NBR Vista Tips and Tweaks Guide

[ilikeicehockey]

per openoffice, i cannot get the spell checker to work. I type in gibberish or an incorrect word and it does not have the red squiggly line under it nor does it recognize the mistakes when i use spellchecker. Anyone know how to activate it. Also What do programs had devastating results and were removed by flamenko as i would like to be safe also.

[crash]

AutoMZ was removed by flamenko because some people were experiencing big problems after using it.

[Calvin]

AutoMZ was removed by flamenko because some people were experiencing big problems after using it.

That's pretty freaky. I used it thinking it was perfectly safe but now it gets removed?! That kind of freaks me out. I used it and deleted the program along with the backups. I've installed way too much software from then to go back, what should i do?

[ScuderiaConchiglia]

That's pretty freaky. I used it thinking it was perfectly safe but now it gets removed?! That kind of freaks me out. I used it and deleted the program along with the backups. I've installed way too much software from then to go back, what should i do?

Nothing. If it did not IMMEDIATELY cause you a problem you are now safe. It was pulled because it STUPIDLY set the NumLock key on reboot. This caused folks who used a password at boot time to be locked out unless they happened to notice that the numlock was on. I suggested that ANY program that did anything that stupid is totally suspect.

Gary

PS the other app removed was TweakXP, which was never intended to be used under Vista. I wrote a batch file and documentation that performed the same function that TweakXP was being used for, namely boot file defrag and reorg.

[davron]

Wow.. even though I though of myself as an "advanced" user, not expecting to find anything helpful in this thread.... I actually learned something and that something made me feel stupid

The battery power plan:

I'll start first with a simple trick that most will laugh once they learn. Have you ever wondered why sometimes your system runs very slow, expecially after plug in from battery power with Vista???

This week my computer's performance decreased significantly and even using Rocketdock at medium settings used about 100% of both cores of my CPU (lol) so I was like ... and changing the plan to "High performance" fixed it!

I have to thank you +1!

[Les]

Cal....

I don't understand why people have so much problems with AutoMz. This may be because i don't use password login and havent experienced my cap locks coming on. I have used this program for months now and still continue to use it about once a month to clean up my system.

Many others have experienced the same as you may have. I pulled it out of respect for the few that had some troubles even though, I probably could have put a caveat with the program.

[nic.]

Switch from safe optimization to power optimization after a month of using AutoMz... Although i don feel significant difference but what can i say? Looking good there =).

Thanks flamenko and everyone who contribute to this thread i'm greatly appreciate. Seeing my system a lot faster than my friend's m1530 makes me feel great! (Although he does not tweak his system... Well what do you care? lol)

[Calvin]

If i recall correctly, windows told me i had caps lock on and i turned it off no problem. Whew, that takes a load of my mind.

[kbjack]

Sorry for the newbie question, but if I use mostly coffee shop and school wifi connections, will the #4 "Workstation service disable" option be available to me? I ask because I have significant delay between the appearance of desktop after startup and the recognition of connectivity.

Thanks

[crash]

Yes, it will still work. Or put better, it won't prevent you from connecting to those networks.