NBR Vista Tips and Tweaks Guide

[Destiny]

i'm thinking of creating a .reg file that u just click and it will completely tweak ur computer for performance. anyone interested?

Would be a great idea and speed up the whole process up

[ScuderiaConchiglia]

i'm thinking of creating a .reg file that u just click and it will completely tweak ur computer for performance. anyone interested?

A reg file would be an "all or nothing" "one size fits all" solution. Not a good idea, in my opinion.

Gary

[ScuderiaConchiglia]

Would be a great idea and speed up the whole process up

Except that it would assume that everybody wanted, needed and could use all of the same tweaks.

Sounds like just the sort of thing Lennin would suggest.


Gary

[jisaac]

One registry tweak is:
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop, double-click MenuShowDelay in the right-hand pane, and change the value from 400 to 5

Except that it would assume that everybody wanted, needed and could use all of the same tweaks.

why wouldn't anyone want a faster start menu? of course some tweaks will be laptop specific but i will not include this if i do end up posting a reg file

[ScuderiaConchiglia]

One registry tweak is:
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop, double-click MenuShowDelay in the right-hand pane, and change the value from 400 to 5



why wouldn't anyone want a faster start menu? of course some tweaks will be laptop specific but i will not include this if i do end up posting a reg file

I never suggested that someone would not want a faster start menu. All I said was if you lump a lot of tweaks into a single registry file, then folks would have to accept the entire list of tweaks. Or at the very least have to edit the registry file before they apply it.

As long as you made a very generic list of tweaks this concept might work. But if you propose to include the entire list from this thread, I don't think it would apply to many folks.

Gary

[McGrady]

I did that reg tweak. I didnt notice a difference though

[Les]

jisaac...

Can I suggest maybe you start a new thread with that? I get a bit nervous with such things because it opens up a whole new 'canundrum' when the tweaks do not work or an ill effect is experience by someone who didn't do something correctly.

Making a 'one step' solution would deserve its own thread in any case and, after a successful response pattern, I would gladly throw it on here. This is what should occur.

Can we remove that thread and create a post that deserves its own specific responses??

[jisaac]

ye sure no problem,
link to new forum: one click vista tweaking using 2kb file
you said in your guide that you have a weekly tune-up schedule. Les would you be interested in testing out a batch file made by me, that automates this schedule and so makes it faster?
i just thinking why do something yourself when a single file can do it for you in a fraction of the time lol

[jisaac]

hmmm... seems a proper gui program would be the only solution to the 'one size fits all' problem. I might try it soon, i have a bit of experience in c++

[ScuderiaConchiglia]

hmmm... seems a proper gui program would be the only solution to the 'one size fits all' problem. I might try it soon, i have a bit of experience in c++

I tried to tell you that! [big ol' grin]

If you do the "proper gui" program I highly encourage you to have it not only perform the tweak but to show EXACTLY what it is going to do to the registry, even to the point of letting the user save off a copy of that info.

If I were specing this out I'd have a list of all the patches with a checkbox by each. Hovering the mouse over any of them would bring up a description of what the patch does. Then I'd have three buttons at the bottom. One would read "Make the selected changes", the second would read "Make a registry update file to apply the selected changes" and the third would read "Make a registry update file to UNDO the selected changes". Oh wait how about a fourth button "Undo the selected changes".

The two registry update files would satisfy the paranoid folks like me, who can't afford to have their development environment hosed. And it would give complete transparency into what the app is really doing, something no other tweak app has, that I know of.

I have encouraged Lawrence of WinBubbles to do this sort of thing (transparency) for months, to no avail. All I ever get back is some lip service about "all will be revealed". It's a lot of BS. He has no intention of revealing what his app does. All he cares about is seeing his name show up on shareware sites. He thinks that because they list his app or give it a high rating that they think it is good, and his ego grows further. He has no clue that 90% of such sites will highly rate anything that anyone submits. They don't care about truthful ratings, they are only concerned with driving traffic to their own sites. Now having said that, his app has gotten some good ratings from a few reputable sites, but I refuse to recommend a tweak app to anyone that doesn't completely document what the tweaks do.

Gary