Continuing on the earlier post “Speed up Vista part 1“, here are a few more tips for you to try out speeding up Vista.

Turn off Windows Search Indexing

Windows Vista search indexing is reviewing files on your system to make their contents available for quick searching. Even though this is a nice feature, it can sometimes make your system come to a complete stand-still.

To disable constant indexing.

1. Click Start then Computer.
2. Right Click the C: Drive / Boot Drive On General Tab.
3. Uncheck Index this drive for faster searching On the subsequent dialogue box.
4. Select Include sub folders and files.
5. Reboot.

Disable User Access Control (UAC)

This new Vista feature attempts to protect your system from malware infection by making you manually confirm a lot of the daily user operations. It doesn’t slow your system down as such, but is more like an annoying “nag screen”. So if you are just a little familliar with computers, you might want to try this out.
To disable User Access Control.

1. Click Start then Control Panel
2. Select User Accounts
3. Select Turn User Account Control on or off
4. Uncheck User Account Control Box
5. Restart as recommended.

Add more Memory (RAM) to your Vista PC. 

With the very low memory prices these days, and the Dollar hitting rock bottom, you can gain a significant boost to your system by upgrading to 4 GB of total memory.

Add a USB Flash drive to take advantage of Windows Ready Boost (Additional Memory Cache)

Ready Boost is Microsoft’s name for using a USB thumb/flash drive to provide some quick access memory the operating system can use as extra RAM. The Ready Boost system can significantly improve system performance.  

1. Insert a USB Flash Drive  
2. Click Start then Computer
3. Right Click the USB Drive in My Computer
4. Select the Ready Boost Tab
5. Choose Use this device
6. Select as much space as you can free up for RAM usage vs. Storage.