May 2008
Intermediate to advanced
1408 pages
44h 25m
English
Now that we’ve established a baseline performance level for the hardware and software components that make up a Windows Vista PC and introduced the major diagnostic tools, it’s time to look more closely at techniques and settings that can improve performance. In this section, we cover the following basic performance-enhancing strategies:
Ensuring that you have adequate RAM
Ensuring that you have an adequate virtual-memory configuration
Tuning and troubleshooting Superfetch
Using ReadyBoost
Managing startup programs
Keeping your disks defragmented
Maintaining adequate free space on your disks
Avoiding tweaks of dubious value
Random access memory (RAM) is the vital stuff that keeps ...
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