NBR Vista Tips and Tweaks Guide

[thomaskc.dk]

It did nothing to my system when i testet on vista ultimate 32bit.

It sees 3gb of my 4gb no matter what i do.

[ScuderiaConchiglia]

Originally Posted by thomaskc.dk

It did nothing to my system when i testet on vista ultimate 32bit.

It sees 3gb of my 4gb no matter what i do.

Since you didn't bother to quote the message you are responding to or offer the slightest clue as to which of the multiple tweaks here you are referring to, we have absolutely NO IDEA what you are talking about.

Gary

[manu08]

Please excuse me if this question has already been answered-I read a couple of pages in between but found nothing-but is it safe to use CCleaner for 'registry'? As in, in CCleaner on the left you have 'cleaner', and 'registry' is there as well. Is it safe to use that registry cleaner from it? Also, you don't tick/check any more options in 'cleaner' in CCleaner than the default yeah? I use Firefox on Vista Home Premium. Thanks for the help.
Amazingly awesome tips btw.

[philfna]

As with security and the registry I always say "safe" is a "relative" term. I personally know that CrapCleaner is relatively safe. It did however monkey up my thinkpad's touchpad, but I was able to remember to exclude that the next time I cleaned. But in general it has a been very safe to use. Each build seems to get better, and the term "safe" gets "safer" with each build. Just remember you can always restore a registry clean up. I would however exercise caution since if you don't know how the registry works you can royally mess up what you have. If it is stable and runs well I'd skip the registry cleaning.

[manu08]

Fair enough. But when I did the scan (I didn't clean the registry, just wanted to see what it shows needs to be cleaned) under 'data' I could see the names of a lot of my programs that I had uninstalled but then again it's way too big for me to pick out what I have/haven't heard of and clean only the ones I am 100% sure of (like the programs I've uninstalled). Hmm only if Windows was made better we wouldn't need to do all this! lol

[philfna]

The only problem I have ever had is with the thinkpad pointer. So I would imagine you'd be okay. But just in case you can always rollback.

[daffie]

Originally Posted by manu08

Please excuse me if this question has already been answered-I read a couple of pages in between but found nothing-but is it safe to use CCleaner for 'registry'? As in, in CCleaner on the left you have 'cleaner', and 'registry' is there as well. Is it safe to use that registry cleaner from it? Also, you don't tick/check any more options in 'cleaner' in CCleaner than the default yeah? I use Firefox on Vista Home Premium. Thanks for the help.
Amazingly awesome tips btw.

Hi,

I use CCleaner all the time on my Vista Home Premium version. Never encountered any problem. Hope this helps...

[kozzney]

Originally Posted by daffie

Hi,

I use CCleaner all the time on my Vista Home Premium version. Never encountered any problem. Hope this helps...

I second that; I use CCleaner both the registry cleaner and the crap cleaner on Vista Home Premium all the time

[ScuderiaConchiglia]

Edit 10/28/2009: Looking for info about defragging boot files under Windows 7? Then Click here

Some time ago I posted a long message in this thread explaining what was REALLY going on behind the scenes when TweakXP was being used to optimize the boot files under Vista.

I mentioned that I wanted to create an app or some way for folks to do the same thing on their own without the need for TweakXP. (Especially since it was NEVER designed for Vista in the first place and some of its other options might be detrimental to Vista's health.) I have been swampped since then, but yesterday this issue came up again in the Sony forum here. So, after helping someone there with this issue I am copying it here as well.

------------Quoted from the Sony Forum here---------------------------------
Have you allowed Vista to defrag and reorder the boot files? Most laptop users never get a chance for this to be done, because they don't leave their machines idle long enough for the automatic process to kick in. There is a whole series of messages about this in the "top tweaks" thread. The tweak recommended is to use an app called TuneXP, which was designed for XP and use it to do some "magical" trick to defrag and reorder the bootfiles. I did a complete expose' of exactly what it does and it comes down to two simple commands.

Open notepad and paste these two lines in it:

Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks
defrag -b %SystemDrive%

Next save the file on your desktop with an extention of .BAT. (DO NOT NAME THE FILE DEFRAG.BAT) Or better yet I'll include an attachment right here!

It is a zip file but just open it and move the file to your desktop. Close ALL running applications.

Then right click on it and select run as administrator. The first line just tells Vista that all applications are idle and it can start a background task that is just sitting there waiting for this event to occur. That task analyzes the bootfile history that Vista maintains and creates a file with the optimum order for these files. The second line starts a specialized defrag process that uses that ordering information and puts these bootfiles into the proper sequence!

It will popup a command window and look like it is just sitting there hung on the first line. It's not, trust me. If you open Task Manager and view all running processes you will see Defrag and DfrgNtfs running. When they are done the command window will disappear. Be patient give it some time. It can take anywhere from a few seconds to an hour even. Just depends on how fragmented your files are. I just ran it and it took about seven minutes. Your disk drive light will show LOTS of activity.

Sit back, have a cup of coffee or whatever. Just wait until the command window disappears. That cannot be stressed highly enough! DO NOT CLOSE THE WINDOW! BE PATIENT! LET IT FINISH! Now reboot and see if it made any difference in boot time.


Gary
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P.S. flamenko feel free to use this in place of the TweakXP segment in your primary post here if you wish. Just be sure to include the zip file as well, if you do.

[crash]

Thanks a lot, Gary.