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Speed Up Windows Vista

So, you had not option but to upgrade to Vista, Xp is not been sold any more.

I don’t want to be the one to tell you that Windows Vista is the less productive operating system for developers. Don’t get me wrong, I love Vista and I love it having it at home for the wife’s laptop of the kids computer to get to Play House Disney to play with those awesome flash games. Now when using it for developing software, you find yourself less productive, as you are waiting most of the time for the operating system to stop spinning the blue wheel or the hard disk. Visual Studio 2005/2008 and Vista means hours of endless waiting.

What can you do? Complain as I do all the time or start finding the way to speed up the system. There are little things that you can do, as purchasing a USB ReadyBoot with at least twice the size as you computer RAM, more than 1 year ago, I wrote a post about it. It may help a little. Disabling a few startup applications will save you RAM. However the whole experience of Vista is all about the look and feel. I personally prefer to drastically improve the speed by disabling the look and feel of Vista. Go to “performance options” and select “Best Performance”.

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From now on, your Vista computer will look just like Windows 2003. I really hope that you like that bare bones look, as the computer will run a much faster opening and closing applications as well as using the windows explorer.

If you find better ways to speed up your Windows Vista and keeping your Aero look, please let me know, as I miss it terribly but I feel that I do not have to wait anymore for the computer to finish spinning.

Cheers

Al

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Posted: Aug 17 2008, 09:59 PM by albert | with 3 comment(s)
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injvstice said:

Running vista by itself with Visual Studio 2008 eats up 3.6 GBs of RAM for me. I found this out only after I updated to 6 GB of RAM on my machine (Vista x64). So if you run Visual Studio, you should at least have 4GB of RAM. I believe you will get a lot more performance out of that (plus turning off all services you don't need
# August 18, 2008 4:03 AM

CodyG [WINDOWS-TEAM] said:

Albert- Hi, my name's Cody, and I'm working with the Windows Vista Outreach Team to help answer questions users might have about their copies of Vista. I see you’re looking for ways to boost Vista’s performance speed, and I wanted to point you towards some documentation that Microsoft themselves have written on the subject. Here’s a link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ab377598-a637-432c-a3c8-1607ab629201&displaylang=en As you can see, it’s a pretty good-sized list, but it contains some really useful stuff for Vista users, and is a great resource to have around and share with others. Let me know if any of their recommendations were helpful for you, or if you run into any tips and techniques yourself! Thanks, Cody Windows Vista Outreach Team
# August 20, 2008 2:52 PM

albert said:

Thanks Cody, I'll check it out

# August 25, 2008 4:22 PM