windows vista help!! 10 points for good answer!!?

October 1, 2009

i have windows vista ultimate adn wehn i firsted installed it i did alot of tweaking to make it very fast, and it was. the shutdown, startup and running was really good. but it has been 2 weeks now that the startup has really slowed down. and this is the part where it is really slower that before:

http://www.techmixer.com/pic/2007/04/vista-default-boot-screen.jpg

i think this happened after i installed a game, but i uninstalled it again and it hasnt changed the speed of the startup, its still slow.

BTW I ALWAYS PERFORM DISK DEFRAGMENTER, REGISTRY DEFRAGMENTER, DISK CLEANER, REGISTRY CLEANER, AND VIRUS SCANNING. I HAVE ALSO DISABLED EVERYTHING FROM "MSCONFIG" EXCEPT FOR MY INTERNET SECURITY.

the shut down and running is still good, but its only the startup so why has my pc slowed down?? please help!!
oh yeah and i have also disabled many services that i dont need.

System Restore point/registry and game's trial time question?

September 17, 2009

Out of idle curiosity, I’ve been playing around with these "60 minute trial version" games you can download.

I set a System Restore Point, saved the registry (File –> export…) and then installed the game. Played it for 60 minutes, let it tell me the time was up, uninstalled it, then restored back to the system restore point.

Installed the game again – it still knows its trial time is up 🙂

how can i fix my lag on age of empires 3?

July 21, 2009

i wasnt lagging a while ago but now its every game bad lag. its always me. i did registry cleaner and antivirus too. i did malware scans and everything is good with those. but config wise, what changes can i make to optimize it.?

In Windows 2000, will the backup program restore the registry?

July 15, 2009

I made a full system backup the other day and want to know if I could restore the whole thing if the fresh reinstall I’m planning doesn’t work out and I want to go back to how it was.

Thanks!
Thanks P. I had also made a registry export but had forgotten that regedit won’t handle some entry types that regedt32 will.

I’ll export the whole thing and also each user’s settings separately.

I’m A+ certified from way back – started doing support in the DOS/Win3.0 days – but I’ve never had occasion to restore or reinstall a Windows system from scratch. I’ve always been able to keep them running clean long enough to make a new low-end system the better option. Been out of the game as a pro for a few years too.

Thanks again!
I’m going to keep this Q open in case anyone else has some tips too.

How can I speed up my computer game?

July 2, 2009

When i first played this game in my computer it was really fast now it is slow anyway i can speed it up. i tried to delete all my saved games cuz i thought that might be cuzing it but is there a way that i can speed my computer or the game.if it is the computer plz help. i tried disk cleanup it wont work plz help.