Today, a coworker was having problems with his Vista machine. That got me started on a list of setting changes I've made to my installation that increased performance. Albeit, some of these are risky in terms of security. Here is a raw list of things you can do to speed up and free up disk on your Vista Business operating system (mileage may vary):
Turn off Windows Defender Service:
Administrative Tools/Services/Windows Defender service...right click, select Properties, change to Stop and set startup type to Disabled...will get a warning message when starting windows but is ok.
Turn off UAC - user account control:
Control Panel\User Accounts\Turn User Account Control on or off...turn it off .
Turn off System Restore:
Control Panel/System/click on SYstem protection...select the System Protection tab if it isn't already. uncheck any hard drives that you want to remove system restore points from. this will free up about 2GB of disk space.
Clear Problem Reports and Solutions:
Settings/Problem Reports and Solutions...click on Clear solution and problem history. the operating system will try to solve problems in the background if they exist in the list.
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