5 Simple Steps to Increase Windows Vista Performance
Vindovs Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Windows performance parameters remain intact since Windows 2000. I understand that developers are reinsured by setting parameters in the registry on average, in order to job stability was guaranteed a certain margin in the performance, but we have something you have nothing to lose, is not it? Here is the 5 tips on setting up Windows Vista, which will add speed and also will get rid of some unnecessary functions.
to begin with increasing the speed of opening the Start menu. Start the registry editor regedit.exe. Branch [HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop]: String type key named MenuShowDelay, The value of 400 changes to 0. Now, the Start menu will be opened without delay in 400 milliseconds.
The following tweak will help set up CPU priority. He gives essential performance boost, but they need to use extreme caution! Open the registry editor regedit.exe. We find a DWORD key named Win32PrioritySeparation in a branch [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ PriorityControl]. Now I will explain: when the key value is 1, the active applications get a little more resources than the background, if the value is increased to 2, the active applications will have even more resources. Increasing the value of this parameter, we will reallocate more resources to active applications. The extreme values of this parameter may be varied from 0 (active and background applications have the same priority) to 26 (hex) / 38 (dec) (all the resources given to the active application). In no case do not use the minimum and maximum settings! It can drive a your computer into a stupor from which it can not even pull the Ctrl + Alt + Del. In numerous tests it was found out that the optimal value is equal to 6 (hex), higher values may lead to unstable and lower do not give appreciable performance gains.
Now is the time to adjust the optimal amount of virtual memory. Of course, the most preferred option would be to expand the physical memory until at least 4 gigabytes, and generally abandon the swap file, but if it is not included in the next plan, you should use the following recommended settings:
- If you have 512 MB of physical RAM pamiti, the Pagefile.sys size should be set to 512 * 4 = 2048 megabytes.
- If you have 1 gigabyte of pamiti, the Pagefile.sys size should set 1024 * 2 = 2048 megabytes.
- If you are lucky enough to own a computer with 2 GB of RAM, the size of the Pagefile.sys must be equal to 2048 + 1024 = 3072 megabytes.
- If you have 4 gigabytes of RAM, try completely disable the paging file.
You do not use mode Hibernation? — you can disable it. The fastest way - from the command line.
- In the Start / All Programs (Start / All Programs) in the search bar write cmd. There is cmd.exe.
- Click on cmd.exe, right-click, and from the context menu, select Run as administrator / Run as Administrator. If there is a User Account Control dialog is clicked Continue / Continue.
- At the command prompt, enter powercfg -H OFF and press Enter.
You can then delete the file in the root of drive C, which has been used by this mode:
- Go to Start / All Programs / Accessories / System Tools / Disk Cleanup.
- Select the partition / drive on which Windows Vista is installed, and click OK.
- Master Disk Cleanup scans the hard drive and displays a list of options.
- Select the Hibernation File Cleaner / Cleaning hibernation file and click OK.
- When the question «Are you sure you want to permanently delete these files?» [Are you sure you want to permanently delete these files?], We click Delete Files / Delete Files.
Deleting this file will free up several gigabytes of space, which can be given to an increase of the same swap file.
If these four settings are not very helpful, but still need the performance, it means that it will squeeze sacrificing beauty - disabling visual effects. To do this, go to Control Panel, find the Advanced system settings, and remove all the visual effects.
The system will then look like Windows 2000, but the performance will be at altitude. Do not forget that for the introduction of all these changes to take effect, it is necessary to reboot.