Classic British Flight Sim

Hi,

I've just taken delivery of a very sexy Samsung laptop for my sister that's loaded with Vista. It has 2GB of RAM, proper Intel Duel core etc etc but I think it still needs a trim.

What tips does anyone recommend for optimising Vista? I've got as far as getting the switch off button back and turning window transparency off but that's it thus far.

Pop it into the microwave and burn it....BURN IT....mwahahaha *cough cough* :@

I have had nothing but headaches with Vista.....Don't get me wrong....its an ok OS but it sure is finicky.... :roll:

Tony

Here's my few tips:

1) IT IS NOT XP.....Get this into your head right now, then you'll be sorted!
2) Turn off UAC, get Avast! Anti-Virus and Spybot S&D (Both free)
3) Defrag ASAP, then do so monthly, at least.
4) Have a mess about with some of the visual options, turn off ones that you don't really need.
5) RTFM Solves everything

Well i say Christopher......Thats a bit sharp old bean....!

So burning it is not an option then...... :roll:

Have to agree that turning off the UAC is the first thing i did on re-install.....

It came with a manual....? :brick:

:doho:



Tony

I have to make it that sharp, otherwise no-one heeds the advice

Could you tell me more information about UAC?

User accounts?

User Account Control......stops un-authorised access to files.

Problem if you copy a lot of files between the Program Files or System folders and your users' space. (Comes up with a pop-up each and every time)

Ditto for installations, un-installations, running some programs, etc.

More on UAC here: http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/ua ... -faq-thing

Thanks for that, it was getting annoying. I'll turn it back on for my sister as she's not very computer literate.

Now I've just run a defrag but there no longer appears to be a visual or any indication of how much it has done/to go and whether or not it is actually finished. Just a stupid spinning icon.

I couldn't install messenger either, it just spent 20mins doing nothing then gave me an error.

What a crock of...

OK, defrag is like that, get Auslogics' version:
http://www.download.com/Auslogics-Disk- ... 67503.html


Messenger, I advise downloading the WLInstaller off the Live website, saving it to your desktop, then running it as administrator (Right click, choose from the context menu)