Windows Vista (Standard OS)

Windows Vista is a rather heavy operating system (OS) with many neat features, but unfortunately they all come at a price. Right out of the box it requires a pretty hefty system to run (arguably). 2GB of RAM is the minimum although some laptops equipped with only 512MB because to lower the price! Therefore, before you run out and buy a new computer just so you can run your base operating system, check out these 5 Simple Ways To Speedup Windows Vista tips to lighten the load. I have 10 Tricks but I will save some until next time, just absorb this 5 Tips first

1. Turn off UAC, or at least make it less annoying

Now, there’s ton to talk about the new user account control policy in Vista, and all I can say is: it annoys the hell out of me and slows down my normal computer usage. Do you realize it flash your video card to a black screen, take 5 seconds and really just make itself a royal pain in the arse? (I know this is all about security = BS)

  1. To turn it off, the easiest way is to go into the Control Panel and type in ‘UAC’ into the search bar. It’ll bring up a search result of ‘Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off’. Just follow the prompts from there.
  2. To keep UAC, let’s just turn off the crazy annoying blacking out screen bit. To do this:

  * Open group policy (start | run | gpedit.msc)
  * then navigate to Computer Configuration | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Local Policies | Security Options
  * Find the policy named ‘User Account Control: Switch to the secure desktop when prompting for elevation’. Set this to disabled.

2. Disable Aero

I personally do not do this just because this is one unique feature that’s distinct from XP, but I realize fancy feature comes with a price. It does tend to eat up both RAM and CPU usage - laptops battery seems to drain faster :(

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ah, last time i tried to use vista that was a real pain man…... thanks a lot for the post, next time i use it again ill disable the uac

sharkhead7854 - 01 June 2008 12:24 PM

ah, last time i tried to use vista that was a real pain man…... thanks a lot for the post, next time i use it again ill disable the uac

Thanks my friend.Keep us updated when you get it installed.

The only way I could possibly live with using Vista on a daily basis is with a quad-core and 4GB RAM.  Sorry to all you Vista enthusiasts out there, but that is the only computer I have been able to run Vista successfully on without banging my head on the keyboard.

My Laptop Came with Vista and now it has Ubuntu…. Here are its short-specs:

Dell Inspiron 1501

2GB DDR2 RAM
AMD Turion 64 x2 processor
120GB hard drive

I just couldn’t live with Vista….

Also, to me, if you are just going on a Vista computer because you have to and it is for a short period of time, I wouldn’t bother disabling Aero or UAC…. It just isn’t worth it. Vista will still be slow and there is no way to get around that.

Well, if you disable UAC, you lose some of the protection from viruses. viruses can’t access your system files unless UAC allows it to, so if you were to get attacked by a virus, you won’t get infected if UAC was on. but if it was off, the virus can attack you and you can’t do anything about it. because you can’t stop it. I won’t recommend turning it off. also, UAC doesn’t come up unless you are to change system settings or install a program, which doesn’t happen every often unless you just got a new software or you have a new pc to install/uninstall software, if this is the case, turn it off, install/uninstall all the programs then turn it back on.

Well i’ve UAC disabled but viruses never could enter in my chine.If you have a good Av or Internet security software then disabling UAC won’t harm you at all.