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Readyboost is the feature in Vista that allows you to add extra RAM with flash/USB drives. This is a useful feature if you have have maxed out your RAM already but still need some more. This usually works well with laptops that have more limited RAM capacities than desktop computers.

This is pretty easy, just do the following:

• Insert a flash drive or any other external memory device
• In the Removable Disk Properties click on the “ReadyBoost” tab
• Here you can select to use the device for system speed (note: You may receive a warning saying this device does not have the required performance characteristics for use in speeding up your system)
• It will now recommend how much space you should reserve for optimal performance (for example, a 512MB stick may recommend 430MB)
• Click apply
• Click OK

There you go, Windows Vista should now be faster.

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To help boost confidence for Vista, Microsoft recently announced that it would offer free technical support to small businesses that purchase Vista in the next three months. They are hoping that this move will push many weary business owners into the Vista upgrade.

On top of this, Microsoft has also offered to help those users downgrade from Vista to XP, if they are not satisfied with Vista.

This offer is called “Windows Vista Small Business Assurance”. If you want to take advantage of this offer, it is available to small businesses with less than 50 employees or 25 PCs.  This is also only available to small businesses purchasing new hardware, it doesn’t apply to upgrading existing computers from XP to Vista.

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Windows Vista has a bunch of tweaks that can either enhance performance or just make it a bit cooler. So today we will look at a quick little tweak to change the size of your desktop icons and file icons.

 To increase the size of your desktop icons, just do the following:

1) Click on an empty area of your desktop
2) Hold down the “Ctrl” key, then spin the mouse wheel up or down to adjust the size of the icons

To increase the size of your file/folder icons:

1) Open Windows Explorer
2) Hold down the “Ctrl” key and spin the mouse wheel until you get the desired size.

Here is a little sample of how the desktop icons look after they were increased in size:

Have fun!!

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Microsoft has released the Windows Vista Feature Pack for Wireless.

This software update is intended to improve wireless support in Vista and includes the following components:

• Bluetooth version 2.1 support
• Unified Pairing user interface
• Windows Connect Now updates

Some or all of these features may not work depending on your current hardware configuration. You will also need Vista SP1 installed.

To find out more about the Vista Feature Pack for Wireless – click here

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Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista has now been officially released. Microsoft claim that SP1 will make your computer more reliable, run more smoothly and become more enjoyable to use.

 If you don’t want to download SP1, then be aware that it will automatically download in mid April to PCs with automatic updates turned on.

You can download Vista SP1 Here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/sp1.mspx

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With Windows Vista you need some pretty decent hardware, otherwise it can be as slow as molasses in January. For those that are running Vista with just the minimum requirements, then these interface tweaks should make quite a noticeable improvement on the speed and performance.

Windows Vista Interface Tweaks

Turn off Aero:

• Right click your desktop
• Click personalize
• Click windows color and appearance
•  If the appearance setting box shows up you are probably not running Aero (but you can check this from the list)
• If you see the windows color and appearance box then click the open classic appearance link
• In the color scheme drop down click windows vista basic or Windows standard
• Click apply (could take a few seconds)
• Now click OK and you are done

Get Rid of Transparency:

• Right click your desktop
• Click personalize
• Click windows color and appearance
• Uncheck enable transparency
• Click OK

Remove the Sidebar

• Right-click the Sidebar
• Click on Properties
• Uncheck Start Sidebar When Windows Starts
• Click OK
• You can then remove the sidebar by right-clicking on it and select close sidebar

Turn Off Visual Effects

• Goto the control panel
• Click on Performance and System Tools
• In the Visual Effects tab you can turn off any unwanted and unnecessary that may be tying up system resources

Depending on your system, you might notice some decent speed increases just by turning off Aero and some of the other effects. But if things are still running slow then you can try removing the sidebar, transparency, etc.  

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