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kurat
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As you know Vista loves resources, there are many things you can do to make Vista run better, so I was thinking on starting a thread sharing tips and tweaks, my tip is, if you have installed SP1, you can regain some harddrive space from 1-6 gig+ by going to your run command and type in vsp1cln.exe, the command window will come up and tell you if you want to make SP1 permanent on this computer, if you pick yes, the clean up process begins, this can take a few min or longer but you can regain a good chunk of harddrive
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Alex^DJ^
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Thats a very nice tip and i never hear of it until now, thanks it gain on my laptop about 1 more gig just by doing that!.
Another tip is to earse your restore points and shadow copies ( go to your hard drive, right click mouse and properties) after that click on cleaning your hard drive (when you clean your IE cache, recicle binary etc) then choose more options..there you see restore points and shadow copies and choose Clean up!. You will gain a good chunk of Gigs too in that way, use only if you want that.
ANother ipe is never put 4 gigs on a vista-32 bit version, because has you know you may only use around 3 in total the 4 one will be fo system resources (video card, and the rest of the stuff) so if its vista 32-bit only stick to 3..if its the 64 bit version then yes you can put more and no problem.
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My Telescopes and Equipment:
- WO 66SD scope
- ETX-125 (Soon to be sold) "My Big Fat Mak"
- C6-ASGT " The Mexican "
- Starshoot CCD Cam
- Nextimagen Planetary Cam
- Canon EOS Rebel XTi (400D Unmoded)
Eyepices and Accesories:
- Celestron E-Lux 25mm
- GSO Superview 20mm
- GSO Superview 15mm
- ADM dual saddle plate
- 100mm Guide rings
- Orion 2X Shorty barlow
- Garmin E-Trex GPS handheld
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Alex^DJ^
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I just remember another tip, if you are in low ram (512 to 1 gig) its good to disable your side bar stuff (clock, date and all the gadgets)..this eats lots of ram. ANother one is to disable some services and some start up programs , but you should be carefull on this one, go to the search bar and put "msconfig" and hit enter, you will see aa windows..there choose services and just uncheck the ones you think they are usless (like google updater or adobe readers updater) and the same with start up ones (on the option start up)..you will be amaze that there are alot of programs that starts and you may no notice and they will eat you ram and are useless (like google updater)... Just be carefull what you uncheck..be double time sure you actually dont need it...
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My Telescopes and Equipment:
- WO 66SD scope
- ETX-125 (Soon to be sold) "My Big Fat Mak"
- C6-ASGT " The Mexican "
- Starshoot CCD Cam
- Nextimagen Planetary Cam
- Canon EOS Rebel XTi (400D Unmoded)
Eyepices and Accesories:
- Celestron E-Lux 25mm
- GSO Superview 20mm
- GSO Superview 15mm
- ADM dual saddle plate
- 100mm Guide rings
- Orion 2X Shorty barlow
- Garmin E-Trex GPS handheld
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Charlie B
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Reged: 03/22/08
Posts: 129
Loc: Virginia
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Many users, like me, don't like learning a new interface after using XP for so many years. Go to Start->Control Panel and click "Classic View" (top left of the window) to get an interface that is the same as XP.
Charlie B
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Meade SN-8, DS-90, AT-66
DSI Pro II (Schuler Filters), DSI-C, LPI, Canon XTi
AIP4WIN, Nebulosity, DSS, Registrax, GIMP
running on Dell 1420 with Vista
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basel10
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Loc: TN
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One of the best features in Vista is its amazing search. The search can be easily fine tuned. You right click on the start button. In the dialog that comes up make sure start menu tab is selected. Click on the customize button. Scroll down till you see search. If you want you can search communications, favorites and history, search programs and the most powerful is search entire index.
You can then customize the index from the control panel. Again Vista is search, search and search. Learn to use it and you will be twice as productive in Vista as your were in XP. On the upper right of the control panel is a search. Type in ind and boom there is the index. Wow isn't that great Vista rocks!!!!!!!! You can tell which folders to index and you can filter it to index only certain file extensions. I keep my songs on a secondary hard drive and if I used the default search settings I could never find my songs. With the tips above I just hit the start type kenny wa and boom there are all of my kenny wayne shepherd songs. I love Vista!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh no no run command in the start menu we are all going to die. Well if you must have it you can add it from the customize start menu but why. The search is also the run command. That's right isn't Vista super groovy awesome. want command line just type cmd, msconfig just type mscon boom there it is. The search is far better then the run. The run you have to have exact spelling with search you do not. So keep that run command hidden you don't need it. It is just too 90's.
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ClownFish
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Keep it simple, keep it cheap! Meade LXD75 SN8, Orion Guidescope, Olympus OM-1 and STI Stiletto. Celestron 15x70 Binos and SkyWindow. Learn all about POLAR ALIGNMENT with my Drift Method Tutorial and simulator!!
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Alex^DJ^
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Posts: 1200
Loc: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
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Another tip is to change the shadow storagem this a bit more complicated but you can gain another chunk of Gigs with this one. Go to the search bar an put "cmd" it will appear an icon on the search, right click on it and choose the option "run as administrator"...
