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Tweaking Vista for Performance
If you want to become a power user of Vista, then you should be able to unfold most of its features. Tweak Vistalets you do just that.We show you how
Rakesh Sharma
Monday, February 04, 2008
As compared to XP, a lot offeaturesin Vista require a little more effort
before they can be accessed. For eg, if you want to change the screen
reso-lution, you need an extra mouse click on the 'Personalization' option.
Startdockprovides you with a user friendly tool called 'Tweak Vista' that can be
used by both novices and experts. Using this tool you can configure Vista
security in a few easy-to-understand steps. It provides four dif-ferent options
to configure your system for optimum Internet connectivity, depending on whether
it's a low-end or a high-end machine. Then there's a SMARTGuardutility that
automatically monitors, ana-lyzes and provides reports on the perform-ance of
your system. Unlike other tools, it automatically prompts you about system
enhancements to keep your system run-ning smoothly. Let's take a look at some of
the interesting tweaks that can be done.
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| The 'Services' utility lets you
optimize your system for playing games, running office applications. It even
lets you optimize Vista to be used as a server |
Unlike Task Manager, this
utility gives a very comprehensive view of resources used by applications,
which includes the amount of RAM, CPU and other resources being used
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| Using the in-built Vista
assessment utility, you can compare your system's performance with that of
other systems using Tweak Vista on the network |
You can calculate the amount of
power consumed by each component on your computer in a year. You even get
detailed statistics for each processing core in your system |
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