I posted a trick for boosting internet speed using GPEdit for XP. Somebody asked me, what about Vista? I found that gpedit.msc (group policy editor) is not present for Vista home and premium edition. It does exist in Vista Pro (Ultimate, Business and Enterprise editions). I proudly told him that Microsoft did not find it funny to bother Vista Home users to mess with Group Policy Editor, so they just eliminated the tool. But I gave him some tips related to how on this mortal world of windows we can desperately try to increase internet speed for Windows Vista by 'other' means. He was not convinced. Anyways now the good news is. We can populate, generate or create gpedit.msc thing in Windows Vista Home edition by using some Wizardry.
I do not know why you will be needing this. If you have Windows Vista, you will have fast PC too. And your Windows Vista choice indicates your appreciation for cool visual effects. But still developers may want to reduce visual resources to maximize performance potential for Windows Vista. So here it is. Old school! You can choose to disable Windows Aero or Windows Vista Style appearance for windows and use classic look for all windows or applications (classic skin).
I had been thinking about to post something related to Vista Master and Vista Visual Master after using these tools. People complain a lot about Vista performance. In TechMynd's opinion people just did not accept Vista as they accepted Windows XP. If you optimize Windows Vista for best performance, shutdown unnecessary services and tweak a little bit, then it is an amazing operating system which is graphically rich also. Now because the interface changed a lot for Windows Vista. Users remained unable to optimize its different aspects as they used to do it for Windows XP. You should not complain about its heavy file size of installation package because Hard Disks Drives have been expanding a lot. I want to share two softwares with you which can optimize almost every aspect of Windows Vista in a breeze. You do not have to go to registry or tweak any file manually. Developers experienced a lot about users, as they explored and tweaked Windows XP. Now these two softwares will tweak every essential aspect of Vista from disabling unnecessary services to changing logon screens and from optimizing PC for best Windows Vista experience to improving internet speed for Windows Vista.
In my previous post I referred to Boost Your Internet Speed By GPEdit for Windows XP. I was asked about the same for Windows Vista. Well now gpedit.msc (group policy editor) is not present for Vista home and premium edition. It does exist in Vista Pro (Ultimate, Business and Enterprise editions). You have to manually edit the registry in order to change group policy settings. Microsoft has an Excel spreadsheet that lists all the group policy settings there. But that is very hard to go through all the entries. We can search through the list of course. But we will discuss some easier ways to boost internet speed for Windows Vista.
Microsoft DOS is a command line user interface first introduced in 1981 for IBM computers and was last updated in 1994 when MS-DOS 6.22 was released. Although MS-DOS is not commonly used today, the command shell used through Microsoft Windows is. This page contains some most used and wanted windows Dos Commands.
If the hiberfil.sys file on the system partition is removed, the option to hibernate is not available. A common reason for the hiberfil.sys to be deleted is from running the Disk Cleanup Tool, as explained in the Microsoft article "The hybrid sleep feature and the hibernation feature in Windows Vista may become unavailable after you use the Disk Cleanup Tool" (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928897/en-us ).
To create the hibernate file and reenable hibernation, use the following command:
powercfg -h on
In Windows Vista, run the powercfg -h on command at a command prompt to enable the hibernate feature and the hybrid sleep feature.
Increase Disk Space Under Vista Operating System
One of the improvements that Microsoft has improved upon over the other Windows releases are Vista's backup features that are incorporated in to System Restore. The backup features are turned on by default so with all of the automatic backing up Vista does, it won't take long to lose quite a bit of disk space. It may not be a bad idea to go in and delete the old backup files and restore points to increase your available disk space. Vista makes this task a very simple one. here's how:
- Go to Start
- In the Instant Search text box, type: disk cleanup
- Open the disk cleanup tool and select the option titled: Files from all users on this computer
- Select the drive that you would like to cleanup.
- Select the "More Options" tab.
- Click the option titled: Clean Up under System Restore and Shadow Copies
- In the confirmation screen, click "Delete".
Increase Disk Space While Using Windows XP
- Clean system memory
- Clean system temporary internet files, cookies, and history
- Press Window+R or simply Click at Start -> Run
Write cleanmgr in the run and hit enter
A dialogue box will open asking which drive you want to clean up.
Select C drive and press Ok.
Disk Clean Up will be opened. Select tasks and click ok.
This will clean temp files from PC. - There are special hidden folders in your every drive; Recycled and System Volume Information
These folders contain temp files. Remove these files. - Windows folder contains temp folder containing temporary files.
You may inspect all above locations and processes to remove unnecessary old files from your computer and increase disk space.
Also see...
Speed Up Computer - Clear System Memory
Boost Up Windows XP Performance - Get 100% Performance From PC
How To Add Command Prompt To The Start Menu
You already know that Windows Key+R opens the RUN command box, which is now nested inside the All Programs menu. If you really miss it though, you can still add it back to the Start Menu:
- Right Click on the Start Button and click Properties
- In the Start Menu tab, click the Customize... button
- Scroll down to "Run command" and check the box
- Click OK; click OK again to close the window
The RUN command will now show up in your Start Menu as "Command Prompt".
Resize Your Windows Vista Desktop Icons
You can resize your Desktop Icons in Windows Vista very easily.
- Right Click on the Desktop
- Click View
- Select "Large Icons", "Medium Icons", or "Classic Icons"
You can also manually adjust the size of the icons on your desktop. This isn't hard but it does take a bit of coordination:
- Left Click on the Desktop
- Hold down the CTRL key
- (While holding down the CTRL key) Scroll your mouse wheel up or down to adjust the icon size
Add Another Time Zone To Your Clock
One nice addition to Windows Vista is the ability to display the time in other time zones, which is good if you like to travel, or would like to know the time without doing the timezone math in your head.
- Click on the Clock
- Click "Change date and time settings..."
- Click on the Additional Clocks tab
- Check the box next to "Show this clock"
- Click on the "Select time zone:" drop-down menu and click on a time zone
- Click in the "Enter display name:" text box and type in a name for your clock
- Click OK
To see the additional clock and time, simply hover your mouse over the Clock.
Change The Name Of The Windows Vista Registered Owner
To view the registered owner of your Windows Vista operating system, click Start, type "winver", and hit Enter. To change the registered owner information: (make sure you backup the registry before making changes)
- Click the Start Button, type "regedit" (Registry Editor) in the search box, and press Enter
- Click Continue to get past the User Account Control hurdle
- On the left panel, double-click to navigate to the key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion - On the right panel, double-click on RegisteredOwner
- In the Value Data box, type the new name that you want to appear as the registered owner, then click OK
- Double-click RegisteredOrganization, and type inthe new organization in the Value Data box
- Click OK
- Exit the Registry Editor, run winver again to view the change
Winver tells you the current Operating System and other relating information like user, physical memory etc.
