Comments on: Five quick Windows Vista speedup tips

Add an Encrypt/Decrypt option to your right-click menus, access files faster, monitor your startup and shutdown speed, and let Vista analyze your performance for you.

[Angmarr]

Got Vista on a new laptop, and yep def have Vista over XP 99%. I don't mess with the Registry much but, system health report has come in handy for me!

[pithenumber]

the best tip is:
download Win7 and upgrade
and add a Linux flavour like Ubuntu or openSUSE while your at it

[g8crapachino]

...yet another petty and irrelevent piece of advice from a Linux user.

[jscott418]

Absolutely, I use Vista performance tools and they do help. Vista is very good and I would not go back to the really old XP for anything. Deffinately looking at a Windows 7 upgrade though for Christmas.

[offcrgentleman]

Vista sucks. Just because you found some 'tricks' that happen to help YOU, then that somehow makes Vista good?

Vista sucks dirty butthole. Always has, always will.

[c-n-e-t]

Another tired article with age-old "speedup" tips of questionable value.

Adding insult to injury, the third tip is plainly wrong. Since Windows Vista, Microsoft has disabled last access date stamp updating out of the box, meaning that by default, Vista's NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate key will be 1. Get your facts straight.

[Neumenon]

These tips are of neglible value.

[jamesburns00]

Vista minimum requirement is 1GB RAM , but vista works well only IN 3GB RAM

[B-Ri]

Not true. I built a desktop pc back before Vista came out. It has an older AMD 64 processor and started with 512MB RAM. I loaded Vista on it back then and it ran admirable. I later updated the RAM to 2GB and it is still working quite well with that. Also found that before I added the RAM Aero didn't function but after the upgrade it did, so at least in my experience it failed gracefully on the limited hardware. But of course it worked better with additional RAM, just not required.

[3booooooood]

it will so nice if you have these steps put in video !!!

[zmannyc2]

Vista works just fine for me. I don't see any reason to pay for an upgrade to 7.

[vistauser123]

Vista still needs some help though. I like these top 5 he's got listed here. I've got a couple of other recommendations for anyone who wants to take a look:

http://vistaspeedtweaks.110mb.com/