Do you want to speed up your Vista? Is it eating up a lot of your System’s memory and are just kicking yourself and thinking “Why did you ever install Vista”. Are you one of those people who are having performance issues with Vista ? Now here are some cool tweaks to help you improve the performance of Microsoft Vista. And you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to do that. Just follow the instructions mentioned below for each category and you would be able to see the difference in no time. Here are some of the features that not many people use in Vista. Yet they eat up a lot of memory. So the easiest solution would be to disable these.

SideBar
The sidebar displays a clock, A Microsoft RSS viewer, and a thumbnail slide show. Removing this can give your PC some more memory to play with.
To remove the Sidebar, right-click on the Sidebar and select Close Sidebar. Uncheck Start Sidebar when Windows starts, and then click OK.

Aero
Aero displays thumbnails of window when you hover the mouse pointer over the taskbar. It also displays the Flip 3D view when you press Windows-Tab. If your PC is running out of memory, you can disable aero features.
Just right-click the Windows desktop and select Personalize, Window Color and Appearance. In the resulting ‘Window Color and Appearance’ dialog box, click Open classic appearance properties for more color options (if you don’t see the option that means Aero is already turned off). Select Windows Vista Basic and click OK.

Internet Printing Client
Now this is one feature you can certainly get rid of as not many people print a file over the internet . Open the ‘Programs and Features’ control panel and click the Turn Windows features on or off link on the left; you’ll get the Windows Features dialog box. Expand the Print Services section and uncheck Internet Printing Client.
Click OK at this point, and then wait for the system to ask to reboot.

Search Indexing
If you don’t use your system to search mp3 and videos or documents very often and don’t mind waiting a few minutes for your search results, this is one feature you can certainly do away with. This will boost your system’s performance. Alternatively you can also use Google desktop for search.
To do this, click on Start, type services, and press Enter. Find and double-click Windows Search. In the ‘Startup type’ drop-down menu, select Disabled, and then click ok.

Offline Files
This feature is not available in Home Edition. This keeps your files synchronized with the server you are connected to. SO if you are using Vista Business and Ultimate and are not connected to any local server, you might as well turn this feature off.
Simply click Start, type services, press Enter. Find and double-click Offline Files. In the ‘Startup type’ drop-down menu, select Disabled, and then click OK.

Windows Error Reporting Service
Now I am sure everyone hates the popup which asks a report to be sent to Microsoft whenever a program crashes. Though hardly would you be instantly benefited from this service. SO might as well turn it off!
To do so, Click Start, type services, and press Enter. Find and double-click Windows Error Reporting Service. In the ‘Startup type’ drop-down menu, select Disabled, and then click OK.

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