un-checking those.

3. Defragment Regularly:

In general fragmentation force your drive to do extra works which can slow down the system. Defragmentation rearranges all fragmented data and hard disk works faster and efficiently. It runs on a schedule and you can also start defragmentation manually.

4. Turn off visual effects:

You can make Vista a bit faster by turning off visual effects. There are around 20 inbuilt visual effects are there in Vista. You can unselect them manually one by one.

To change or disable visual effects open Performance Information and Tools from Start Menu or by go to Control Panel and open System and u Maintenance, then click Performance Information and Tools. Next click Adjust Visual Effects. You may be prompted for admin password to apply the change. Here you can set Adjust for be performance or you can manually disable effects.

5. Disable unwanted Services:

In general when you boot your Vista system, more than 100 services automatically started and works on background. These services consume lots of system resources and memory. But many of these services are not quite essential for general users.

You can stop and disable few such services and which will definitely make your system faster. But, if you are not 100% sure never stop any service as it may crash your system. You can easily stop services like Bluetooth Support Service, Automatic Updates, Automatic LiveUpdate Scheduler etc.

Steps to disable Vista Services:
1. Go to start panel and open Run
2. Type services.msc in the run box
3. If you are prompted by a UAC box then just click Continue.
4. Now Right click on the service you want to disable and choose Stop the then disable it.

When you are done just reboot your system. If you are windows vista user then you might wish to read more tips and tutorials for vista, therefore you can browse Windows Vista Section.