Series on Windows Vista Performance and Tuning

Microsoft released a document a week ago about Windows Vista Performance and Tuning. The document is about educating the user on configuring their Vista to meet the balance between speed and responsiveness. In an excerpt:

Windows Vista and SP1 focus on delivering greater performance and overall system responsiveness. By striking a balance between speed and responsiveness, Windows Vista and SP1 deliver a level of performance that has the greatest positive impact on the system’s usability.This guide looks at the following areas of performance improvement:

• Making configuration changes that help a computer feel more responsive when you use it.
• Using hardware to boost the actual physical speed of a computer.
• Making configuration changes that help a computer to start faster.
• Making the computer more reliable may help increase performance.
• Monitoring performance occasionally so that you can stop problems before they get too big.

Microsoft just keeps on releasing documents, information and stuff that erases the negative stigma that Vista has delivered in its early days. Given that they have dropped XP and are forcing consumers to use Vista, it is just right that they keep on supplying these information spending a few bucks here and there. They did sell 160 million licenses and that is a lot of money for them.

You can download the document here.