{"id":124,"date":"2008-07-28T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T07:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2008-07-13T10:10:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T17:10:19","slug":"making-vista-faster-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Making Vista Faster, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two tricks you can pull to make Windows Vista faster. No, not fast enough that you&#8217;ll no longer be angry with how long it takes Vista to do some things. But at least you can make Vista run faster than it&#8217;s running now.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe first trick is to have Vista fully exploit your multi-core Pentium processor.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a typical Vista PC, it&#8217;s probably running on a dual-core or quad core CPU. You might even have multiple CPUs in your PC. Fine. Take advantage of that extra power by following these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Press Win+R to summon the Run dialog box.<\/li>\n<li>Type <strong>msconfig<\/strong> and press the Enter key.<\/li>\n<li>Deal with the UAC; click Continue.<\/li>\n<li>In the System Configuration window, click the Boot tab.<\/li>\n<li>Click the Advanced Options button.<\/li>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/bootoptions.png\" alt=\"Boot Options dialog box\" title=\"bootoptions\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-125\" \/><\/p>\n<li>In the BOOT Advanced Options dialog box (above), place a check mark by Number of processors.<\/li>\n<li>From the menu button choose the maximum number provided. That&#8217;s the number of processors available in your PC.<\/li>\n<li>Click OK, then close the other windows and such.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The change won&#8217;t take affect until you restart your computer. After doing so, Vista will begin using all the processing power in your PC. You may actually notice a slight improvement in performance.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday&#8217;s post I&#8217;ll divulge the second thing you can do to improve Vista&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two tricks you can pull to make Windows Vista faster. No, not fast enough that you&#8217;ll no longer be angry with how long it takes Vista to do some things. But at least you can make Vista run faster than it&#8217;s running now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}