Ten Vista Features You Can Disable for Better Performance - Option Three: Boot out ready boost
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Ready boost is actually designed by to speed up your system by caching your memory to a flash drive. The effect is basically nugatory for the average user, so unless you are having a serious problem with boot times, you can safely turn this bad boy off. To do so, use the following guide:
Click on “start.”
Go for the input field and type in “services,” and then click “enter.”
Double click on “ready boost.”
Find “startup type” and in the associated drop down menu choose “disabled.”
Click on “ok.”
Option Four: Turn off the sidebar
Your sidebar is essentially a collection of widgets, most of which are either duplicates or a little bit useless. Do you really want to have the analog clock or the Microsoft RSS feed at the cost of performance of your system? I didn’t think so. Now that we have established this little fact we can take a look at how to turn off the sidebar:
Right click on the sidebar.
Select the “close sidebar” option.
Uncheck the box next to “start sidebar when Windows starts.”
Click on “ok.”
Option Five: Keep your assistance close to home
If you have the ultimate or the business version of Vista and you don’t use the remote feature, that is the ability to control one system from anther, then this is just a big waste for you. To turn it off just:
Click on “start.”
Click on “computer.”
Click on “properties."
Click on “remote settings.”
Uncheck the box next to “allow remote assistance connections to this computer.”
Next: Option Six: Get rid of the meeting space >>
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