Posted 11/11/2009 at 02:05:27pm

I would also move all browser cache's to your other drive, you can look it up depending on your browser. I also would disable Page File, and move your windows temp folders to the other drive, its under System Properties under the Advanced Tab and its in the setting button under performance. 

You can try this if your computer is stable with no issues, turn off System Restore like someone else mentioned which will free up space. Then turn it back on if you like system restore and create a restore point, doing it once a month will help.

Use CCleaner as others have mentioned. 

Posted 08/12/2009 at 01:45:18pm

My Vista is as stable as all of my companys XP computers. The truth is Vista is a good OS, but you have to have good hardware and apply some tweaks. I installed Vista last week to my new 60GB SSD with 128MB of cache, and wow I have never ever seen vista so fast!! 

It installed in like 14 minutes, and boots up in about 15 seconds, which for Vista is excellent. I was even surprised how fast SP1 installed, it took 18 minutes versus my previous solid state without cache took about 40 minutes. Vista can be fast with a good SSD with cache, turning off Readyboost, Superfetch, Windows Search will also help a lot. Disabling System Restore is a good idea too, because you can do a full backup with whatever utility you have in no time, so who cares about System Restore. Don't buy an SSD without cache, and there is a good amount of them for decent prices. I know they will fill up with a lot of games quick, but just beat and uninstall them, thats what I do, because with the good SSD drives, it wont take long to install it again if needed!! On that note, store all the other crap on a huge regular internal or external drive, so don't complain that there not big enough, because the performance is worth it!!

Who cares about what CPU you have, even if its an old one, get an SSD with cache and you will be ok and most importantly, happy!! 

When I work on peoples Vista setups I always to what I stated above, and it helps dramatically. I usually keep system restore on because most of my clients don't know how to do backups, or that one extra step is too much, so yea I leave it on.  If Vista isn't constantly indexing and doing who knows what else, it runs good, darn close to my old XP setup.

My Setup:

AMD Phenom II X4 3.0 GHz 

6GB RAM

60GB OCZ SSD 128MB cache

ATI 3870 X2 (I know, its old)

ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe

A setup like this with the tweaks mentioned above makes Vista the shiznit. 

Posted 07/14/2009 at 01:27:12pm

All past versions sucked, consumed resources and in plain english, did not prevent anything!! Worked on a laptop yesterday, with it all up to date and running and active subscription, and sitll had a bunch of rogue spyware apps on it. I thought its suppossed to remove and block these things.

Use VIPRE, the best I have ever used, against other free and pay apps. NOD32 is good, but this program is just even greater, blocks anything bad form even writing to the hard drive the first time it trys to. You wont even know its running!! Scans descritly, a lot of custom control, such as if it blocks something thats not bad, move to the always allow area. I found it hard to do with Norton products.

Posted 04/29/2009 at 07:37:31pm

CPU - AMD Phenom 8750 Toliman 2.4GHz - $87.00

Board - GIGABYTE GA-M61PME-S2P - $49.99 

Memory - Kingston HyperX 2GB DDR2 1066 - $25.99

Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda 7200 - $44.99

Video Card - SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4850 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 - $139.99

Optical Drive - HP 20X DVD+R SATA CD/DVD Burner - $21.99

Case - HEC  Mini Tower Computer Case 585W Power Supply - $54.99

Subtotal - $424.94

Tax -       $35.06 (California Central Valley) - (City of Manteca) 

Grand total with shipping to where I live is $470.52

I have built a rig with this Tri-core, and to say they least when paried with a very similiar video card, the preformance was darn good.  Leave some comments to tell me how this rig shapes up.