Another Windows Vista Speed Tweak?
“TheDub” keeps coming up with suggestions for making Vista snappier. Far be it from me to keep his findings a secret.
I thought I would mention another thing. You will not believe me when I tell you that I have gotten Windows Vista performance similar if not the same or faster than Windows XP. Both on battery and off.
What are your thoughts on “Superfetch” technology because along with Desktop Search this was the other performance hitter. Upon disabling this service… Vista is MUCH faster when I shut the lid. Vista is sleeping within a second or two, compared to when Superfetch and Desktop Search were enabled.
Is this another one of those ‘Whoa’ not ‘Wow’ features in Vista? I know its supposed to improve system performance by tracking your usage habits and pre-loading stuff into memory that it thinks you are going to use. Well, aside from Firefox and Thunderbird, I rarely do the same thing every day at the same time – so it was really a “bog down” for me. My physical memory free in the device manager on windows boot is now 600mb out of 2gb… but it also says that 800mb is cached. Before when Superfetch was on,.free physical memory free was 6-10mb and like 1.5gb was cached…
I have no idea whether Superfetch is helping on systems with fast HDs, but laptop HDs are not normally super fast. Disabling Superfetch.. man, it helped a lot… i mean a lot… its as fast (or faster) than XP was on this same laptop now… I’m happy! The only thing that is slow as far as Vista performance for me now is file copying / moving and deleting… I pray to the Microsoft gods nightly hoping that they will fix this issue…
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8 Comments
seiUnPirla
October 27th, 2007
at 11:19am
ma quanto sei idiota chris pirillo? Una persona più imbecille di te che va a disabilitare il superfetch… che pirla!
Jason Frankel
October 27th, 2007
at 4:04pm
Yup – I disabled Superfetch too. Tried for a long time to leave it running but finally after enough procmon sessions I finally dumped. Haven’t looked back since.
After a lot of tuning Vista is running faster for me too but I suspect that with the same amount of effort put into tweaking XP would be running around the same. If you haven’t seen process tamer you may want to take a look. It’s one of my favorites for boosting performance.
Requiem Dsouza
October 27th, 2007
at 5:18pm
Tweak Vista?? What crap…
I installed Vista Ultimate on my Toshiba Satellite A120(which said vista ready) With a gig of Ram and 2Ghz Duo, it took me on an average of 1 minute 15 seconds to boot. Alt-Tab took around 25 seconds!!!!.. yeah 25 seconds…. that`s crazy. Immediately after, i moved to Ubuntu 7.04 (Fiesty Fawn) and i love it. I have the lastest ubuntu 7.10 gutsy on my machine. Havent booted into windows for like 3 months though i have it on my machine …:-)… I use a voip client to get in touch with my family in the US, that`s the only time when i need windows as the client is not available on ubuntu yet. I just fire up VirtualBox (a virtualisation software that i downloaded for free), where i have windows xp installed as an image (windows xp runs just like an application on Ubuntu). I`m impressed with ubuntu.. have been using it for the past 3 months and i love it. Installing software is so easy .. no need to worry about licensing. just select software you want to install on in the add/remove manager and click on install. It downloads all the cool free software and installs it in a jiffy (depending on your internet connection).
So just wanted to mention that i`m no more looking for those stupid “speed up vista” tweaks no more…:-).. happy with ubuntu..:-)))
Requeim.
Ed
October 27th, 2007
at 10:40pm
Yep its much better thanks a lot…
I noticed a substantial speed reduction when I upgraded to vista
from XP and I agree with you on your thoughts about leopard and vista,
Vista feels like XP just with a different visual theme but more power hungry and pricier.
We should already be seeing improvements in speed and efficiency if this has taken 5 or 6 years to “complete” and especially with all that error reporting that’s in the XP, wouldn’t they have at least some user point of view?
Josh Swannack
November 4th, 2007
at 7:30pm
Vista = :(
Rick H
November 27th, 2007
at 8:55pm
i installed vista and have had no problems with it runs faster than xp ever did on my systems.
on my laptop i installed vista basic because i knew it would not run the premium versions. i got burnt with xp when it came out trying to run it on a system that just did not have the power to run it.
it was a 500mhz with 500mb of ram it came with win98 but xp did not like it at all.
my advice is run the right version of vista for the system your trying to run it on.
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August 16th, 2008
at 1:12pm
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Hoopskidoodle
August 31st, 2008
at 3:02pm
My advise would be not to attempt running Vista on a computer that doesn’t have the horse power necessary for it to run smoothly.
My desktop is a fairly middle of the road quad core affair with 8GB of 800Mhz RAM (RAM is cheap. So there is no reason not to max out your motherboard). Even with Superfetch enabled, it boots snappily.
If your system doesn’t, then use a different OS, Damn Small Linux perhaps.