Improve Startup and Performance Problems with Windows Vista

Many people hate Windows Vista....REASON: It takes longer time to start and shut down...Below is the
solution to this problem…no need for extra RAM….512 is enough…
Get to control panel…( start>>control panel)
Change to home view by clicking on “Control Panel Home”

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Under programs, click “Change startup programs”. Windows Defender opens up showing a list of
programs that start automatically when Windows starts.


Click “Show for all users”



Here you will find all the programs that start automatically.
Some applications need to start automatically because it ships with the operating system and is required
in order for the computer to start…

Click on an application and you will see its description on the right….
Click on the program you want to disable and then click “disable”...to disable it

Warning: Under Microsoft, Do not disable Microsoft Userinit Logon Application and Windows
Explorer

Do not disable the driver for mouse (pointing device) and graphics…..if not sure, then go to device manager and under mouse and display adaptors, see the driver and its installation path…

Now get back to windows defender and check the application’s description for the path…..compare and if it doesn’t match and only if you are sure, then only disable it.

You may disable your antivirus and can later manually start it after windows has started.

You may also disable Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment, Windows Defender, Microsoft Media Center Tray Applet, Windows Media Player and all other players you installed later such as real player.

If your computer has Intel graphics media accelerator, click on Intel(R) common user interface and check its description…the ones with file path C:\WINDOWS\system32\igfxtray.exe
and C:\WINDOWS\system32\hkcmd.exe…Disable it.



BEFORE

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AFTER

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Table below shows the results before and after. Results are from Compaq Presario C500 Notebook
Intel Celeron 1.6 GHz
512Mb RAM
Windows Vista Ultimate

(Tested several times to give an accurate result)

TASK BEFORE AFTER DIFFERENCE
Startup Time 79 seconds 60seconds 19 seconds
Memory Usage 356Mb 289Mb 67Mb
Shutdown Time 41 seconds 30 seconds 11 seconds



Note: Do not store large amounts of data on the desktop….about 20Mb of files on the desktop delays the logon by 10 seconds.


Article written exclusively by Ronal

As it can be clearly seen: extensive testing has been carried out and the results have been adequatly presented for your benifit throught the hard work of Ronal - Two thumbs up dude ! !

Enable SATA Native Support in WIndows XP (Compaq Presario C500)

Running Windows in SATA Native Support mode enhances hard disk performance and
battery life.
Windows will fail to start if SATA native support is enabled in the BIOS.

Instructions:

1. Download Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager from HP’s website
http://www.HP.com Search by filename sp32492.

2. Run it and Files are extracted to C:\swsetup\sp32492 by default.
(Warning appears:” software is not support by your chipset”- just ignore it)

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3. Run command prompt and change your directory to C:\swsetup\sp32492.

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How? To be exactly sure : type

c: [enter] then c:\swsetup\sp32492 [enter]

Now run the command listed below to extract files.

setup A-P-C:\swsetup\SP32492\ [enter]

4. Accept the license agreement. The following files are extracted to driver’s folder
at C:\swsetup\sp32492\driver:
iaahci.cat
iaahci.inf
iastor.cat
iastor.inf
iastor.sys
TXTSSETUP.OEM

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5. Go to device manager (start>>control panel>>classic view >>device manager),
under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, you should see:

Intel(R)82801GBM (ICH7-M Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller
Right-Click on Intel(R)82801GBM (ICH7-M Family) Serial ATA Storage
Controller and select Update Driver…

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Say no to connecting to Windows Update,choose to search, click Next
Choose to Install from a list or specific location (Advanced), click Next
Select "Don't search. I will choose the driver to install", click Next
Select Have Disk
Browse to C:\swsetup\SP32492\Driver and select the file iastor.inf. click Open
Select OK

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Now you should see the following list of controllers as in the diagram, Be sure to
choose Intel(R)82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller, click Next

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You'll get warned that installing the device driver is not recommended, click Yes
to continue with the installation.

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Click Finish

Click Yes to restart your computer

6. Click F10 to enter BIOS setup utility and Enable SATA Native Support. Exit saving changes and Log in to XP. A balloon pops up at the system tray
saying”Found new hardware”.

7. Restart the computer.
Now go to device manager and you will see that you have a new controller listed under IDE ATA/APTI controllers:

Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers-27DF

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Artical written exclusively by Ronal

Extensive testing and verification of this procedure was also carried out by Ronal on a presario!

MSCONFIG

Windows XP starting up too slowly?
There are numerous reasons why windows can take ages to start up. One of the main causes is having too many programs that start up with windows automatically. What happens is that once windows boots up, all the programs scheduled to start at logon do so but all at once. This creates a huge strain on your computer system’s resources causing many minutes of frustrating delays!

This tutorial will show how one the system configuration utility named msconfig to prevent programs from starting up automatically with windows.

msconfig is a very power full utility. For the purpose of this tutorial we will just be looking at its ability to remove programs from start ups.

There are alternatives such as using programs to delay start up programs and prevent programs from adding themselves to the start up list but that uses other software.
msconfig is already found in windows XP making it very convenient.


Step 1: Open msconfig : here are two ways to do that

To open msconfig directly, navigate to this location.
C:\WINDOWS\pchealth\helpctr\binaries\


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or
Click start >> run
You will be presented with the following window. Type msconfig and hit ok.


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msconfig should start running



As u can see msconfig has numerous functionalities but we won’t be troubling our selves with that. You will notice that there is a tab named startup. Go over and click that.

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Over here you will get to see all the programs that start up with windows.
Now you can choose which programs may or may not start up with windows.

Its best to have an intuitive approach to your choices, keep the ones you need and uncheck the ones you don’t. Click ok.



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The following dialog box pops up. Click restart.



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Once windows restarts you would have noticed a significant improvement in system start up time. Now u can enjoy a faster and efficient start up of windows.

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