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Step 8Final Words
I'm sure there are a thousand criticisms one could make about this guide. Unfortunately every situation and user is different, so there is no one-size-fits-all magic pill in tweaking or repair. I tried to include the best tips and advice based on my personal experience, and I hope it helps others.
Obviously, a new computer seems like the easiest answer. A lot of people don't understand bothering with 5-10 year old equipment. There is enjoyment, however, in taking one person's junk and creating something useful, even desirable. This is what I do everyday. If you have any remarks or just want to say thanks, I would take it as a kindness if you left a comment.
-CharredPC
Disclaimer: This guide may be used only for private individual use and may not be sold, resold, or be utilized for profit in any way without consent from the author. The author accepts no responsibility for possible damage to any software or hardware caused by the methods described. If you cannot access or do not want to download the aforementioned file package (XP_Vista_Conversion.rar), most of the contents are available elsewhere on the web.
Obviously, a new computer seems like the easiest answer. A lot of people don't understand bothering with 5-10 year old equipment. There is enjoyment, however, in taking one person's junk and creating something useful, even desirable. This is what I do everyday. If you have any remarks or just want to say thanks, I would take it as a kindness if you left a comment.
-CharredPC
Disclaimer: This guide may be used only for private individual use and may not be sold, resold, or be utilized for profit in any way without consent from the author. The author accepts no responsibility for possible damage to any software or hardware caused by the methods described. If you cannot access or do not want to download the aforementioned file package (XP_Vista_Conversion.rar), most of the contents are available elsewhere on the web.
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Can't wait to try this on my ancient Dell Latitude CPx and see if it speeds up any, also wanna try to update two towers 5 or more yrs old. Thanks for helpin those of us stuck with windows for the time being, lol.
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/UXTheme-MultiPatcher-Download-2369.html
really pleased with the results - excellent site !!
I think i would say something to this debate abouth what is fastest and blah blah.
I gave my girlfriend a new laptop to her birthday , it's a --- Acer aspire 3680 --- it has a 1.6ghz celeron cpu ( dualcore ) and 1024 mb ram and all the new stuff normaly put in such a new machine.
First i will say that i know all the trick you use for running win xp fast (used those things for several years)But that vista should be slower than xp and all the other disqussion i just read......
Hmmmm ok thrue the first thing i was thinking abought om my way home , walking with her new machine , i put xp on it , i put xp on it .
It sounded again and again in my head xp on it .
At home i put xp on a different partition and it was a pain to get the drivers , but i was lucky.
booting in to win xp home and final -- Benchmark --
Better than her old laptop YEAH... now booting in to
vista home . Shock on Shock Benchmark was 14% higher
than xp ??? what was wrong ?? simply the new hardwhare is used much better in vista ( dualcore not supportet in xp home) ok but the machine act a bit slow ??? in vista compared with xp . ARRRGH DOoh
i could spank myself !!! of course like xp tweak it and it get relly fast. I have removed all the crap not usefull and edit the registry and many of the trick you use can be done in vista to .
I use xp and Solaris and suse linux on my own machines and my girlfriends pc should be as good as i have money/knowleadge to make it.
After i tweaked the laptop she can even play a 3d game at the same time as render 3d movies for production ( we both play guitar and make music)
and download big files while she convert mpg3 files .
Hey its a Celeron not the most fastest cpu on market , but this could not be done in xp .
I forgot at the same time i can acces her machine on
our private network and no slowdown at all .
Like you do with xp i do with vista and it work .
Vista are made to faster machines like win 3.11 was for 386/486 putting vista on a machine designed for xp degrade the performanche and putting ms dos on a machine designed for vista makes it fast but lack all
the tec features ( like dual core )
Anyway it was my experience with an Acer laptop , and
your diy is great and it will help many not familiar with tweaking vista to get a faster system.
Nice work from a hippie.
1. Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup.
2. Copy the shortcut to each program you want to share (from your desktop or start menu) and Paste in that folder.
Now no matter who logs on, those applications will start automatically. The only thing you'll have to do is make sure the Vista theme is selected in each. Enjoy!
I figured out that by simply running the programs at User logon I can have the results I wanted by following THIS article from MS. It helped oodles. :)
Anybody wanting to try this, please make sure you include the full path of the application, all the way down to the .exe (just in case you've never used mmc before) otherwise... it no worky!
Have fun!
The message reads
"UXTheme Multi-Patcher 5.5 has detected that there's (sic) any Windows NT setup file in C:i386. It's not recommended you to continue with this. Please eject your Windows NT CD or move that folder to somewhere else"
Any ideas?