There put the instruction "vssadmin list shadowstorage" and press enter..this will show you how much space is taking the shadow storage of Vista (for recovery purpose)..sometimes it can up to 25% of your Hard drive (imagine you have a 500 gig hard drive or 1 terabyte,,thats alot of Gigs)..
If you want to gain some gigs (make less big the shadow storage) you should do this,
add this instructions
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize=6GB
Of course the Letter C is for your hard drive (of course your hard drive may have another letter)..and the Maxsize is how much you want to use for shadow storage...like an example mine had 10 Gigs of shadow storage, and i wanted to use only 5gig..i just change with that instruction putting Maxsize=5GB...
And that's it..you can put any number there but you should have at least maybe 8% to 10% for the shadow storage.
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My Telescopes and Equipment:
- WO 66SD scope
- ETX-125 (Soon to be sold) "My Big Fat Mak"
- C6-ASGT " The Mexican "
- Starshoot CCD Cam
- Nextimagen Planetary Cam
- Canon EOS Rebel XTi (400D Unmoded)
Eyepices and Accesories:
- Celestron E-Lux 25mm
- GSO Superview 20mm
- GSO Superview 15mm
- ADM dual saddle plate
- 100mm Guide rings
- Orion 2X Shorty barlow
- Garmin E-Trex GPS handheld
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kurat
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Posts: 43
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TMM tweak on laptops
This tweak will cut system start time by 3-5 seconds and eliminating that blank screen flash when you start Vista. This happens when Vista searches for external monitors on startup of Vista. If you are not using an external monitor, or dont switch back and forth always...turn TMM off.
This is how to fix that black flicker on boot:
1. Go start/control panel/administrative options/task scheduler.
2. On the left-hand side, click "Task Scheduler". Local"Expand "Task Scheduler Library," then "Microsoft," then "Windows," then click "MobilePC."
Up top, you'll see a task called "TMM." Click it, and on the right-hand side, click "Disable."
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KimB
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Loc: UK
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If you are having trouble getting older programs to work under vista, try installing it into different location from "Program Files" directory. Vista will not allow non installation programs to alter or create files in the "program files" directory or it sub directories but tries to make a shadow copy in a different location (C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files). I created a new directory called "Legacy Programs" and install older programs there. An example of the programs that need this technique is virtual moon atlas which tries to create texture maps below it's install directory.
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Edited by KimB (06/11/08 02:27 PM)
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Joe Lalumia
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KimB--- that is a really GOOD tip! Thank you. 
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LX90 8" LNT, SV Nighthawk & TelePOD, SV 80/9D & M4 mount, ETX 90, Orion XT10i, 20x80 binoculars, SV-BV3s.
"I'm so old they've canceled my blood type." Bob Hope
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Greg K.
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Loc: Clifton Park, NY
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Kim,  good one!
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Orion SkyView Pro 8EQ w/ Autostar
15x70 Celestron SkyMasters
Orion 90mm Mak
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Charlie B
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Reged: 03/22/08
Posts: 129
Loc: Virginia
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Quote:
If you are having trouble getting older programs to work under vista, try installing it into different location from "Program Files" directory.
Its a good tip, but I think that SP1 fixed this problem. My Quicken 2004 would not install when I first tried it, but it is now installed and working fine.
Charlie B
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Meade SN-8, DS-90, AT-66
DSI Pro II (Schuler Filters), DSI-C, LPI, Canon XTi
AIP4WIN, Nebulosity, DSS, Registrax, GIMP
running on Dell 1420 with Vista
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Paul Romero
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Posts: 394
Loc: Reno, NV
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Hi all,
This is not really a tip, but rather a 'value added' feature. If you pay the extra $ for Vista Ultimate, you get file synchroniztion built in, along with remote desktop capability.
While I havent figured out how to get Vista to play nice with respect to remote desktop (anybody?), Microsoft does provide a tool to enable customized file synchronization...and its free (an attribute dear to my heart...unless your talking about an A&M telescope lol)
The tool is called synctoy 2.0, get it Here
My settings for my favorite folders to sync are:
itunes (use Echo ... because resetting databases on two PCs is too much work)
Documents (use Syncronization....because up to date copies on both computers are important)
Links...use Syncronization
Pictures...use Synchronization
hope this helps,
Paul
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Nexstar 11 GPS
8'x10' backyard 'skyshed'
and presenting...."Sweet Pudding", my AM 110mm FLT on 'Max', a MI-250 mount.
"Pablito Clavo un Clavito en la Calva de un Calvito"--by Jose A.
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bicparker
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Posts: 1353
Loc: Plano, TX
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Paul,
I remote desktop to my (work) Vista Enterprise laptop regularly from my Mac using the Mac RDC tool (remote desktop connection) and run it as a window on my iMac. I haven't had any problems with it per se. What issues are you encountering? You do have to have the remote services turned on in Vista for this to work, of course (you probably have done that, though).
Edit:
A minor correction here... you need Terminal Services turned on to use Remote Desktop Connection.
RDC is a free download from the Mac Business Unit of Microsoft.
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Bic Parker
17.5" f/5 dob
10" f/10 SCT
5" f/8 refractor
80mm f/6 refractor
66mm f/6 refractor
Plus a few others out of the rotation
Edited by bicparker (07/14/08 03:40 PM)
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