The operating system Windows Vista offers a beautiful design, a number of convenient features and enhanced information security. But would I pay for everything - and many users are paying for the new features Vista lowering speed of the system compared to Windows XP. Our readers establishing a new operating system from Microsoft, or buy a new computer with a pre-Vista, most often complain about slowing the speed at work, and I am convinced from experience that their legitimate concerns.

To understand the reason
To solve any problem, it is necessary, above all, to understand what its cause. Vista offers a number of tools that will help to understand why the system works so slowly.

Manager productivity
The composition of Vista, as in previous versions of Windows business class (XP Professional, Windows 2000 and NT Workstation), includes applications for monitoring system performance, which allows detailed analysis of various indicators of performance software and hardware components.
This application under the new title of "Manager of reliability and productivity" (Reliability And Performance Monitor) can be run from the menu Administration (Administrative Tools) on the Control Panel (Control Panel).

Counters and productivity tools
One of the new features Vista - Annex "Counters and productivity tools" (Performance Information And Tools), which analyzes the characteristics of devices and determine the performance evaluation, which is called "Windows" Productivity Index (Windows Experience Index, WEI). Annex evaluates each of the elements: the processor, RAM, video card (for the interface Aero productivity and performance of three-dimensional graphics and games valued separately) and the main hard drive. The lowest rating determines the overall system performance index.
• Management autoloading programs to accelerate downloads Vista
• Setting visual effects, which can increase productivity Vista, if you have a weak graphics card
• Changes in other settings, including options for allocating resources processor, the amount and location of the file swap
• Configuration parameters indexed to prevent the use of the program indexing large amounts of resources, which slows down the application.
• Configuration parameters power that enables you to find the optimum combination of performance and energy savings
• Cleaning up the hard drive, a system that speeds up access to files

Configuring your autostart
The more programs run in conjunction with the launch system, the longer it will be loaded. Removing the autoloader from those programs that do not require the user each time the computer can significantly accelerate the process of loading system.
When you click on the link "Managing autoloading programs" (Manage Startup Programs) in the annex Schetchikov and productivity tools run Windows Defender (Windows Defender Software Explorer), as shown in Fig. D.

Some programs from the list, you can remove or disable selecting entry in the list on the left and click "Delete" (Remove), or "Disable" (Disable) in the lower right corner. For a number of programs these buttons are inactive - in this case, remove from the programme will have to manually autoloader, for example, "Startup folder" (Startup), which is in the "Start" menu | All Programs (Start | All Programs), as shown in Fig. E.
To remove the program from Avtozagruzki, simply click on it right mouse button and choose "Delete". In this folder are only labels, so that the programme itself is not hurt. The list of programs that run at startup, you can also see through the application of Information System (System Information), as shown in Fig. G.

Setting visual effects
The speed of the system can be improved by changing your visual effects Vista - that is, sacrificing the sake of mere prettiness increased productivity. When you click on the link in the annex Schetchikov productivity tools and a dialog box control of user accounts (User Account Control) with a proposal to enter an administrator password. If the user is logged in as an administrator, he will be asked to confirm the continuation of the operation. This will speed Settings dialog box (Performance Options), as shown in Fig. H.

In any case, on the "Visual Effects" (Visual Effects), four options are available:
• Restore Defaults (Let Windows choose the best settings for your computer)
• To provide the best view (Adjust for best appearance)
• To ensure the best performance (Adjust for best performance)
• Special effects (Create custom settings) - here the user can turn off any visual effects in its discretion
The larger effects included, the slower the system works. Options: "To ensure the best performance" will turn off all the visual effects. In principle, there is a sense of disconnect solely aesthetic effects, such as displaying a transparent rectangle selection, smooth scrolling lists and the decay of menu commands after the call, leaving more functional, for example, instead of displaying thumbnail icons.

Change advanced settings
Havin opened tab (Advanced) in the Preferences dialog box performance, the user can change, and other settings that affect the speed of the system. In the first section, you can change the parameters of the distribution of CPU time, as shown in Fig. I, optimizing work programs or services running in the background. In order for faster reacted to the actions of the user, it makes sense to optimize programs. In the second section, you can change the amount and location of the file swap, which also improves performance. By pressing the button "Change" (Change), a dialog box "Virtual Memory" (Virtual Memory), as shown in Fig. J.

Configuring your index
The user can determine which folders to be indexed search engine Vista. If not sufficiently powerful computer, indexing takes too many resources and slow down other applications.
To change the parameters of indexing, along the left side Schetchikov and productivity tools you need to select the "indexing" Setting Preferences (Indexing Options). In the resulting dialog box, you need to press "Edit" (Modify), and click "Show all places" (Show All Locations) in the bottom of the dialog box seats "indexed" (Indexed Locations). After that the user can point out which folders will be indexed and which are not, as shown in Fig. K.

Setting up power
The more power a computer consumes, the faster the system. Determine the correlation between productivity and energy savings can be in the options menu of power supply plan. Vista offers three preset power supply plan, as shown in Fig. L:

• Balanced (automatic adherence to the balance between performance and power consumption)
• Energy (minimum energy consumption by reducing the productivity of the computer)
• High performance (maximum productivity through increased energy consumption).
Users can create their own plan of power by choosing the left side of the window item "Create a plan power" (Create A Power Plan). Master of creating a new plan allows you to adjust the settings of one of three proposed layouts, and plan to retain under its new name.

Cleaning and disk defragmentation
Vista Programs to clean and allow disk defragmentation delete unnecessary files, and change the location of data on disk, defragmentirovav them. This increases the speed of the system, facilitating access to the files on the disk.
Annex "Disk Cleanup" (Disk Cleanup) can be run from the task of the panel in the annex Schetchikov and productivity tools from the menu or All Programs | Accessories | Utility (All Programs | Accessories | System Tools).

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"Annex" Disk Defragmenter (Disk Defragmentation) can be run by clicking the "Advanced Tools" (Advanced Tools) along the left side Schetchikov and productivity tools from the menu or All Programs | Accessories | Utility (All Programs | Accessories | System Tools).

How else can I get information about system performance
Under the additional tools and applications Schetchikov means productivity has links to some applications to retrieve information about the system:
• Calendar (Event log)
• Manager reliability and productivity (Reliability And Performance Monitor)
• Task Manager (Task Manager)
• Information on the system (System Information)
• Setting up the system (Performance Options)
• Disk Defragmenter (Disk Defragmenter)
• Record of efficiency systems (System Health Report)

Conclusions
The operating system Vista can work slowly, but its performance can be significantly improved by changing some settings. Developers Microsoft users easier task, combining almost all of the tools needed for the annex Schetchikov funds and system performance.