6 Free Vista Utilities to Tweak and Improve Performance
There are literally hundreds of freeware applications and utilities that you can download for Windows XP to tweak and improve computer performance, however, it’s still hard to find really good ones for Windows Vista. If you’re looking for some good free programs to configure, customize and tweak Windows Vista, check out the list below. The programs range from system configuration tweakers to Windows Vista boot screen modifiers. Enjoy!
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MZ Vista Force is a full-fledged tweaking machine! It’s broken down into Performance Tweaks, Windows Tweaks, Internet Optimizer, StartUp Manager, Services Manger, and Backup Restore. Use it to easily clean up junk files off your hard disk or speed up Internet browsing in Vista. You can also modify lots of esoteric settings like the speed at which the Start Menu displays and clearing out the page file at shutdown. Lots of options and a definite download! |
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A Vista Tweaker from Stardock that packs a bunch of features into a small package. Disable unnecessary startup programs, update drivers that are out of date, get a benchmark of your computer performance, and lots more. The full version has some extra stuff for $20. |
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Vista Logo Boot Generator is a free Windows Vista program that you can use to change the default boot screen in Windows to your own custom image. You can use an image of two sizes, either 800×600 or 1024×768, so you’ll have to scale any images you might want to use to that size first and they must be in .bmp format. So if you have a nice picture of your spouse or something else you wouldn’t mind seeing at startup, use this to customize the boot screen! |
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Vista Boot Pro is a cool freeware app that you can use to easily mange the boot configuration and settings in Windows Vista without having to manually edit the BCDEdit file. You can also use Vista Boot Pro to back up the existing boot configuration before making changes in case something goes wrong. Also useful for multi-boot systems where you want to set the default OS, etc. |
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What’s the most annoying thing about Windows Vista? Could your answer be UAC or User Account Control? Mine too! I hate it! It’s a pain! But it’s also bad to turn it completely off. So what to do? Use TweakUAC, a nifty little tool you can use to Turn off UAC, Turn on UAC, or put it into Quiet mode. Quiet mode means Administrators are not bothered with prompts when doing admin tasks, but it’s still remains on for programs, etc. Finally! |
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Any other annoying Vista feature? How about those giant arrows on your desktop shortcuts? Do they really need to be THAT big? I mean come on! We know they are shortcuts. If you hate those little shortcut icons, you can get rid of them by using Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover! A free app that either lets your remove the shortcuts or make them smaller like they used to be in Windows XP. Ahhh that’s better! |
Any other Windows Vista utilities that you just can’t live without? There are a couple of more that I like to use, but I’ll leave that for another post! Hope you enjoyed these!
(By) Aseem Kishore
Thats a awesome review Aseem… Keep it up
I can’t stand microsoft products anymore.. In my opinion Microsoft Office is the only thing that they did well..
I got impressed by the new mac os x Leopard…And thats why I moved to apple’s OS..
You should do what this mac ad says: give up on vista!
weshow.com/us/p/24256/apples_ad_dont_give_up_on_vista
Apple FTW!
Well it depends on your needs. Again as one of the ads says: “Mac is better for fun stuff” – movies, pictures, etc. On the other hand, if you’re a gamer you’re much better off with Vista than you’re with Leopard.
Even Vista is not much better than Xp but I like Vista and Xp Wallpapers
Tulip
http://www.xpwallpaper.org
On the tweak UAC, you can just go into the control panel, under the users, you can turn it off there.
Thanks for the tip
It Does all mater what is you’r needs… If you are going to buy A 600 64 bit system for typing you are wasting your money… But if you need a 3,000 home built 8 core system liquid cooling for cad design great… Or A free nass system with 9 Tera Bytes for media editing in high HD video format and iso backups great…. Or even A gaming system with 2 2 gig hd video cards and 36 gigs of ram and 6 3 tera bytes of storage or just a cheat 100 $ office system running at 3.0 that was refurbished
thanks for sharing
i aslo use dsl speed which is an online tool which helps to optimize ur pc performance