NBR Vista Tips and Tweaks Guide

[manzi]

I understand but my system does not slow down when the animation is turned on. Basically when its turned of the window straight away maxs/mins but with the animation it takes 0.5sec longer as the anomation itself has to be played.

[Calvin]

Okay, now i see what you are saying. I guess that would be a tweak even if it is .5 seconds. I mean .5 seconds for about 3 years equals like 10 minutes you could have used to do something else.

[Les]

ACtually, Im going to through a program in in a few days that throws a huge speed boost in exactly what your speaking of without turning anything off.

Many of the things we do such as presing the start button and going tinto control panel as well as opening up my computer properties...all have a time delay attached to them of a few milliseconds. Some are longer. i have a program that, I find anyway, makes alot of the key presses instant.

Im working through the pros and cons with my alter egos presently however.

[manzi]

LoL its just that i find it more annoying than helpful, espcially after having that animation turned of my 5 year old desktop with 256mb ram, so I feel like its slower than my desktop at maxing and mining windows.

[manzi]

ACtually, Im going to through a program in in a few days that throws a huge speed boost in exactly what your speaking of without turning anything off.

Many of the things we do such as presing the start button and going tinto control panel as well as opening up my computer properties...all have a time delay attached to them of a few milliseconds. Some are longer. i have a program that, I find anyway, makes alot of the key presses instant.

Im working through the pros and cons with my alter egos presently however.

Ah thats exactly what im talk about, i too have noticed that theres a 0.5 second lag when clicking start etc. In the end it all adds up making the laptop feel slower. Actually if your program turns out to be good it may eliminate some need for a 7200 rpm hdd!

[Calvin]

No we need the 7200rpm for many other things, but i don't see any significant cons to disabling the registry lag Flamenko but once your done testing we'll know.

[manzi]

BTW i always have my system on Power Saver and i've set the HHD on Quiet through the BIOS.

[Les]

Your not talking about the system in your signature are you? AAAhhhhhh!

Thats a killer. It will do so much more. Go High performance and take the HDD off quiet. It is very minimal noise diff anyway.

[ScuderiaConchiglia]

Actually the animations slow ALL machines down regardless of the graphics power. Try turning them off to see the effect. It's not that it slows the machine down really, its that it animates the process of closing the window. Without the animation the window just disappears. But the length of the animation is soooooo short that the benefit of turning it off is marginal at best. It is no where near a second. Another one of my favorite, I dare you to measure it with a stop watch tweak. As I have said before, to me any tweak that can't be measured with a stop watch is not worth mentioning.

[manzi]

Your not talking about the system in your signature are you? AAAhhhhhh!

Thats a killer. It will do so much more. Go High performance and take the HDD off quiet. It is very minimal noise diff anyway.

I still think it performs ok on Power Saver as its mainly used for Internet browsing and writing word docs. I only put it in High performance when I am playing games etc. I actallu did see quite a difference in hdd noise and my sister wants it to be fast, quiet etc so i just left it on Quiet.