Speeding Up Windows Vista

I guess this would help many of you guys, especially those who are using Windows Vista. It doesn't matter if its Vista Starter, Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, Vista Enterprise, Vista Business or Vista Ultimate. The tricks would work on most of them.

For the first part, I would suggest that you turn off unnecessary Windows features.
Open Control Panel and click Uninstall a Program to launch Vista's Uninstall or Change a Program Window. In the Tasks pane on the left, click Turn Windows Features On or Off. See the list of features. For most systems, I would suggest that you turn off TabletPC Optional Components, Windows Fax and Scan and Windows Meeting Space.

If your system has 2GB or less RAM, I would suggest that you pick up a 2GB flash drive, which would cost around RM20 these days, and plug it in. Once you have plugged it in, Vista would ask you want you want to do with the drive. Close the window. Go to Computer, right click on the ReadyBoost tab. Then choose to dedicate the drive for ReadyBoost. Do take note,however, the read and write rate will be very high, and can wear the flash drive out prematurely. Good thing flash drives are dirt cheap these days, eh?

If you are using Vista Home Premium and above, you will get the AeroGlass theme by default. I would suggest that you turn off the transparency to save on system resources. Unless you have a very powerful system, AeroGlass take a toll on your performance. Use back the Windows Classic theme. Looks good as well.