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Senior Member
Vista trim-the-fat help?
I am stopping over by a friends house to check out is 'SLOW" computer problem(s) (whatever that means)..
I have found out he is running Vista (probably Home version)
I have read that is comes fairly bloated with many un-needed services, features on... etc..etc..
That being said anyone have any tips, tuts, step-by-steps or LINK to articles where it walks you through how to trim the fat off Vista? and make it run better/faster?
Ive only poked around a few Vista machines.. havent really 'trouble shot' one outside of printer problems
thanks
update:
to be more clear.. this is an ALREADY installed OS.. I dont want to trim/rip and slip-stream to a new ISO or anything using apps like vLite or such.. (unless it works on a running machine already of course)
Last edited by whispers; 05-01-2008 at 12:07 PM.
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supervillain
Kill the sidebar, kill the TabletPC portions... and follow this... stick to the "Safe" list.
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Senior Member
Yes.. the BlackViper site...LOL
I forgot all about that place.. thanks for the help "G"
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Total Universe Mod
It's too easy but I can't resist
Power on, boot from XP cd, wipe partition and install.
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oh come on start by killing all un needed graphical #$%@#% thats hardwired into Vista.........me personally?.....GO FOR XP!!!
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Senior Member
Funny thing IIIIISSS.. thats exactly what we decided to do .
I couldnt even begin to tell what happened..
about a month old..
and the 'internet' stopped working.. LOL
I try IE & FF.. and its hit or miss.. seems to start to resolve.. then just chokes out..
after a long wait.. a few random pages will resolve.. LOL
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wow! now thats a revelation , Vista is still buggy as hell? come on does anyone remember when XP was launched? hehe if ur going to insist on Vista give em a few years to crank out a few more service packs....rather than trying to trim off un needed services/graphics or features i would just stick "for the moment" with what i know works and has been proven (over time and a lot of SP's) to do so consistently.
oh im glad u agree btw i was using the opportunity to vent on Microsoft for shoddy work on new products and i cant stand Microsoft fanboys so..........in conclusion , the devil you know and so on
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Hood Rich
sounds like user error to me. i've been running Vista since it came out, 64-bit version to boot, and have never had any problems with the "internet working" or even having any bugs of note that I can think of. Resource hog? Yes. Buggy? I haven't seen any...
"We don't estimate speeches." - CBO Director Doug Elmendorf
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Senior Member
Well on a laptop that also had Vista.. I had a HERLL of a time trying to get a printer to work (Yes Vista ready).. but didnt work for anything.. had to share it out from another machine on my network..
And I dont know what USER error it could be? Dont just accuse without some sort of suggestion...
I dont know how anyone can double click IE or FireFox exe 'wrong'..
Like I said about 1 month old.. only thing that has changed that I know of since it worked fine.. was install of a printer.. and a iTunes
Now whenever I open either.. it like syrup slow.. and sometimes times out.. sometimes resolves to a URL (after MANY minutes)
and for the rest.. who stayed on topic..
VISTA was not my choice.. (read again).. NOT MY CHOICE.. focus people..
Its there.. deal with the question at hand..
Ultimately Id like to go back to XP..
but the question IS.. trimming the fat off Vista.. tips? got any?
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Hood Rich
My suggestion is that whoever used the computer made some change or installed something that caused the problem.
But, no big deal. You're probably right. There probably is a bug in Vista that causes the internet to just break occasionally if you don't double-click IE properly. I was just surprised because I've probably done just that about 10,000 times already with no problems.
"We don't estimate speeches." - CBO Director Doug Elmendorf
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supervillain
whispers... if you're wanting the easy way out of dealing with all of the places you could go in order to trim the fat... hit up YamicSoft's Vista Manager... I think it's at version 1.48 now.
Seriously... some of the commands, such as hitting up vss via the command line to trim down how much/many restore points and how much space it uses. There's a ton of things, but they're more scattered about than even XP. And I complained about it until I got a good workflow on my tweaks there. Now my WinXP installs use less than 14 services at boot. Vista, I got that down to under 28 now - 4 belong to my antivirus and firewall o' choice.
With that said, do not use msconfig to stop things from autorun at boot. Use SysInternals Autoruns instead. Or oddly enough, use CCleaner. It's a tad bit cleaner than the msconfig app.
Kill: qttask.exe (and any other Apple crap), jusched (Java update scheduler), acrobat (anything... acroread, acrotray...), among all kinds of bad auto-starters... like Adobe Gamma (it's not needed normally).
Seriously. To be specific in this forum would be a three-page discussion. I say short-task it by using Vista Manager.
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