All help is appreciated, Thank You. Jun 27, 97 0 4, A slow hard drive vs a fast hard drive isn't a hugely dramatic difference. It's noticeable but it isn't the difference between snappy vs unresponsive. I'd still focus on figuring out what processes are using the most resources, especially on a system with 4 GB of RAM.
Which processes are using the most? Jan 10, 2 19, The disk usage sounds promising. If those both come up clean, start investigating the services to see which one is hanging up.
Usually I'd suspect Windows Update of being the culprit, older versions routinely cause a runaway process when they can't finish. But that usually persists rather than being intermittent.
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Moderators online. Maybe not. The Window Watcher tells all, reporting every window created by every running program, whether the window is visible or not. Vista and Windows 7 love updated drivers so here is how to update the major ones. This is my generic how to for proper driver updates : This utility makes it easy to see which versions are loaded : DriverView - Free - utility displays the list of all device drivers currently loaded on your system.
For each driver in the list, additional useful information is displayed: load address of the driver, description, version, product name, company that created the driver, and more. Control Panel - Device Manager - Display Adapter - write down the make and complete model of your video adapter - double click - Driver's tab - write down the version info.
Always check in Device Manager - Drivers tab to be sure the version you are installing actually shows up. This is because some drivers rollback before the latest is installed sound drivers particularly do this so install a driver - reboot - check to be sure it is installed and repeat as needed.
Manually look at manufacturer's sites for drivers - and Device Maker's sites. Was this reply helpful? Vista the OS is very big. The most helpful thing that sped up my Vista was a program called Vlite. This is a very simple and helpful program to cut out unwanted components in Vista. For example, the special computer accommodations for blind people. Not many people need these. All you need to do is extract a copy of any version of Vista to a folder.
In Vlite select that folder and it will give you options. You can preintegrate hotfixes, drivers or files so you already have them after installing Vista. You can set setting so you don't have to after installation. Once your done, it will make that folder into an. Or mount it with PowerISO. I will probably post more detailed instructions later but that is another instructable. AKA a Clean version. Those dumb recovery discs that they gave you won't work.
Microsoft has encrypted them. Always remember to test your new Vista as a virtual machine just to check that you didn't screw anything up. Working on a older laptop that's running vista, tried upgrading to windows 8, now laptop will not even boot up, don't have a repair disc for vista and cannot get it to start n safe mode Tried this on my old but was running HP -running vista and now it will not boot.
Reply 6 years ago on Introduction. System tweaking software like Advance system care also increase your system speed accordingly. Thank you so much for this info. Youtube is much faster with the odd hesitation instead of numerous long waits.
Thank you for the effort of sharing this helpful information to us. Ahm, I would just like to highlight that one way of speeding up your Vista PC is to clean Windows registry. Here are the steps for this based on a helpful resource: regcurelicensekeycode.
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