Anyway to speed up Laptop running Vista Customizing Vista Discuss Anyway to speed up Laptop running Vista in the Windows Vista forums; I find that my desktop is consistently slower when I let Windows choose what is best than when I select best appearance. I would get an Optimized (or Enhanced, whichever) ...

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I find that my desktop is consistently slower when I let Windows choose what is best than when I select best appearance. I would get an Optimized (or Enhanced, whichever) for Vista flash drive rather than use a card. Even fairly large flash drives are inexpensive now. But, as others have said, more RAM is a better idea. My experience is that defragging excessively can slow a machine down as compared to defragging only when the fragmentation percentage is allowed to increase to a point. While this observation does not make much sense on the surface, I only degrag when I suspect that a performance degradation has occurred and my fragmentation percent is "high." I don't have a ready guideline for when it is too high--maybe 15 to 20 %.

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Originally Posted by Mustangman76

HI

also has anyone herd of useing the readyboost on a flashdrive will kill...or reduce its life

If you uninstall the FLASH drive wrong,(simply pulling it out) it does have the ability to shorten the life span... bur normally it should have very little effect...also simply pulling the flash drive out can have serious effects on your computer.

[Mustangman76]

Hi

actually MS(microsoft) told me that it would kill the flashdrive.. :P... go figure they create this program and then they tell me that it can kill my flashdrive..

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could you post the reply, reason I ask is I know of at least two MS MVP that would like to know who told you that...and in what reference they told you.
I mentioned I'd ask you to post the Email or at sent to me (PM) with what ever removed to protect your privacy..and with your permission forward to them.

Thanks

[Mustangman76]

Hi

Sorry it wasn`t in a email it was on the phone support line... :S..