How to Optimize Vista

[Nick]

NO USER ERROR DOESN'T EXIST, IT IS ALL M$$$$$$$$$$'$ FAULT DUM FUK VG!!!!!

HURRRRRRRRRRRR.

[Veegie]

[jahrain]

Service Pack 2 had prefetch but not superprefetch (well, it had it, but it was disabled). If that doesn't work you may want to just have windows just prefetch system services, not EVERY program. Its a registry value of 1

So:

Prefetch: 1
SuperPrefetch: 0

Instead of...

Prefetch: 3
SuperPrefetch: 3

like it is now...

Thanks, I just did this. So far I noticed 3ds max has at least stopped lagging like hell when selecting/moving vertecies. Maybe my other applications problems will cease.

NO USER ERROR DOESN'T EXIST, IT IS ALL M$$$$$$$$$$'$ FAULT DUM FUK VG!!!!!

HURRRRRRRRRRRR.

Um, excuse me? WTF are you doing? M$ MAKES PEFRECT FLAWLESS SOFTWARE! EVERY DAMN PROBLEM IS USER ERR0R!!!!!!!

[Phopojijo]

Make sure to also delete the contents of c:\windows\prefetch. It'll run slow at first but it will pick up once Windows refills the prefetch folder with programs your new settings wish.

But yea... Prefetch *really* shouldn't slow down your computer -- since it releases the used RAM instantly. If it *honestly* is making that much of a difference... you might want to check to make sure your RAM isn't honest-to-goodness just *broken*.

That, or it was not using your USBKey to prefetch... which may be a different source of latency if your USBKey is defective.

Um, excuse me? WTF are you doing? M$ MAKES PEFRECT FLAWLESS SOFTWARE! EVERY DAMN PROBLEM IS USER ERR0R!!!!!!!

Microsoft doesn't make perfect software, no, but many (and I mean *many*) people complain about Vista (and other Microsoft software) for things which is mostly their fault.

As an example an old friend of mine kept whining and bitching that his Windows 98SE machine kept crashing, freezing, and bluescreening all the time. He blamed Microsoft. I went to his house? He had less than a megabyte of harddrive space left. That was what caused all his bluescreens -- programs ate swapspace, Windows couldn't allocate it, so it BSOD'd.

Serious.

You should have at least 15% of your harddrive space free to be running at top stability for dos-based Windows (95/98/ME). Sure most of that comes from the requirements by drive defragmenter -- however, you will also begin to see bluescreens get more and more frequent as that space gets filled.

So yes, most of the problems I've fixed... human error. Windows these days is less about being slower and unstable (though yes both are marginally true, since stability is never 100%... even for POSIX-native clients... (fancy way of saying BSD/Linux boxes) and since Windows is bound to get marginally slower with each iteration since Microsoft needs to bloat the frig out of it else people will be bitching when prior programs don't work.)... most of the Microsoft-issues are security... not speed.