BleepingComputer.com: Is there any othert way to get windows vista faster?

I have read alot of posts/webpages about disableing services, turning off windows features, disabeling performance options, etc. I have done almost all of these things but need it even faster. My pc is pretty good but it has high demands on it so even though i have done these things i need it to be less of a resource hog.

My system is a Gateway - FX7020: Windows Vista Home Premium 32 - bit, 4 GB DDR2 Dualchannel, Hard Drive has: 339 GB Free, GeForce 8800GT, AMD Phenom 9600 (Quad-Core.) I think I mentioned everything but I really need to tone down windows some how. I am using the classic theme with no performance features, possibly one windows feature (from the menu accessed in the program and features area.) A solid color desktop, no desktop windows manager , no themes, some other services turned off. I have done a full Virus scan, Spyware scan, and had windows defender do its scan and all turned up clean.

any help would be lovely

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I cant see where his problem is. I do run CCleaner every time I bootup. My new Vista Ultimate 32 bit is Blazing fast, 2 gigs of corsair ram, AMD 4200+ duo-core processor. I have Office 2003 for Small Business. I use this computer as a music server with "Foobar 2000 9.5.0 I am very happy with Vista so far, I hit the button and two seconds to locked page! Wow!

hi,,, what are you actually doing to make it slow,,, i have a quad 6600 with 3gb of matched pairs of ram,,, some unneeded services shut down,, windows defender turned of (as its total crap),,, i have all the vista visual goodies running (or whats the point of having it) and when i run full scans with mbam and sas at the same time, the response still very quick indeed,,,, with your spec and all the goddies turned off, it should be flying,,,, have you scanned for bad fella's,,, try the 2 programs i mentioned in my post,,,
good luck.

figgis41, on Nov 12 2008, 11:03 PM, said:

Hi Figgis,

Which are the two programs you mentioned in your post? I don't seem to be able to find them...

I'm having the same problem as red_xiii 420 -- I'm running a DELL with Vista 32, 4GB memory, Intel Core 2 quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40 ghz with a RAID 1 config (2x 750GB).

I've given up on the goodies, and I'm not even trying to use the bleeping machine for anything complicated (yet) -- and it's unbelievably slow. Quitting MSexplorer takes several seconds.

I've CC'd the registry, turned off the indexing, and the superfetch, but it doesn't make a huge difference.

The disks are noisily spinning nearly all the time. It's driving me nuts! I've removed IOLO Sysmechanic/AV/firewall I had thinking this might be the problem and for now only have Zonealarm protection up. I've done an online PANDA scan and a fresh AD-Aware in safe mode, but other than the usual tracking cookies, all seems OK...

I did have a total system crash (thank you SP3) and had to do a format & clean install of everything. I still have a lot of unzipped files to sort out, and although I have only 233 GB on the disk, I am getting a message telling me they are 44% fragmented, although I don't see why this would affect basic use... The only other thing I've noticed is that the Vista (macrovision) update checker seems to be going online every ten minutes or so.

Any ideas what could be wrong? My old XP machine with 1GB of RAM and 20GB HD was faster...

Thanks for any advice?

TaD