NBR Vista Tips and Tweaks Guide

Na, Vista.

Does Tweak UI work with Vista? Or is there a vista equiv? That sure was a Handy little XP tool.

 

Did you try changing the Aero feature thing to basic or something??

Also, can you try doing this? >> Windows Explorer > Organize > Folder > Search Options > View Tab > "Show pop up description for folder and desktop items" > Remove the check mark > Apply > OK. Can you please see if this helps?

 

Turned Aero off. No effect.

Also already had the "Show pop up description for folder and desktop items" unchecked. Still getting those descriptions.

They are cute, but I really do not need to know all the discriptions. Is this commmon for everyone? Do most people like knowing when an item in their favorites was created, or the URL of the particular tab they are mousing over?

 

Oops, Breaks on. I just realize I am no longer getting mouseover info for the favorites list. So apparently that effect and the one for the tabs and files is not connected.

How did I get here?

In regedit navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Explorer / Advanced

I had already added a new line EnableBalloonTips and set it to 0
But also set ShowInfoTip to 0 as well. That seemed to have disbabled the mouseover balloons for the IE 7 favorites list, but not for Tabs and Files/Folders and buttons in Explorer.

 

4. You can go one step further by checking 'Enable Advanced performance' but pay attention to the underlying warning.

This translates into bad performance. This isn't activated by default for a reason in Vista/Server 08. There was an article written by Microsoft themselves on Technet explaining what this option does and it was anything but performance improvement. From what I can remember it was something related to backwards compatibility and things from the early 2000 software generation.

Les, if you're reading this please consider deleting that option.

As a tip from nForceHQ, you can play with write cache (disable/enable) according to your daily activities.

 

thanks, well done

 

Is Easy Cleaner 2.0 by Toni Arts still safe to use? Or have updates to it and/or Vista made it unuseable? Thanks!

 

I've used easycleaner and followed the instructions by Les here and I've had no problems..

 

This may have already been answered but I was wondering if there is a way to disable the window where you have to click on the user during start up and log in. I'm the only person that uses this so there is no need for it. Thanks in advance.

 

You can try enabling auto logon...

http://www.vistabase.co.uk/kb/security/auto-login-to-windows-vista

http://www.onetipaday.com/2007/05/27/how-to-auto-logon-to-a-user-account-at-startup-with-vista/

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsvista/ht/autologonvista.htm

See if this helps.

 

That did the trick, thanks a million fonduekid.

 

Hello there.Please answer me.I bought my laptop from Europe and the windows is Vista Home Premium.But it gives some errors,so i want to install XP Proffesional.CAN I DO IT??????Is it possible to format and delete Vista????

 

Yes...

Have you seen this???

>>> http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=157838

PS., But what errors are you getting with Vista HP? It might be possible that you might get the same in XP Pro too I am just trying to make sure u know what the error is and if it is not present in XP Pro Good luck.

 

Thank you for your answer.My laptop is Sony Vaio vgn fz38m,so i also wanted to know if i install XP pro is it possible that my comp will work slowly or have another problems??The main problem is that they have installed in it a lot of programs and they all are trials...And there are some programs that vista doesnt accept to be installed...so i am fed up with vista and want to change it into XP Pro.Please answer this post also and thats all )Thanks in advance....

 

Vista is not bad... Have you seen this thread.. its a sticky here...

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=166532

Also take a look here

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=206289

As for removing programs, use Revo uninstaller to remove stuff you dont want or the built in windows uninstall through control panel > programs > uninstall...

Removing programs or trials is not a problem if you dont want them.. try this first before doing a change over

PS., how many hours / days / weeks / months / years of experience you have with Vista? Try it out. Vista is nice.. and I am sure half of your 'fed up' will be reduced once u follow those threads and remove the unwanted stuff.

Good luck. If you are still fed up with Vista remove it completely and do an XP install - Though, I must remind you that you would have to get *all* the XP drivers (search around here, there are threads specifically for that), and all the XP drivers compatible with Sony or whatever... thats not an easy job either (considering how soon you seem to have got fed up with Vista)... and then proceed Cheers.

 

Please take this conversation to the Sony forum, don't hijack a thread about tweaks to Vista to ask a series of questions about XP.

Fonduekid, please don't respond to thread hijacks like this. Ask the poster to put the question in the proper forum or thread and THEN answer the questions.

Gary

 

My Complements to the Chef!

 

Thank you....

 

Quick ques..i was playing around with various cracks for MS, one being a validation for crack programs. The emulator is supposed to flash or mimick the oem bios and therefore get past office validation. Anyhow, i have sense then gotten, through my company...a legit copy of office ultimate, but the emulator is still messsing up my bios and changed a lot of my tweaked reg entries. Would it be best to restore, through speedyvista, my reg...reflash bios, and retweak? Or would the smart thing be to insert Vista disk and repari my comp? Thx

 

I have a small Q - Is it safe to disable OEM02MON.exe from the msconfig startup programs life? I learnt that this is for the Creative Live cam launcher or something.. and reading around in google, I figured whether or not to have this in the startup depends on the user. But I am not sure... Is this the one which controls the webcam? What exactly is the live cam launcher? and if I disable it from startup list, would I not be able to use the webcam? (well I could try it myself, but didn't really feel like restarting n all right now after disabling)... And if I disable it, and when I start webcam, would it still work fine? Thanks in advance for the clarifications. Cheers.

