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"Michael Yardley" wrote in message

 

Perhaps ... but what the site arguably does well is tout software. :)

 

Trying those tweaks initially upon my first exposure to Vista made little,

if any, difference in its performance ... resulting in undoing most of the

"tweaks".

 

Based on that experience I would have to say that the benefits of the

"tweaks" are more than likely system dependent, not necessarily gospel, and

YMMV.

 

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Michael Yardley wrote:

> http://www.pctuneuptips.com/tips/vista_tweaks/?gclid=CPKms6rrj40CFQSVhgod8GzIjg

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I am *not* a guru, but whoever prepared that list of

recommendations knows even less than I do. Some suggestions are

just plain wrong, and a couple may lead to serious problems. The

major recommendation on that page is to spend money with the

advertiser, and if the list is evidence of the advertiser's

skill, that money might be wasted.

 

Mr. Yardley - are you being paid per click or per dollar spent?

Bad Site - Wrong suggestions

 

I thought it was suspicious when under the

2. Turn off Remote Differential Compression

 

section, there is a link and an advertisement for a product. Anyway turning

off UAC and defender isn't the best idea. Chalk this up to a paid

advertisement.

 

"Michael Yardley" <yardleymj@yahoo.ca> wrote in message

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> http://www.pctuneuptips.com/tips/vista_tweaks/?gclid=CPKms6rrj40CFQSVhgod8GzIjg

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In article <F95A0B94-C93F-4A2E-838D-2C6BC16FD1E1@microsoft.com>,

kac@nospam.com says...

> "Michael Yardley" wrote in message

>

> Perhaps ... but what the site arguably does well is tout software. :)

>

> Trying those tweaks initially upon my first exposure to Vista made little,

> if any, difference in its performance ... resulting in undoing most of the

> "tweaks".

>

> Based on that experience I would have to say that the benefits of the

> "tweaks" are more than likely system dependent, not necessarily gospel, and

> YMMV.

>

>

I partially disagree

I don't really use the indexing much (I'm a bit anal about where I put

things, so I know hwere they are on the disk). I turned it off and

there 'seems' to be an increase.

I also turned off system restore and got about 10GM back on my laptop.

I back up once a week so I am not taking too much of a chance (I'm

really asking for it).

Defender and UAC I can't bring myself to shut off though.

P.S. The most noticable system performace increase in Vista remains

turning of 'highlight recently installed items' from the start menue.

"Michael Yardley" <yardleymj@yahoo.ca> wrote in message

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I'll give the article 4 out of 10 for effort. Might get a performance gain

with points 3,4,9,10 - the others not a alot, if any.

 

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