3 Day Speed Up Vista Mini-Course

Day 2 - Set Auto Login and Turn Off User Account Control, Unleash The Power Plan and Hybrid Sleep Mode.

Step 4, Set Auto Login and Turn Off User Account Control

Auto login will save you 5 seconds and the work to keying in your password every time you boot up your computer, user account control will save your efforts to confirm every step during some program installation and better compatibility.

Set Auto Login
1. Press Windows key, type "netplwiz" and enter.
2. Uncheck "Users must enter user name...", then click Apply, OK button.
Disable User Account Control
1. Press Windows key, select Control Panel.
2. Select User Accounts and Family Safety.
3. Select User Accounts,
4. Select Turn User Account Control on or off.
5. Uncheck Use User Account Contrl (UAC) ..., click OK and you are done! Please note that by disabling UAC, you also post a security risk to your computer as XP does. I personally don't think is a big risk, but remember to install Anti Virus and Anti Spyware before doing this step.
Recommended Anti Virus And Anti Spyware
1. Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0 - Kaspersky  includes important anti-virus software functions such as real-time email, file and web scanning, Customer support is good here, with efficient telephone and email help.
2. Spyware Detector - Anti Spyware is very slow in nature, all good Anti spyware such as webroot spysweeper and counterspy are extremely slow. Spyware Detector not only the world fastest, but also the most complete spyware definition detector! Try and compare other Anti Spyware, you will agree with me.

Step 5, Unleash the Power Plan and Hybrid Sleep

Windows Vista comes with a smart power plan that prolong your notebook power lifetime, but if your battery is enough, and you require more performance than lifetime, you should turn it on, especially if you are using a desktop computer.

Another new feature from Vista is the hybrid sleep. Vista combined Sleep mode with Hibernate mode to offer you the ultimate computer shutdown and boot up. You can easily turn off your computer within 5 seconds and resume it within 5 seconds, and you don't have to worry about data loss, because if Vista detects power disconnected, it will switch to hibernate automatically. However, you should always save your work before turning off!

1. Press Windows key, select Control Panel.
2.Select System and Maintenance.
3. Select Power Options.
4. Select High Performance.
5. Select Choose what the power buttons do.
6. Select Don't require a password, for faster resume.   7. Assign Sleep to both buttons, this buttons represent the actual hardware buttons on your computer or keyboard. The power button is same function at the Windows menu.

You are done! every time you press the power button on the Windows menu or your computer, your system will go into sleep mode. Try it and you will be surprise how fast Windows can resume from power off.

You can also test the hibernate mode: Power down your system, then unplug the power cabel or turn off the power, after 10 seconds, re-plugin the power cabel and Power up your system, you will notice this time take longer to start, but your data and Windows session will resume! This is call the hybrid sleep mode, Welcome to Windows Vista!

Hope You Enjoy Today Course, See You Tomorrow!