NBR Vista Tips and Tweaks Guide

So nobody has an actual solution for the TMM problem?

 

Yesterday after "2" Windows updates and a change of an ASUS AASP v1.00.64 (I was advised to stop and remove it since it kept running 49% CPU usage after hours of use). So now when I resume from S3/S4 sleep/Hibernate, I have to turn num lock back on and it also starts the Logiteck "F" key features wich always used to be left on.. I leave these on all the time and used to even stay on when resume from S4 Hibernate on a USB keyboard.

Using Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 on ASUS Rampage Extreme x48.

 

I have one neat addition to your "save hdd space" section:

go to the cmd program and type "vsp1cln.exe" without the " "s.
This is a Vista SP1 removal tool used to remove some pre-sp1 backup files. Once this command is run, you cannot revert back to a pre-sp1 system (I don't see why most people will want to downgrade). This will save you (at least it did for me) about 1 gig.

 

I did this a while ago and also got back ~1 GB of space.

 

Does this count for newly integrated installs with SP1 already there from the get go?

 

Possibly not, but if you want to get rid of SP1 "remains" then you can run it anyway.

 

To help speed up updating files and folders, how do I correctly update opposed to copy and replace? In other words like not changing files with same dats stamps and yet updating files with old dates such as moded text docs and pix and so on. I wand to keep set of "Favorites" in sync on a USB stick to take with me on the go and update as I go? Is this a Vista trick or more a geneal windos trick adn if so please direct em to the corrrect trread if there is one.

 

You'll need synchronisation software for that - I believe Western Digital Passport drives come with it, but:
This carries the danger that you delete the "copy" of a file and the synchronisation utility will then delete the "original".

 

Why is the Hibernate tab missing from a fresh install of Vista Ultimate x64? I was able to enable it with cmd switch, but the tab or button option from shut down menue is still missing. Also, how can I get rid of "shut down" option as like in Windows 7 Ultimate x64?

What is the hot fix for fatal error when resuming from s4 Hibernate? I have to do a dual action (wake up on keyboard and then reset when fails once) to resume. I heard it has something to do with USB devices but I removed PSP and iPhone and pod w/ USB keyboard and mouse but it still happens.

And yes, this is in regards to a Vista speed tip since Hibernate and sleep is all about speeding up work and game time.

 

Lappie,

Your questions have nothing to do with ANY of the specific tips in this thread. Please don't hijack a thread, start another, or beeter yet add you message to one of the existing threads about hibernation.

Gary

 

Correct me if I'm wrong. But this is a tread about "Vista tricks and tips"? More specifically, about helping to make Vista faster in performance? Suspend to RAM and hard drive (sleep and hibernate) are specifically about speeding up any system performance.

 

Lappie,

That is correct, however you were not posting a tip or commenting about an existing tip. You were posting about a very specific issue YOU were having with hibernation. As there are several other threads here specifically about hibernation problems, you post would have been better asked in one of those.

Gary

 

Getting like 1GB back doing this

Thanks

 

about to reboot to implement these tweaks... took me a while to find this thread again after so long...

 

Wow, I just did that defrag of the boot files, and it really did speed things up. I didn't really watch it when I rebooted, was reading for class, but uh it was just already doing that Vista startup sound, wasn't expecting that much of a difference. Anyways, had one question. Do we have to routinely do that defrag every once in a while to keep it nice and speedy, or is once enough?

 

hey guys.
ive been having problems with my netwoork connection being slow, taking about 10 or 20 seconds for it to show up, as well as me not being able to change the performance speed of the computer, as soon as it logins if i try to change the speed of the computer to high performance, balanced or recommended i have to wait till the network connection is done.
i did the disabling that this thread recommends, it worked for about 2 restarts but then it went back to normal.
i checked workstation to be disabled and it still is.
anybody has an asnwer to this?
i have service pack 2 (Beta) with my windows vista 32 bit home premium.
thanks a lot guys
sergio

 

You only need to do it if you change your startup in any way. For instance, installing a program that runs at startup or changing services that run on startup.

Have you installed any software since? It could be a program that takes a while to load.

 

The only thing I would add to Crash's list would be if you updated or added any drivers.

Gary

 

Do you have any mapped drives? This is known to cause slow start times.

Gary

 

Ah, thanks. Gonna do this on other people's computers as well. Thanks!

 

no. i did update my nvidia driver from alienware.
i really doubt that was the problem, but i will try rolling back to see what happens.
ive been playing with the computer and everything works and boots amazingly fast, but its just the internet connection that takes a while.

any other ideas?
thanks

 

For tip #3, is this safe? are there no drawbacks?

For tup #4, what does the disclaimer mean? Can i use it if i used wireless sometimes and wired sometimes? I dont get what it means.

Thanks! This guide is great.

 

I found some nice interesting things in this tutorial. Never new about number 1.

 

The disclaimer means that if you just connect you PC only to the internet then you should be fine, but if you connect your PC to other computers on a network then you shouldn't do that tweak.

 

superb stuff rep+1

 

Thanks for the Tweak Guide, Les. I'm trying Vista on my new M1330 for the first time (other than casual exposure on other people's systems). The tweak guide was nice and seems to have sped up a few things. Shutting down UAC and security warnings probably have kept me from throwing it out last night. What a pain.

Boot times are still rather long to a comparable XP notebook sitting side by side.

One question: The shut down delay of 20 seconds. Has anyone had any issues with shortening that to 5 seconds? That delay is intolerably long!

 

I was just wondering if there is anything specific one should turn off/on if using an SSD and Vista x64.

