Many people think that Vista will never out run XP on a 512 MB computer. With some proper tuning, your Vista is absolutely faster than XP on a computer with the memory of 512 MB and above, just follow the 5 simple steps outline here.

Step #1 – Strip everything.

Bring your Vista on a diet plan, use vLite to generate a stripped down version of the original installer, you should lose as many things as possible, including driver and unwanted hardware support. If you can strip Vista until fit on one CD (600 MB or less), you are done!

Step #2 – Disable excessive services.

Do some study and disable all unwanted services, as many as possible . You should have stripped 1/3 of the services on the installer, now you have to disable another half and make Vista as tiny as possible.

Step #3 - Disable theme services and use classic menu.

You need classic interface to save your resources for application. Classical menu is very fast and smooth to use.

Step #4 – Use memory optimizer.

Vista will try to cache any application, you need memory optimizer to free the memory for application as much as possible. Memory optimizer can be obtained freely and easily, just types “memory optimizer” in any search engine, you should be able to download.

Step #5 – Use Process Tamer.

This tiny program will continuously monitor your programs, any program you are currently running, foreground or background, then set it to lower priority and free more resources for other application.

If you perform these 5 steps correctly, your Vista is definitely faster than XP on the same machine, try it today, and if you are not sure what to tune, get a copy of “Unleash Vista Power Advance Guide” before doing anything.