NBR Vista Tips and Tweaks Guide

[kjt]

Thanks for putting this together Les and to all who helped.

Múcho appreciated lads!!

[Les]

Glad u like it!

[kjt]

By the way you more than likely know but just for some of the new folks that tweak their pc a good bit - pressing the Windows key and pause-break will get you into systems properties instead of right-clicking My Computer and properties.

Just a little thing but it's quite handy when your in there all the time

[MB W163]

Wow this is great! I will put this on my to do list. By the way, does anyone know of a XP guide like this?

[tomk7]

Is that kill startup time thing different now?

My registry looks different

[Funkymoe]

disregard, it's working now.

[tyrus13]

Hi there,

16. Check out this disk defragmenter and optimizer by ScuderiaConchiglia!!

Earlier, I had included two programs that, for the most part, had alot of success. After a great deal of consideration I have elected to remove these because, for a select few, these have had devastating results. ScuderiaConchiglia has been generous enough to tear apart one of these programs to extract and create a command file for a very powerful system optimization. This optimization will cut your system startup time in half!

His defrag application can be found here but please read through the thread to ensure a full understanding of the process.

Is this a one time thing or do you need to do this every once in a while?

Thanks!

[crash]

Hi there,



Is this a one time thing or do you need to do this every once in a while?

Thanks!

You really only need to run this if you change your startup programs/processes or use another defrag program.

See this post by Gary: NBR Vista Tips and Tweaks Guide

[fonduekid]

Dear Les, Gary and everyone else, I have been following Les' guide for the tweaks n tricks in vista, and I have been using Gary's defrag and optimizing tool as well. Its been good and great. I just have a few questions - (1) Is it ok to keep mixing up the defrag options from windows and the one your made (the bat file)? I mean, lets say this week I run the optimizer from Gary and next week I, by mistake, do a defrag from within windows OS? Is this ok? Because I think I notice a small difference (may be its just an illusion!) in the startup time, but where as both you and Les have said the optimizer you made defrags the drive and optimizes it. So can you please be kind to let me know your thoughts? (2) The other day, by mistake, I enabled "compress this drive (C to save disk space".. and then I realized it actually makes it slower because then every time the system has to look in compressed files and blah blah blah. So I went back, disabled it and was applying the changes, when, again by mistake, before the process could be completed, I closed the C: drive properties window :-( So does this mean the 'uncompression' did not complete and some files are still there being compressed? If yes, how do I get it all uncompressed again? Note: I dont see any major difference in the performance of my system though. I still can open files, programs and stuff as fast as it was after I applied Les' guide and your defrag bat process. Please, let me know. Thanks for your time in reading my message and I'm waiting to hear from you. FURTHER, Also, I have used Gary's defrag process once a week till now.. the first time it took a long time (this I can understand because may the C: drive was being defrag'ed for the first time) but then even the second or third time it still takes around an hour or so.. why do you think its that? Because you said in your post, that it took around 7 mins for you, but make take an hour. Is it always that it takes an hour to get done? Or is it because in between I did the Windows defrag and so your optimizer had to do it all over again? So please let me know if its fine just to follow yours? I am following Les' weekly maintenance schedule, and so instead of doing the Windows defrag, may be I will just do the system clean up, restore point clean up, use the CCleaner, and finally use *only* Gary's optimizer. Does doing this sound ok to you? Thanks and please do let me know your thoughts.. Cheers everybody.

[crash]

Dear Les, Gary and everyone else, I have been following Les' guide for the tweaks n tricks in vista, and I have been using Gary's defrag and optimizing tool as well. Its been good and great. I just have a few questions - (1) Is it ok to keep mixing up the defrag options from windows and the one your made (the bat file)? I mean, lets say this week I run the optimizer from Gary and next week I, by mistake, do a defrag from within windows OS? Is this ok? Because I think I notice a small difference (may be its just an illusion!) in the startup time, but where as both you and Les have said the optimizer you made defrags the drive and optimizes it. So can you please be kind to let me know your thoughts? (2) The other day, by mistake, I enabled "compress this drive (C to save disk space".. and then I realized it actually makes it slower because then every time the system has to look in compressed files and blah blah blah. So I went back, disabled it and was applying the changes, when, again by mistake, before the process could be completed, I closed the C: drive properties window :-( So does this mean the 'uncompression' did not complete and some files are still there being compressed? If yes, how do I get it all uncompressed again? Note: I dont see any major difference in the performance of my system though. I still can open files, programs and stuff as fast as it was after I applied Les' guide and your defrag bat process. Please, let me know. Thanks for your time in reading my message and I'm waiting to hear from you. FURTHER, Also, I have used Gary's defrag process once a week till now.. the first time it took a long time (this I can understand because may the C: drive was being defrag'ed for the first time) but then even the second or third time it still takes around an hour or so.. why do you think its that? Because you said in your post, that it took around 7 mins for you, but make take an hour. Is it always that it takes an hour to get done? Or is it because in between I did the Windows defrag and so your optimizer had to do it all over again? So please let me know if its fine just to follow yours? I am following Les' weekly maintenance schedule, and so instead of doing the Windows defrag, may be I will just do the system clean up, restore point clean up, use the CCleaner, and finally use *only* Gary's optimizer. Does doing this sound ok to you? Thanks and please do let me know your thoughts.. Cheers everybody.

Your questions on Gary's defrag program are answered in my post right above yours.

About the compressed drive... I'm don't really know the answer. I suppose you could compress it again and then decompress it to make sure all the files are decompressed.