Topic: Speed up Windows Vista

[Simon]

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

[sam]

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

[Simon]

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

[sam]

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...