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Technical Help & Discussion => Windows PCs & Software: Help, News & Discussion => Topic started by: Simon on June 10, 2007, 20:28

Title: Speed up Windows Vista
Post by: Simon on June 10, 2007, 20:28

Windows Vista features what some think is the prettiest GUI in the OS industry. It's stylish transparencies and nifty animations?driven by Direct3D and your graphics card?give it a polished look that's a pleasure to use.

Unfortunately, that shiny, new interface, called Aero, is also a resource hog. If you're running Vista on a PC that's near or just above the system requirements, you might want to shut off some or all of those features.

Here are some actions you might want to take to tweak interface niceties:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2110602,00.asp

Title: Re: Speed up Windows Vista
Post by: sam on June 11, 2007, 18:46

but beryl blasts the f*** out of aero... http://www.krioma.net/blog/2007/05/why_have_aero_when_you_can_hav.php

Title: Re: Speed up Windows Vista
Post by: Simon on June 11, 2007, 22:12

Very cool, but I hate to think how much system resources that uses!

Title: Re: Speed up Windows Vista
Post by: sam on June 11, 2007, 22:54

beryl... well it works on my old p4 with just half a gig of ram and a 32mb video card on it.. admittedly not at its best but it runs quite well...