You can speed up your SATA hard drive by enabling write cache in your operating system. But with enabling write caching is an increased risk for data loss/corruption should you experienced a power loss. But this risk will less in laptop computer because it’s use battery. To enable write caching in windows vista please follow this steps :

1. Click on the Start Button, enter Device Manager and hit Enter.
2. Expand Disk Drives.
3. Right-click on your hard disk drive and select Properties.
4. On the Policies tab, check Enable Advanced Performance.
5. Click OK and close Device Manager.
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To increase your windows vista performance you can setting the indexing option, Windows operating system is automatically index all the files in the Start Menu. If you have many files in these locations and the files change often, the indexing service may slow down your system’s performance. Windows Vista allow you to tweak indexing service easily, not like windows XP. It is recommended that you disable indexing for the other locations other than the Start Menu for maximum performance. This is the simple steps to Tweak indexing service.

1. Click on the Start Button and enter Indexing Options. Hit Enter and the Indexing Options should load.

2. Click on the Modify button, followed by Show all locations.
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The boot screen in Windows Vista has easy to change, you can choose the boot screen as you want, your photo, your girl friend or your family. Just using the great tool by Dan Smith it’s possible to automatically generate the replacement language MUI file that contains your boot image files. Just prepare two photos that have resolution 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768 and saved as 24-bit windows bitmaps. And follow these steps :

1. Download Dan Smith’s Vista Boot Logo Generator. And Install it !
2. Run the software from the start menu.
3. Hit Browse for image and select both the 800×600 and 1024×768 resolution bitmap files for your boot screen.
4. Click on File and select Save Boot Screen File as and save your file.
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The new features of Windows Vista is System File Checker (SFC), this new utility allows to perform a scan of all protected resources to verify that they are the correct version. This new features can replace the incorrect files with the correct versions.

There is the few simple steps to use the System File Checker :

1. Click the Windows button>> All Programs>> Accessories.
2. Right click the Command Prompt option and then select “Run as administrator” from the resulting menu.
3. With the Command Prompt window showing, type in: sfc /scannow [Enter]
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Windows Vista has new improvements at the backup features that are incorporated in to System Restore. By default the backup features are turned on and doing the automatic backup. If this operation run everyday your available disk space will decreased. It may not be a bad idea to go in and delete the old backup files and restore points to increase your available disk space. Vista makes this task a very simple one. here’s how:

1. Go to Start
2. In the Instant Search text box, type: disk cleanup
3. Open the disk cleanup tool and select the option titled: Files from all users on this computer
4. Select the drive that you would like to cleanup.
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When you purchase new operating system like Windows Xp or Windows Vista, the graphic card driver has already installed as soon, because this Operating system is have a plug and play hardware driver. However, if there are those that need much higher performance from their graphics card, perhaps for gaming purposes, then the default driver isn’t going to be good enough. Find out which graphics card is installed in your system, then visit the graphics card manufacture and install an updated driver (if available). This should help speed things up rather nicely!

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Share file from Windows Vista to OS X is not simple as share from Windows XP. There is 3 simple steps to share your file from Windows Vista To OS X.

Step 1

Go to the OX X’s System Preference, than select the “Sharing” icon and enable “Windows Sharing”. Please enable your designated user account by click the “Account” button.

Step 2

You must enable your File and Printer Sharing in Vista and that an icon for your Mac is showing up in your Network Explorer alongside every other device connected to your network. By the way, if you can’t even see an icon for your Mac in the Windows Network Explorer (same icon as the other machines on your network), you might check to see if they’re on the same network altogether.
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With the new feature called Windows Vista Backup Utilities, you don’t worry about losing your important data, favorite music or picture. Back up you files just with a few easy steps using Vista Backup utility.

You can run the utility from two locations:

1. Start - All Programs - Maintenance - Backup and Restore Center
2. Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Backup Status and Configuration.

Both have pretty much the same options, the only difference being how they are displayed.
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With windows media player, windows vista user can burn CD/DVD quickly and easily, Windows media player have a friendly user interface, will give you no headaches and it will save you time.

Step 1 :

Click star menu than opern Windows Media Player then click the burn button. Insert Blank CD or DVD and drag the data that you want to burn. Songs, Albums, playlist and drag to the burn list.

Step 2 :

If you want to burn data but not Audio CD or DVD. click on the arrow bellow the Burn button, and choose Data CD or DVD.
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