What do you do to your vista install to make it fast?

[mrapoc]

For the love of god i cant get my vista as fast as i did previously.

With the help of you lovely people I need tweaks that wont affect what it can do, rather how fast it does it. I dont want classic interface...but if it helps that much

My main issue is transfer speeds - digustingly slow

Vista home premium SP1 not vlited

 

[Rastalovich]

Is it slow even if u give it 10-15 mins to finish it's caching nonsense ?

 

[pcyyijb]

Do you want to speed up inside vista or speed up the boot?

 

[deathwish]

vista should run fast on your machine

i have no issues on my setup

make sure that you dont have programs starting up that you dont need eg msn

it may be that the hdd is too slow

 

[pcyyijb]

sorry should have read your first post more thoroughly, what are you transfering and from what to what?

Normal Transfer speeds are approx:

USB Drive to C: = 20mbs

ESATA to C: = 60mbs

My Pc transfers from C: to usb at about 5 mbs

I dont know if this correlates to your pc. I did read that disabling a setting in the "windows Features" of the programs section of control panel can increase transfer speeds by up to 33%. The setting is "Remote Differential Compression". I havent tried this so cant guarantee anything, just remember it from my searches.

I have found that using a good after market defragger and a registry defragger have made an impact on my transfer speeds.

Hope that helps

 

[VonBlade]

What do you do to your vista install to make it fast?

Ok I'll bite. I leave it off the system and use XP or 7.

 

[mrapoc]

Is it slow even if u give it 10-15 mins to finish it's caching nonsense ?

Erm i think so, generally not as fast as it used to be even after a fresh install

Do you want to speed up inside vista or speed up the boot?

i dont care about the boot, could be faster..sure (if theres a way of speeding this up then do tell) but primarily i want to sort inside of vista

vista should run fast on your machine

i have no issues on my setup

make sure that you dont have programs starting up that you dont need eg msn

it may be that the hdd is too slow

yeh it should do and im sure iv had it running sweet before, as for startup items i always set it to minimum to startup (display driver, antivirus kinda thing)

yeh it could be the hdd - OS is on a seagate 7200.10 320gb drive defragged with perfectdisk

sorry should have read your first post more thoroughly, what are you transfering and from what to what?

Normal Transfer speeds are approx:

USB Drive to C: = 20mbs

ESATA to C: = 60mbs

My Pc transfers from C: to usb at about 5 mbs

I dont know if this correlates to your pc. I did read that disabling a setting in the "windows Features" of the programs section of control panel can increase transfer speeds by up to 33%. The setting is "Remote Differential Compression". I havent tried this so cant guarantee anything, just remember it from my searches.

I have found that using a good after market defragger and a registry defragger have made an impact on my transfer speeds.

Hope that helps

Hiya, general speeds hardly ever hit that. Going to my usb devices is usually sub 10mb/s (even tho my rally2 usb drive is capable of over 20MB/s) and hdd to secondary hdd (exactly the same as primary) is about 40mb/s

Ok I'll bite. I leave it off the system and use XP or 7.

Well if they offer me a cheap upgrade in my license to windows 7 when its out I shall of course but until then I dont fancy using a beta as my primary OS

thanks all

reps for anyone/anything that helps

 

[zak4994]

Latest drivers for everything.

Emphasise on the everything part.

When I say drivers for everything I mean USB drivers, Optical drive drivers, etc.

Helped me a lot aswell.

 

[deathwish]

Hiya, general speeds hardly ever hit that. Going to my usb devices is usually sub 10mb/s (even tho my rally2 usb drive is capable of over 20MB/s) and hdd to secondary hdd (exactly the same as primary) is about 40mb/s

im getting around 30MB/s to usb to hdd

and 60MB/s From

raid to raid 200MB/s

 

[mrapoc]

as far as latest drivers go i just get the intel "inf" thing and thats usb, chipset etc

might make a folder on usb, get all asus non inf covered things and get them rdy for an install

anythin else?

 

[Darkjeste]

Turn off some services that you do not need using this guide http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/servicecfg.htm

Defrag using something like Diskeeper or Perfect Disk as these seem to do a better and faster job then the normal windows defrag.

Use CCleaner at http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ to clean off all the junk internet cache and everyting else from your machine and also get's rid of blank registry entries and other crap.

Hell after just installing windows and all my apps and then run CCleaner after there is usually about 70+ things it has to clean from registry. Never had a problem with the program taking out something that was needed.

Not much is really gonna help transfer speed other then a clean drive that is defragged and sometimes that compression option can help for network transfers.

Were your transfer speeds fine in Xp recently or have you been using vista for awhile now? Your hard drive could be on it's way out if it's really slow.

Use something like Sisoft Sandra to test your hard drive/memory speed to other similar machines and see if you are anywhere close or actually higher,my machines always come out higher then the machines they provide. If you come off lower or a lot lower then theirs then you could have a problem.

 

[atarist]

up-grade 2 xp-pro bin vista and use the vista dvd as a beer mat.

 

[deathwish]

vista is great get with the times

most of the buggs have been sorted

i dont think this is software related

 

[mrapoc]

It could be my noticeably slow hard drives as iv just discovered

May MAY be getting 2x raptor x's for Raid0

Should last me a while :yumyum:

 

[atarist]

I will admite tho vista doz look cool comperd 2 xp but what can i say i am old school type of guy when it comes 2 useing xp

 

[SwaleSmith]

vista is great get with the times

most of the buggs have been sorted

i dont think this is software related

Yes I agree there is no way I could run XP now, for me personaly atleast.

I find vista is now pretty stable with SP1

 

[qisback]

Whilst Darkjeste is suggesting some performance tweaks I'll throw one in.

Start -> Run -> msconfig -> Boot -> Advanced Options

Tick "Numbers of processors" and select the amount of cores you want you system to use on boot.

This added the shutting services down makes Vista wizz whilst booting same applies to Server 2008 (Which is what I use instead of Vista).

Although get a "Acard" ram drive and it'd also wizz

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[monkey7]

Thanks for the no. of cores tip Should make mine boot a lot faster.

 

[Pyr0]

LOL thats not really a "performance tweak" at all

windows will automatically manage the number of cores

that tip is useless and is actually used to troubleshoot cpu problems.

it will not suddenly improve boot time

 

[qisback]

LOL thats not really a "performance tweak" at all

windows will automatically manage the number of cores

that tip is useless and is actually used to troubleshoot cpu problems.

it will not suddenly improve boot time

Whilst yes that is true, it was always my understanding that this trick forced x amount of cores even if vista wanted to use less rather than the otherway round.

Although if I'm wrong I'm happy to admit it.

-={Q}=-