What can I turn off on a vista laptop to free up resources
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I have a vista laptop (Toshiba if that makes a difference). It works ok some times, but a lot of the time the disk seems to grid and the system is pretty unresponsive when I am not doing very much with it. What can I turn off/remove to make it run faster? It seems that a lot of the default stuff do…
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Turning off aero can usually speed things up. Edit: Here's some registry hacks. And turning off programs at start up (like Quicktime or MSN Messenger) I use CCleaner for this.
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