12 Windows Vista Tweaks To Boost Your PC's Performance

January 22, 2008 from InformationWeek – “Soon after Windows Vista came out, many suggestions for tweaking the operating system to improve performance emerged. Unfortunately, most of those tweaks turned out to be pretty disappointing: they either provided the illusion of better performance but did nothing of substance, or they were rehashes of existing Windows XP tips that might note even be valid on Vista.

Still, there are plenty of things that can be done to make Vista run better. Over the past several months I've kept an eye peeled as to what actually works, what doesn't, and why. With less work than you might think, it's entirely possible to have Vista running quite snappily. …”

180 View – Some of the advice in this article would have saved me (Michael Burns) a lot of time when I first installed Vista. Specifically, the advice included getting rid of preloaded programs.