Thread: http://www.technospot.net/blogs/how-to-tweak-your-vista-performance-part-2/

In the How to tweak your Vista performance Part -1 of this series we covered the following vista tweaks to increase performance A) Disable some useless start up items first. B) Disable the not required services. C) Disable UAC(user account control) in Windows Vista. D) Disable Network Printer Search.Now lets move on to few more tweaks to increase performance of vista.

E) Disable Welcome Center

As soon as you install Windows Vista you are bombarded by the Welcome Center that is designed to help beginner Windows users easily configure their new computer. This new welcome screen is a nice feature the first time you start using Windows vista but quickly becomes annoying. Disabling the Welcome Center is very easy to do and can speed up your boot as well.How to do it…..

• Go to program menu, click on run. Typer “Regedit” and enter. This will open the registry windows.
• Navigate through HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software >Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion >Run.
• Right click on the WindowsWelcomeCenter key and select Delete.

Thats all , the next time you restart the Welcome Center will be gone.
E) Speed up Start Menu Search

When a users enters text in the search box on the start panel Windows automatically searches the file index as well. The file index includes all of the search able files on your hard drive and can be quite large. One way to speed up searching through your start menu applications is to narrow the scope of the search so that it does not include hard drive files. Prevent Start Menu Searches from searching the File index,How to do it….

• Open Registry Editor (regedit) as above.
• Navigate through HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > Current Version > Explorer > Advanced.
• Find and right click on Start_SearchFiles and select Modify.
• Set the Value to 0.

Restart the Explorer.exe process or just reboot your computer.