Frankly, optimization tools work but not to your expectation. Many companies – the creator of these great optimization tools during the day of XP, simply just failed to deliver much performance on Vista. I am not saying they are not good anymore, but rather compliments to Microsoft doing a great Job! I know there are many complaints on Windows Vista, but hey, this is a complicated mission, who gets it done beside Bill Gates? NONE!

OK, I am not going into argument with comparing other operating systems, Vista is the kind of its own, and may be XP is similar to compare!

Back to the topic, I found that doing some manual tuning helped more than commercial optimization software, and some free tools that automate the registry tuning is helpful as well.

You can find all kinds of tuning tips around, try them first before you use any optimization software, because you can spend money anytime, but not necessary get the result for very penny you spend. Therefore, try the free tips first, then consider the tools later.

May be after more tips and tricks developed in the near future, some good software will be appeared to automate those tricks. For now, rather than spend any money on tuning tools, I prefer to spend more money on hardware for greater performance.

For majority people who do not want to spend more, I would still recommend manual tuning over software tuning, certainly you can use some free or paid tools to assist your tuning work, but you can’t 100% rely on them.

I have tried few optimization tools on Internet connection tuning, and almost each of them tuned rather differently…The parameters of MTU and RWIN is different between each software! Which to follow? You better stay with one tool at a time to find out the result.

My conclusion: Vista optimization tools are not a SCAM, but does not perform well at the time of this article, you can expect better result in the near future, may be 1 year hence forward? Meanwhile, optimize your Vista manually!

(C) Copyright 2008 Kok Choon – Feel free to reprint this article in its entirety as long as all links and author resources box in place.

When it comes to tweaking tips or tools, you will find that most of them helped a bit but no significant improvement, then you might draw a conclusion that: They are just myths, and no way you can really speed up your Vista! Even so, I am telling you, this is not the case, you are doing it wrongly, and I will show you the correct way…

Myth #1 – One click and done!

There are no software or tricks can be automatic tune up your Vista speed without some manually tuning parameters, you may gain some performance advantage, but certainly not to the maximum level, manually tuning is always a requirement.

Myth #2 – Internet or Network tuning.

Most of these software and tuning tips applied in XP will not necessary suitable for Vista, such as MTU and RWIN parameters. You need to disable Vista TCP auto tuning to get them work, but not necessary maximizing the hardware potential as compare to TCP auto tuning, unless you know how to manually tune them, then the tools will make sense to you.

Myth #3 – You computer will be faster.

However, Vista is running faster, but not your computer. Your PC will always be the same, but saving the resources for Vista and its’ application makes overall performance on Windows faster. If you are enthusiast enough, strip everything else and kept only the core. You might lose comfort to your Windows but gain enormous performance over it.

Myth #4 – More RAM more speed.

This is a bell curve situation, where your RAM amount reached the peak of your needs, it starts to stabilize and drop in performance when application requires more processing power than memory. That is why Vista pre-cache application in memory to accelerate the launch time and speed, it assumed you have more memory than your application needed. For the low memory system, caching will become a nightmare, because no more room for application to run, and Vista needs to use virtual memory such as page file and ReadyBoost to run the application.

You need to try and record each tuning steps to confirm the effectiveness. To save more time on tuning rather than myth, you may want to try “Unleash Vista Power Advance Guide”.

(C) Copyright 2008 Kok Choon – Feel free to reprint this article in its entirety as long as all links and author resources box in place.