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This is by far, one of the best all round tweakers I have used for Vista.
MZ Vista Force
Here's a free Vista tweaker, and it's a very good one--you'll be able to tweak Vista in countless way, including for speeding up performance, juicing up Internet speed, cleaning up your hard disk, cleaning out startup programs, and even tweaking Windows Media Player and Explorer. There are numerous settings here, many of them exceedingly fine-grained. Want to change the speed at which the Start menu search displays? Yes, you can do it, and plenty more as well. The program free, and there's a lot to play with, and based on that, it's hard not to want to download it.
1) As soon as you startup the program, you will be prompted to backup the registry, DO IT, just incase. (I personally never backup the registry when using this program but feel free to do so.
2) Begin tweaking (refer to attachments) I use these settings and have gained excellent performance increase, feel free to play around with more, yo ucan find an explanation for every option in the HELP.
3) After going through all the options, click APPLY, then reboot.
4) Run MZ Registry optimizer, then reboot.
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Fair enough U will love meh after applying teh tw34k$ though
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Ok I found it, If you're sure you have 2 MB, then you should choose Centrino Core2 Duo E4300)
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yup like I told you in the previous post
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You're welcome, let me know what you think after you've applied ALL the tweaks and restarted
Don't forget to run the MZ Registry Optimzer after you restart, then restart for it to complete, then judge
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And BTW Dark Silver, MZ Vista Tweaker does not remove any animations or effects
I am running AERO with all the effects. kthxbye
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what the.........*no comment*
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Not every person has the EXACT same system as you so the settings you used may not be suitable for everybody
You're not the only one that's had that problem. It's not uncommon.
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I just use vista, the way it installs from my stick (which is a copy of the original disk
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fast, stable, updating and enhancing due to it. no crippling, nothing. the only thing important is to find out what's the bottleneck of your system, fix that, and it's never slow again..
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oh, and, just saw you disabled UAC.
you lost me there. you can go back to xp right now
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the biggest problem imho is, lots of others try out those tweaks, which magically enhance the os, and still the os then doesn't work 100% as it should. then they come in those very forums crying how bad vista is, how this and that doesn't work how it should, etc.
and no one will notice that they treaked their system and that's the reason for it. they wouldn't say that while posting, of course
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Well, these are usually the kind of magazines that try to sell using promises they can't keep. "10 tricks to make your Computer the best. Ever. Period." and similar.
It's only good to disable UAC if you are absolutely certain (and I mean 100% absolutely certain) about what you are doing, and you know that UAC will not help you - which is an extremely rare case for very specialized uses of Windows.
UAC greatly helps improve the overall security of Windows systems. What it does is it takes applications that you run all rights to mess around with the system, so these applications can only change some not so critical things (your personal data, for example) because otherwise you'd have to click "Yes, I'm sure" every time you want to write a document - also see "This is especially true for web browsers" below. If any application needs to make changes to the system, it will have to prompt you for privilege elevation so that it's able to fully play around with your system.
The most tricky part about this is that applications with security holes in them will also no longer have the right to mess around with the system. So an attacker can not directly compromise your system by exploiting that security hole.
This is especially true for web browsers: UAC also enables Internet Explorer (also works with other web browsers or any other software, but you have to set it up manually) in "Protected Mode", which improves security as web browsers are a huge vector for attacks nowadays (if not even the biggest). Internet Explorer is set to run in protected mode via default. For more information, see: About Internet Explorer Protected Mode on Internet Explorer Team Blog
Now, applications with security holes in them could still be exploited to modify some executable files in your personal directories (like "Documents" or your desktop), because applications can still do that while they're not running with full rights - UAC will just prevent them from compromising your whole system (that is, from writing anywhere to the windows directory for instance). If you then run these executable files (could be setup files, for example), you might end up confirming a UAC prompt because you thought that setup routine was genuine while it had actually been modified by the rogue application with the security hole, so that it now has a virus in it.
For this (and other) reason(s), UAC dialogs will show if the files you are about to execute are "digitally signed". If a file is digitally signed, the UAC dialog will show the vendor of the software. Digital signatures automatically get void whenever the signed file has been modified. Unfortunately, though, still not all software vendors sign their files.
You can also view the digital signatures of files using explorer, by right-clicking a file and selecting "properties"
So UAC is not about limiting the user, it's about limiting the rights of the software you run while you're still in control. Ideally, each software would only get the specific rights it needs. For example, with Java and .NET, software developers can already limit the rights of their applications, but that's not very common yet. And it seems that it won't be until the amount of malicious software (read: Malware, Spyware, Viruses, Trojans and friends) increases to an amount that is even more enormous than what we can think of now.
In XP, it's also possible to make applications run with lower rights by default by using a "standard user" account instead of an administrator account. However, in XP it's hard to do this if you don't know enough about it, because it wasn't designed to be used with lower rights by default. For example, you would have to escalate privileges manually. Also, in XP it's not a very secure implementation: for example, in certain circumstances applications with lower rights can simply tell applications that are running with full rights what they want them to do, and they'll do it.
The reason why these UAC prompts were extremely annoying when Vista was released (leading to much press coverage back then) is that no version of Windows prior to Vista had been designed with security as a top priority. So most XP applications that wouldn't have needed full rights caused a UAC prompt on Vista, because the developers of the software had taken full rights as granted by default, which was the case in every version of Windows prior to Vista.
In most Linux systems, you usually have to type in a specific password every time an application needs full rights. But as in Linux it has always been common to not give any rights to software that doesn't absolutely need it, you won't get these password requests too often and only when they are absolutely needed. So it's not annoying.
And finally: In-depth information about UAC on Microsoft Technet: "Understanding and Configuring User Account Control in Windows Vista"
Hope that helped and wasn't too hard to understand. Security is a pretty complicated topic.
Christoph
Edit: forgot to add Inside Windows Vista User Account Control on Microsoft Technet, which is a bit less heavy than the above Technet link. -
I used Vista Manager from Yamicsoft in trial mode and it didn't make hardly any noticeable difference. For the most part these "tweaking" programs are really just a lot of fluff/smoke and mirrors as it relates to Vista. There are a few things you can do to your system without using "tweaking tools" to have your system running at optimum performance by keeping your system clean (See CCleaner), doing a defrag (see auslogics defrag) and not visiting the pRon sites (See avoiding nasty viruses!
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Amazing Post. have to quote that from now on in all sort of threads about badboy UAC..
I've made a simple example on how to fix xp-days apps that don't work well with UAC in my links below. the only personal app i had to fix that way was an online radio streaming app for our club. still, better than disabling it completely, or making it invisible. -
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remove tune-up utilities from that list. no clue what that is for
(and i don't need defragmenters. disk cleanup is in ccleaner, and antivirus is something i don't use anymore anyways..
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MZ Vista Force (Tweaking Guide)
Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by MaXimus, Jun 1, 2009.
