How to speed up Vista?

• Check out our tips to increase Vista performance
• Improve Startup Times
• Get rid of what you do not need
• Stop or remove services you do not need

Speed up Startup processes

Make sure Vista loads automatically only applications and services you really use. You can see list of all applications set up to automatic start in the Configuration Utility. You can also check then in Windows Defender.

How to disable automatic start in Windows Defender

Run Windows Defender
Top menu -> tools
Software Explorer -> "Show for All Users"
Choose aplication for which you would like to change settings and click either Remove or Disable

How to disable automatic start in System Configuration Utility

Press windows key & type system & press return
run msconfig

Startup tab -> check or uncheck any items you want/do not want to start automatically

Get rid of what you do not need

Windows Vista makes automatically check and tries to predict what applications you will need. This is of course not 100% correct so it's good to check manually installed system applications and removed those you do not use.

Control Panel -> click Uninstall (Vista's Uninstall application). Alternatively you can go to the Tasks panel on the left, click Turn Windows Features On/Off

Go through list of features - you can check if that futre is active in the system. You need to make sure all Vista features you do not need are unchecked. You can expand some of the features (with plus) to see their sub features.

Stop or remove services you do not need

Start -> type services.msc