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bgardner View Member Profile	Mar 30 2008, 03:20 PM Post #1
Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 150 Joined: 29-August 05 From: Boston, Massachusetts Member No.: 32,608	Hey Everyone - I recently purchased a new IBM Thinkpad Running Windows Vista Business Edition. The specs of the computer are very good, in my opinion anyways. I'm new to Vista completely, and have really only used XP Professional up to this point. I know there are a lot of things I can change to increase the speed of windows, both on startup as well as overall performance - can anyone point me in the right direction, perhaps on what they would do if this was a clean install of Vista Business, and What might be installed default, but in fact really dont need? thanks in advance --------------------

Jacee View Member Profile	Mar 30 2008, 03:47 PM Post #2
Bleeping entraÎner Group: HJT Team Coach Posts: 1,711 Joined: 24-September 04 Member No.: 2,990	One of the first things I did, was to go into "Services" and set them according to the information provided by BlackViper: http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/servicecfg.htm -------------------- *MS MVP Windows-Security 2006-2008* *Member of UNITE, the Unified Network of Instructors and Trusted Eliminators* Admin PC Pitstop

nigglesnush85 View Member Profile	Mar 30 2008, 04:00 PM Post #3
Forum Addict Group: HJT Junior Classmen Posts: 4,042 Joined: 7-January 07 From: UK Member No.: 105,123	You could also use http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html the vista optimisation starts on page 112. but the rest is a very good read. -------------------- Regards Alan

usasma View Member Profile	Mar 31 2008, 05:26 AM Post #4
Still visually handicapped, new avatar :0) Group: Moderator Posts: 14,665 Joined: 2-October 05 From: Southeastern CT, USA Member No.: 35,824	I've got a new Lenovo tablet and it runs just fine on 4 gB of RAM - but there's a lot of "junk" associated with the Thinkpad programs that you may want to review (to see if you need it). -------------------- - John If you need a more detailed explanation, please ask for it. I have the Knack.

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