Edit: And also PCMservice.exe >> I learnt this is for something with media center and stuff.. is it safe to disable it? I disabled it yesterday and haven't seen any misbehavior with my system. But just wondering. I disabled it because I don't use media center for quiet some time now. But if I wanna use it later, would it be a problem? is it better to keep it enabled or is it ok to ahve it disabled at startup? Thanks again.

 

Nope not needed. All it does it start the program up, if you dont use the webcam that much, why keep it running in the background. When you need it, click on the program and it will keep the properties as manual startup, and only start at your command. I have it set this way, and its never once given me a problem or effected my startup.

 

Ah ok, thanks Monk (btw, did you see my edit on that post? got any idea for that?)

Btw, when u said click on the program and it will keep the prop' at manual startup, is it automatically done since I have it disabled in startup list?? Btw, I use webcam once in 2 or 3 days kinds... anyway...

 

PCMservice.exe..i have the disabled as well. I only run 4 things at startup. Apoint.exe, NvMediaCenter, and 2 others for my office firewall. Never once had any issues. When i said it stays as manual start-up...i ment it only starts when you click on it. If you go into task manger, services, you can change the settings from manual, to automatic. Almost all of mine are on manual start. I want the bare bones on until i tell the system i want it on.

 

Reinstall everything from scratch. And NEVER EVER mention cracks or such here. It will get you banned!

Gary

 

Sorry boss...never again. Thx

Is there a way to image only my outlook settings and 3rd party sync program and my security suite from work, so when i start from scratch again, i dont need to leave my xps with IT guys?

 

The outlook settings MAYBE see: http://www.slipstick.com/ , the rest no.

Gary

 

Gary, can I have your views on the OEM02MON and PCMservice stuff???? Thanks in advance

 

Ok.. Thanks a lot

 

As those both appear to be Dell specific, nope. Check my signature line below. ...big ol' grin...

Gary

 

ok ok...

 

Should I do this tweaking guide for Vista 64-bit or would I still get a faster computer using XP Pro 64-bit? Or would I need to tweak the XP as well to beat Vista?

 

This question will be debated endlessly if you let it. The thread is a Vista thread and works great on 64bit Vista as that is specifically what I did all my testing and compiled it with.

 

In my experience, it worked great for me and it worked equally well on my friends M1530 with a 64-bit Vista..

 

Hey, I hate to be picky, and I may have mentioned this before, but it should read verbatim instead of verbatum right here:

:twitcy:

 

Fixed...chk it out.

 

Thx Les. U da best. :twitcy:

 

Gary,..reformatted like you said after my bios issue, set everything up, and ran your defrag. Its been on the first line for around 15 min now, and the task mgr doesnt show and of the dfr tasks going on. Any thoughts, is it safe to shut down or leave it for a while longer? Thx

 

Are you CERTAIN none of the tasks are show up on the processes tab? Be sure you have clicked the button on the lower left of the task manager interface to show tasks from ALL users.

DO NOT CLOSE THE COMMAND WINDOW, LET IT RUN UNTIL IT CLOSES ON ITS OWN!!!!!!!!!!! Watch the disk activity light it should show a lot of activity.

Gary

 

command window is open, shows as running in applications, but ni processes and with all users no such commands. only d command running is dwm.exe. I dont know what is going on, never had any issues before with this. also, no disk activity occuring

 

Monk > You might have to check show tasks from all users or something like that... when running as a admin and if u r not logged in as an admin, the task might not show you... you might need to enable task manager to show all tasks from all users...

 

Did make sure i checked all users on compture, but nothing still showed up. I closed out of task mgr and the command window, i figured i have an image of how i like my system set up, so if closing it down did damage i would just reimage it. Working fine after closing all windows, maybe just didnt want to work this time, i'll try and redownload his zip file and let you know if it works.

 

Pretty strange. Put the batch file on your desktop and then you must right click the batch file and select Run as Administrator. Then when you do, you should see the individual lines show up in the Command prompt window as they execute. When you start Task Manager, you must be sure to click on the processes tab and then click the show processes from all users button.

Then let the batch file do it's thing. Do not close the command window. DO watch you disk activity light. It should flash quite a bit.

Gary

 

Well...finally gave up on it. Shut down comp and let it be overnight, just to give it a shot again, ran the defrag again and within seconds both defrag promt showed up under processes box. Weird, but it works now..thx

 

Good that it works now

But Gary, any idea as to what might possibly be happening there?? As in why it wasn't working before or whatever? Thanks in advance.. asking for general knowledge Cheers.

 

My guess is that something was conflicting with it. Did he exit all open applications? Once you run it as admin, don't touch the mouse or anything. Go outside, make some food, do something and let it defrag.

 

No clue. There was one other person who reported the same thing. The second time it worked fine for them too. The only thing I can guess is that MAYBE the first time there were not right clicking on the batch and running it as administrator. Beyond that, color me clueless.

Gary

 

Hmm possibly.... But for me I can say I have been running it the way you had mentioned, and it never crashed or anything.. been working like a charm!!

Anyway.. for all future users / newbies >> right click > run as admin Cheers

how about the system being not exactly idle/?? like if we keep disturbing it??

Edit: Ah ok, Gary just mentioned about it below.. (we posted at the same time I guess) and in any case, this was what McGrady was referring to as well!!!!

 

That's a good point. If there was some other task running then the command to tell Vista it was idle (the first step in the batch file) might never have been acknowledged by the OS.

Gary

 

And as McGrady pointed out, make sure there are no open applications or hidden apps running in the background before you start.

Gary

 

Yeah, i'm stumped as well...followed all directions to a T. I also have to add in that it was after a fresh formatt, maybe it needed to be restarted a few more times before all vista files where in order or even showing up.