Open the hood and tweak Vista and XP
March 11, 2007 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Jobs
Yeah I’m one of those folks who likes to tweak my machine a bit. Nothing really serious, just tips here and there to make the whole computing experience a bit better. Everton Blair seems like the same kind of guy.
One of my goals over the weekend was to get under the bonnet of Vista and do some tweaking and to try and fix some bugs. The most annoying bugs that I have currently are that my TV Card still isn’t working as Hauppauge still haven’t released working drivers and my network card randomly stops working every now and then, and I have to reboot.
Source: Windows Vista Tweaks And Tips | Connected Internet
Me, my big thing is to try to squeeze every once of speed out of my Net connection. Always looking for tweaks to make TCP/IP just a bit faster and efficient. Vista, I’ve noticed, is a heck of a lot better in this respect than XP. In fact it was one of the first things I noticed about Vista.
Anyway via Everton’s blog I found some nice documents for tweaking XP and Vista. I skimmed through the Vista guide for a bit. Picked up a few things. I’m not one to monkey with my registry unless required, but there are some really simple things you can do. Turning off un-needed Windows services is a huge one. I’ve got a “real” laptop, not a tablet, so why should I have all the pen-based and tablet stuff loaded? Yeah, exactly.
One thing I will say, read the docs carefully and if you’re not sure about a tweak, don’t. If you’d like my opinion, for what it’s worth, feel free to ask.
Good reading in any case.
