Irrespective of the fact whether we upgraded to vista from XP or straightaway got Windows vista pre-installed, a lot can be done to perfectly optimize windows vista. Optimization of Windows Vista is similar to optimizing Windows XP in many ways. Prior to doing it, we must construct a system restore point.

We need to go to the start menu and look for ?system restore?. After clicking on the ?system restore?, we are directed to the user account control. We need to click on the ?continue? button which automatically directs us to the command ?open system protection?. We further need to select the local hard drive option and type in a name for the restore point.

Vista optimizer is considered a perfect optimizer at large because it practices most precise patterns of optimization. Here is how it travels along the optimization path.

It restricts number of start up programs: Startup programs invariably utilize RAM or CPU cycles. Inhibiting those, leads to a lot of free memory. Windows Vista System Configuration utility helps ideally in rooting out the start-up programs. We just need to type ?misconfig? and apply, once we reach the right t set of panels.

Removing junk files: A vast number of temporary files, temporary internet files, download files and log files occupy vast space. Cleaning the junk removes pressure on the disc. Vista optimizer uses a disk cleaning utility which aims at disallowing access to junk files after being wiped out.

Defrag the hard disc: The perfect optimizer asks for drive defragmentation., For the purpose, we need to go to the start menu; All programs.> accessories> system tools> disk fragmentor. It must be noted that the entire process of defragmentation might take up as much as few hours. Impatient handling might cause further backfire.

Abstain from visual dynamics: Vista brings stunning special effects to our machine. These are great to visualize but at the same time washes off a lot of usable resource space. Transparent windows, animation, sliding menus, fading, special icons are few of the eye-candies that Vista has to offer. We can choose to keep a few and do away with the rest.

Shove off the sidebar: Sidebar helps in installing quite a few gadgets on our Microsoft explorer. Clock or RSS gadgets are a couple of examples. We can do away with the sidebar for greater resources.

Optimize the size of paging file: Windows Vista uses a physical memory. This is RAM. It also uses a virtual memory. This is the paging file. Paging file enable Vista to alter ROM into RAM. RAM works in a far expeditious way than virtual memory. Vista sets the size of paging file in order to gain more virtual memory.

Vista Optimizer can truly be called a perfect optimizer and many of us would vouch for this.