BlackViper.com rides again ...

[Hum]

Sorry if something simular was posted, but I didn't see any, since 2005.

http://www.blackviper.com/index.html

I've found Black Viper's site well worth using, tho he disappeared a few times.

He has a lot of helpful Windows XP tweaks and now includes Vista guides and tweaks.

Welcome back, Charles :yes:

[Colin-uk Veteran]

BV does indeed rock :yes:

[DigitalE]

It seems like the majority of the the Vista "tweaks" are really just "disable all the features."

[Jack 0Neill]

Do anything that site suggests, and you break your computer! Good job!

[Hum]

^ Stuff I've disabled has not 'broken' my Win XP. :laugh:

[atlef]

Do anything that site suggests, and you break your computer! Good job!

Have used his tips for a long time, never broken anything. You need to read what he says about the different services, know what you need, and only disable those you are sure about. Not blindly follow "safe" or any of the other suggestions.

atlef.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

It is one of the best sites on the Net

[iZoom]

I agree. He does list tables as others have, but he has seemed to do research into dependencies and what services and functions are related. I had "blindly" turned some off, but after realizing what Windows Firewall depends on for example, I reenabled what is associated with it to function properly. Its a good source of helpful background information.

[cropcircles]

bv is indeed a legend.

[gastoni]

It is one of the best sites on the Net

And I'll second that!

[Skulltrail-old]

Vishal Gupta's website is 10x better. :p

http://www.askvg.com/

[.Gavin]

Vishal Gupta's website is 10x better. :p

http://www.askvg.com/

Cheers - added to bookmarks , looks interesting.

The BV site is packed with information, although from a design point of view the site could be re-designed

as its pretty basic.

[Skulltrail]

I don't see anything new. :ninja:

[BlackSteyrAug]

BV is the first place I visit after I reformat. After getting Firefox of course.

[Growled Member]

It is one of the best sites on the Net

Totally agree.

[shockz]

Cheers - added to bookmarks , looks interesting.

The BV site is packed with information, although from a design point of view the site could be re-designed

as its pretty basic.

I for one find the basic design refreshing. Just a black background and a blue border. Perfect. Efficient. Fast.

[+allan MVC]

Vishal Gupta's website is 10x better. :p

http://www.askvg.com/

Tell you what -- I'd never heard of Gupta's site until I just saw your post. I clicked on just one of his links and saw the following (under how to speed up Vista):

5. Type msconfig in RUN or Startmenu search box and press Enter. Now goto Startup tab and deselect the unnecessary entries, which you don't want to start automatically with Windows, e.g. you can disable VGA driver utility, Sound Card utility, etc to speed up the startup time and to increase system performance.

You never - NEVER disable services from within msconfig. Services should always be adjusted from the Services.msc module (Administrative Tools). All you are doing is utilizing diagnostic mode by making changes in msconfig. As I said, that's the only item I happened to read, but it was enough.

I recommend Black Viper's site on my forum all the time and for my money it's still the best.

[BlackSteyrAug]

Good eye :)

[Lt-DavidW]

You never - NEVER disable services from within msconfig. Services should always be adjusted from the Services.msc module (Administrative Tools). All you are doing is utilizing diagnostic mode by making changes in msconfig. As I said, that's the only item I happened to read, but it was enough.

Gupta did not recommend disabling services from msconfig. What you quoted referred to Startup items (not services) and they are safe to disable, as long as you know what you what items are what obviously.

It should be noted that unchecking items from Startup will cause Windows to go into 'Selective Startup' mode. This doesn't do any harm, but you can get Windows back to 'Normal Startup' by deleting all registry keys underneath startupfolder and startupreg in HKLM>Software>Microsoft>Shared Tools>MSConfig. This doesn't reenable any disabled Startup items.

Again, you should know what you are doing should you attempt this.

By the way, does anyone know if Vishal Gupta works for Microsoft? I'm sure I've worked with him before when I used to do work for Microsoft.

