Windows Vista Performance tips

Published November 30th, 2007 in Articles, Software, Windows XP

Windows Vista is packed with cool eye candy, handy new features, and improved security. But there’s a catch! many new Vista users are paying for operating system that decreased performance compared to Windows XP. Performance issues are the most common complaint to users that just installed Vista or bought a new Vista machine, it shows that the concerns are valid.

The best way to make Vista run more like XP is to make Vista more like XP. Turning off the fancy Aero interface, turning off the sidebar, and otherwise disabling the features that make Vista look and feel unique will help speed up performance. But for most of us, that’s not exactly the solution we were looking for. Try to identify the source that’s choking up your resource.The first step in fixing a problem is to find out exactly what’s broken. Vista includes a number of tools that help you pinpoint the cause of performance problems.

Vista, like its business-oriented predecessors (XP Professional, Windows 2000, and NT Workstation), includes a performance monitoring tool that allows you to do detailed monitoring of various counters relating to both software and hardware components.You’ll find the tool under a new name, Reliability And Performance Monitor, on the Administrative Tools menu in Control Panel. The screen above shows the Performance Monitor, monitoring percentage Processor Time and Memory Pages/Second.