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        Boosting Vista Startup Performance

Section(s): Misc
Published on Nov 20, 2008.
Last Modified on Aug 29, 2008.
Last Modified by Mitch Tulloch.
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How can you improve the startup performance of your Vista computer? Disable SuperFetch!

A quick way to boost the startup performance of a computer running Vista is to disable the SuperFetch features.

To disable the SuperFetch service, use the Services console from Administrative tools to stop the service and then set the startup value of the service to Disabled.

Once you do this you should be able to boot your computer, log on to Vista, and start working immediately instead of having to wait several minutes (or longer) for your system to become responsive. If you don't disable SuperFetch, chances are your disk will thrash and CPU usage hit the roof for several minutes after rebooting and logging on.

Disabling SuperFetch will also enable Vista to go into sleep mode more quickly and to resume from sleep faster as well.

About Mitch Tulloch

Mitch Tulloch was lead author for the Windows Vista Resource Kit from Microsoft Press, which is the book for IT pros who want to deploy, maintain and support Windows Vista in mid- and large-sized network environments. Mitch was also the author of Introducing Windows Server 2008 and technical project lead for the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit, both books also from Microsoft Press. For more information on these and other books by Mitch, see www.mtit.com .