 

UAC is very annoying when you're first setting up your computer and installing programs because it's constantly prompting you, but once everything is up and running, it rarely pops up. I'm not trying to convince you to use it or not use it, but just letting you know that after the initial set-up it's pretty unobtrusive while still providing a layer of security for your computer (registry virtualization, IE "protected mode", etc)

Give Vista a week or so to optimize its Superfetch cache. It should speed up then. Also, make sure any startup programs you don't need are disabled, because that often accounts for the biggest delay in startup times.

I've had mine at 8 for a while without issues.

Nothing different needs to be done for 64-bit. I believe SSDs don't need to be defragmented.

 

On my Sony Vaio Z, this actually made the blank screen delay worse, going from a few seconds to about 12 seconds. I enabled the process again and the delay went back to a few seconds. Perhaps do to the switchable graphics or something else I don't know, but I had just done a semi-clean install.

 

Hey Gary,

Is this safe to run on windows 7? I would imagine so, but I figured you would know, and I don't want to botch anything =]

 

I have not had time to play with Win7 yet. So I don't know. Let me know if you do try it. I can't see how it would possibly hurt anything to try it.

Gary

 

I'll run it when I have some PC downtime, and let everyone know.

Ciao

 

Thanks for the guide. i'm trying them one by one.

 

Ran the boot-defrag. No known problems...I can't say that it exactly benefitted me, but I'll have to be a bit more scientific. I have tweaked things up yet, and yeah, I forgot to get my bootup time before I ran the defragger...but I boot in a paltry 48s, and that without a 3rd party firewall installed.

So much for Win 7 lightning fast boots.

 

Hi,

I have an Acer with 2.0GHz dual core 64bit AMD with 1MB cache, 4GB RAM and windows vista home premium 32bit and ATI HD3650 dedicated GPU. Would i have any benifit in using an external HD for the Ready Boost feature?

Thanks for any advice

 

Also, could anybody please clarify the danger with the tweak copied below, thanks...

10. Turn on Write Caching for Better SATA Disk Performance!!!!

This tweak speeds up the performance of your hard disk by enabling write caching. There is a danger to this, if you have no backup power supply, as a loss of power would result in loss of any information within the cache at the time of the outage. So.... make sure to continually backup your files in data programs such as Word, Excel, and so on...

To enable write caching:

1. Press Vista Orb/Computer/right click on 'C'/Properties;
2. Click on Hardware and double click on your hard drive;
3. Go to Policies and check 'Enable Write caching on the Disk'
4. You can go one step further by checking 'Enable Advanced performance' but pay attention to the underlying warning.

This option isn't available to all. Newer systems are automatically set to run in AHCI mode through the BIOS and utilize a program called the 'Intel Matrix Storage Manager'. Together, these already enably higher performance of your system and prevent you from 'Enhancing Write Caching' on your own. You may be able to check it off but when you exit and return, its unchecked again. Don't panic!!! Thats just the way it presently works.

 

petray,

With write caching turned on, data is not immediately written to the hard drive. It is put into a cache first and written latter. If you loose power in the interim the data is lost and potential disk corruption may result. The speed improvment with this option is very minimal, and in my mind not really worth it.

Gary

 

I just did the defrag bootfiles on Windows 7. In CMD, a lot of different stuff were said than Vista. Showed only for a little so I didn't record it down. The next boot up was considerably slower. Just letting people know.

 

Can you open up a CMD prompt window and type in each of the commands individually and note what the response is? I have reports of other folks running the batch file with no issues.

One final thing. How much slower was it? It should have no effect or faster. I can't see how it would be any slower.

Thanks,
Gary

 

I dual boot Vista and Windows 7, is it possible that had a effect on it? It added a few seconds to each area of the boot, most considerably a long black screen before the Welcome screen, which was not there before. Also, my desktop loaded slowly, screen was all black, then my apps. started to load. I will reboot again right now to see if that went away.

EDIT: Just rebooted again, it was about the same as it was before I ran the defrag.

 

Whew! You had me worried there just a bit. If you leave you laptop powered up and idle for any length of time the event manager will automatically trigger the same processes as my batch file. So your boot files may have already been optimized.

If you do have a chance I would still like to get you to open a CMD prompt window as an admin and individually type in each of the lines from the batch file and capture the text displayed by each one. (You said it looked different than what you saw under Vista, and I would like to analyze what you are seeing.)

Thanks,
Gary

 

Thanks for the guide, it was awsome and helped me alot.

 

Done 90% of the list, excellent. Vista feels much speedier now.

 

to solve the slow network detection at start, one could disable the network detection instead of disabling the lan stuff alltogether. i have no specifics at hand right now (no vista to play with at hands), but i try to not forget this post, and extend it with details.

 

Ok, did all that stuff and the my laptop was running great. Now its gotten to the point where the "Please wait" screen just sits there for ~20 sec. No idea why, and I haven't changed anything system file-wise. Ran the boot optimizer, restarted and the same thing. Toshiba T5800 4gb 320hdd, vista home premium.

 

Is it possible your firewall and/or A/V is the source of the delay? Even if you didn't change any of the settings, an update that came through might have reset the settings or otherwise decided that it no longer "liked" certain things going on with your network connection.

 

Actually, I figured out what happened. Weird as it sounds, when my HP update for my printer ran and downloaded the newest update, thats when it started. So for some reason my system doesn't like that newer version of my printer drivers.

 

Doesn't surprise me in the least; you'd think printers were such inoffensive peripherals, but they can cause the biggest problems on networks.

 

Ha!
Ain't that the truth.
Some folks actually have them installed as Office Nemesis1, Office Nemesis2 etc.
Why?
Arch Enemy is simply too obvious.

 

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