Whats a good Vista Tweaking software??

~~scurvy~~ · Feb 22, 2009, 09:53 AM

One that supports 64bit Vista.

I used to have TweakVI but it doesn't properly support Visat64

Zelig · Feb 24, 2009, 01:14 PM

Since nobody else responded...

There really isn't much tweaking to do with Vista.

Performance-wise, everything is set up pretty well to start.

Appearence-wise, options are pretty obvious in their usual places.

Functionality-wise, you can usually find what you need in the group policy editor, or at worst, through a google search of which registry values to edit.

Tipstaff · Feb 25, 2009, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Zelig

Since nobody else responded...

There really isn't much tweaking to do with Vista.

Performance-wise, everything is set up pretty well to start.

Appearence-wise, options are pretty obvious in their usual places.

Functionality-wise, you can usually find what you need in the group policy editor, or at worst, through a google search of which registry values to edit.

I have to agree with you on this. There really isn't a whole lot of tweaks. Overall, I'd say there's about 10, but most are personal dislikes. The more useful ones would be turning off auto-defrag, disable UAC, turning off some of the graphical options like Aero and the animate/fade/slide options for menus and what not inside the System/Advanced/Performance section, and lastly tweaking Indexing. Most people don't realize that you can tweak Indexing to only search certain folders you assign, thus speeding it up. I keep having people telling me to turn it off, but I found that once you tweak it, it becomes a whole different beast. A useful beast. Those seem to be the best ones, but the real "tweak" is to have SP1 installed as it has a bunch of patches that speed things up on the whole.

As for a tweak program that works in x64, TweakVista does, and I think so does Boost Windows 2009, although sometimes I find you have to uncheck some tweaks or the program will stall. Both are not free though.

Mac Daddy · Feb 25, 2009, 12:19 PM

I have found pretty much the same things over the last year or so Tipstaff. Like you said not a lot that needs tweaking after SP1 is installed.

blibbax · Feb 25, 2009, 05:18 PM

I'd reccomend the "Ultimate Windows Tweaker". I've found it to work on both 32 and 64 bit Vista, and although it does nothing that you couldn't do otherwise, it's nice to have all the options (and there are suprisingly many) in one place.

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