Windows Vista Performance and Tuning (Microsoft made)

This guide ( Microsoft link here) was created by Microsoft, so it should be an official tuning guide (most of the tweaks are already known, but explained from what I can tell).
It has 14 pages, so it is quite comprehensive from my point of view. But (and it is a big one) it doesn't tell much to set it apart from the other guides posted here or on other forums. It's basically a simple guide with explanations (you will still have to search for what services to disable on the Internet).

 

Thanks man. I'm going to try this out on my friends laptop. Best Buy sold her a Compaq with a Celeron M 380 processer & 512MB of RAM preloaded with Vista.

It's the slowest computer running Vista I've heard of . Maybe this will help tune it up along with a RAM upgrade.

 

This will probably do nothing for her. The only things that really work is disabling the services + extra RAM.

 

Haha ok. I think she should just sell that laptop and get a dual core personally . Or give up on Vista.

 

Fade To Black, would these tweaks be required for a Laptop running Vista 64bit with 4GB of ram?

I'm a little skeptical about tweaking, I've never broke anything tweaking XP for my desktop but Vista is a lot more complicated looking!

 

Pretty expensive paper weight...
I hate Best Buy. I can't believe they would sell someone that

 

Even under XP these days, 512MB of ram is on the lower side. I'd say upgrade the memory to 2GB if possible, if not its garbage.

 

Thanks for the link, Fade to Black. I downloaded the article and am reading through it now.

 

Thanks

 

Hey, Les has a pretty good (actually covers everything from my point of view) guide to tweak Vista. You should read it if you want to experiment with Vista. You might "feel" something or not...

I do not think this guide will cover more than the one on this forum, but at least Microsoft is trying just a little bit.