Edited January 1, 2009 by Haddaway

[+allan MVC]

Same thing David. It's okay to use msconfig to test startup configurations, but if you want to disable a startup item permanently it should be done from the location at which it starts (ie, startup folder, registry "run" location, etc). An old and great utility for managing startup items is Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel. It's free and I've been recommending it to everyone for many years.

[Scorbing]

Tell you what -- I'd never heard of Gupta's site until I just saw your post. I clicked on just one of his links and saw the following (under how to speed up Vista):

5. Type msconfig in RUN or Startmenu search box and press Enter. Now goto Startup tab and deselect the unnecessary entries, which you don't want to start automatically with Windows, e.g. you can disable VGA driver utility, Sound Card utility, etc to speed up the startup time and to increase system performance.

You never - NEVER disable services from within msconfig. Services should always be adjusted from the Services.msc module (Administrative Tools). All you are doing is utilizing diagnostic mode by making changes in msconfig. As I said, that's the only item I happened to read, but it was enough.

I recommend Black Viper's site on my forum all the time and for my money it's still the best.

Listen, no matter what you do, no matter what you change in services, msconfig, etc it's not going to make Vista any better or any faster. Vista being slow it's due to its architecture. It's the way it was designed and only Microsoft can change that not you, me or anybody. The slowness in Vista its due to a design flaw. I am not saying Vista sucks or anything like that, I use it myself, but we all have to admit that it does not respond as quick and as fast as XP because it's the truth.

Hopefully Microsoft learned from their mistakes and all those performance issues will be fixed on Windows 7. I have been testing the Beta of it and so far, so good. Very fast and responsive.

[HawkMan]

Listen, no matter what you do, no matter what you change in services, msconfig, etc it's not going to make Vista any better or any faster. Vista being slow it's due to its architecture. It's the way it was designed and only Microsoft can change that not you, me or anybody. The slowness in Vista its due to a design flaw. I am not saying Vista sucks or anything like that, I use it myself, but we all have to admit that it does not respond as quick and as fast as XP because it's the truth.

Hopefully Microsoft learned from their mistakes and all those performance issues will be fixed on Windows 7. I have been testing the Beta of it and so far, so good. Very fast and responsive.

Your truth is wrong.

[Scorbing]

Your truth is wrong.

No it's not. Look at the benchmarks. Do a little research and you will see. Especially in games. Stop being so Vista-Obsessed and accept the facts. Vista is fast at some things and very good at others but when it comes to game framerates, it fails. Vista's GUI does not respond as fast as XPs. Do your research.

Here. I'll save you the trouble of looking:

http://news.cnet.com/Windows-XP-outshines-..._3-6220201.html

http://www.ditii.com/2008/04/08/windows-xp...-rtm-benchmark/

http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/11/vista...rmance-dud.html

http://www.fiercecio.com/techwatch/story/v...oint/2008-02-15

Edited January 1, 2009 by Scorbing

[HawkMan]

Sure Vista's gui responds slower. if you run with DWM off.

if you think a DWM accelerated GUI respornds slower than XP, then you're soking some good ****.

as for games. It goes both ways. today it's actually prettyeven, but some games perform better on Vista some perform better on XP. There's no big majority either way, and there's no huge gap either way either.

Though I have noticed in games that does a lot of texture streaming due to loading an dunloading huge aount of textures constantly (such as MMO orMMO like games(Hellgate)) running in DX10 will give a LOT less of the typical stops or slowdowns that occur in DX9 on these games as it loads textures of the HDD. Wich allows you to run with higher resolution textures without getting those freezes.

And I trust my own bencharking more than I do that of the many anti Vista "journalists" out there, most of whom have never actually used vist at all, and actually use MAc and most of all who would also have thoguh Mojave was awesome.

[Scorbing]

Sure Vista's gui responds slower. if you run with DWM off.

What exactly do you mean by this? Isn't that turned on by default when you install Vista?