After buying a new machine at the end of October last year, I started playing the "legendary" Vista. I was pleasantly surprised at the beginning, "WOW", but I was depressed, annoyed, and even gave up Vista and hated Vista. But now it is getting deeper, adapting to Vista, like Vista, and now there is a little LOVE Vista... In the months of using Vista, I have summarized some useful experiences for comrades who are new to Vista. Of course, don’t talk about it. Share on. If you have a better idea, please leave a message. 1. Personally feel that it is best to install the disk, install from the hard disk without CD-ROM installation, it is obvious that in the "copy file" step, the CD brush is completed, the hard disk is slower. This is different from the Ghost of the XP era (Vista one-click restore), the hard drive is faster (of course, if your CD-ROM and CD-ROM are not working, then there is no way). And the installation of the disk has more options, such as formatting the system disk. But if you can't install it, it's only installed from the hard drive. 2. The system's own NIC driver can identify the NIC, but it is recommended to use the motherboard CD to update the NIC driver. It is best to go to the official website of the motherboard to see if there is a new Vista driver. When I installed the machine, I found that the NIC driver easily caused a blue screen (NDIS.SYS blue screen), especially when using some P2P software (such as eMule VeryCD, BT download BitComet). 3. Sometimes the driver that comes with Vista can install the graphics card and sound card driver. Same as above, it is recommended to manually reinstall the driver. 4. Find that the desktop is on a recycle bin, and there are no other icons. In this case, you should select it in the blank space on the desktop - right click - personalization - in the upper left corner "Change desktop icon". 5. Activation: Brand machine users (pre-installed HOME BASIC version) can be directly upgraded to the U version. The simple method is to download a U version of its own brand. After the disk is installed, it is directly genuine. Or install the MSDN version (including 5 versions), and then use the method of importing the certificate: Click the "Start" menu, select "All Programs" > "Accessories", right-click "Command Prompt", select "Administrator" Run as identity, confirm the pop-up security prompt. Execute the command at the command prompt: slmgr.vbs -ilc <certificate path>oemcert.xrm-ms (Example: slmgr.vbs -ilc c:\\delloem\\dell.xrm-ms) Check to see if Vista is active. If BiOS is correct, it should be activated. Certificates can go online to search, a lot. Ordinary non-OEM users can modify the BIOS activation, but it is recommended that BiOS will not be activated with SOFTMOD4.8 soft, no risk. OEM users are best not to use that software to activate, of course, the premise is that your machine can run. I found that the HomeBasic version has fewer features (no 3D windows, Media Center, etc.) and is suitable for users whose hardware conditions are not very good.
6. Compatibility software: The player feels better with the storm video, listening to the song with TTPlayer (the system comes with Media Player 11 more memory), decompression software, these need not talk about. The input method feels like using Sogou Pinyin! The best five strokes have loopholes under Vista. Vista comes with IE7.0, IE7 must-have plug-in IE7Pro remember to install Flash playback control for the first time online (just find a website that needs to play Flash, such as QQ show, IE will prompt you to install the control). Almost all of the commonly used software is compatible with VISTA, and it is not as alarmist as the Internet says. And there are a lot of websites on the Internet that provide Vista compatible software downloads, and pay attention to whether the incompatible software is updated. 7. Anti-virus software: Kaspersky will install a network protocol developed by Kabbah (KASPersky Internet Security Suite) by default in Vista (you will know it at a glance), you can see it in the local connection properties. It is recommended to uninstall it. It is said that the protocol conflicts with the P2P software and will cause a blue screen. If you use Kabbah, it is recommended to use 7.0, in fact, 6.0 is more memory. Of course, Norton (Norton Antivirus 2008) and NOD32 (NOD32 AntiVirus) are also good. Do not install the above if the memory is small. Choose other, such as domestically made soft, such as Rising and Kingsoft Internet Security (Vista installed essential software Daquan). 8. It is recommended to turn off the system hibernation, which can save you the memory size! Close mode: Enter --- "CMD" in the start menu - right click (remember to be right!!) - "Run as administrator" - enter in the CMD - "powercfg -h off" (quotation marks Inside the content, there is a space between powercfg and -h...)--- Then press Enter, it will be closed. 9. Beautification: VISTA optimization master this software provides a lot of landscaping features, everyone to ponder it. Vista's Fantasy Desktop recommends a small memory user. 10. Turn on the glass effect (provided that the Home version, Professional version, commercial version or Ultimate version and your graphics card supports AERO effects): Right-click on the desktop---Personalization---Select "Windows AERO" in color and appearance, you can ! Some integrated graphics can also open AERO effects, such as my ATI X1250. And very smooth, of course, you have to have more than 2G of memory.
11. System Restore: This feature is recommended to be retained (if you have enough hard disk space), sometimes system restore is very useful. 12. Theme crack: VISTA optimization master has the theme crack function, but the current is only valid for VISTA, don't use it on VISTA SP1, otherwise the system crashes~ There is a method to crack the theme of SP1 on the Internet, not to mention here (Vista Home Note: The system crash has been solved in the new version of Vista Optimizer). 13. Make good use of commands such as "SYSTEMINFO", "SFC", "MSCONFIG". 14. If there is a camera, please be careful not to plug it in first. You should install the driver CD to install the driver first. After restarting, you can automatically install the driver after connecting the camera. I did that, maybe the camera method would be different. Also, it is best to go to the camera official website to see if there is no driver update (for Vista). 15. Regarding cracking the maximum number of TCP/IP links, I generally don't modify it. My 2M bandwidth is the same before and after the crack. Note that SP1 users can not use the VISTA optimization master to crack the TCP/IP number. Otherwise, "...TCP/IP.SYS" will appear after booting. I would like to congratulate you. (Vista House Remarks: System crash has long been in Vista optimization master new version Solved in the middle)!
16. Recommend the taskbar properties in the start menu remember to "storage and display ... file list" is not checked, huh, why not need to say. In the start menu customization, you can set the items you want to display as you like. These are all using XP. 17. Transfer virtual memory to a non-system disk. This method has a tutorial online, Baidu has a lot of search... 18. It is not recommended to turn off UAC, although it is very annoying, but VISTA is like that, I don't feel it when I get used to it, it also helps system security. If you are not used to it, turn it off in the control panel or Vista optimization master. 19. Upgrade Vista SP1. Although there was news before the release of SP1 that SP1 did not improve much, and this news made many comrades standing on the XP front launched a lot of comparison between XP SP3 and Vista SP1. No matter what the situation is, both are worthy of our expectation. We can't kill it with a stick, right? And SP1's stability, compatibility, system operating efficiency, etc. are all improved. The online UPDATE method for upgrading SP1 is recommended for the system to update automatically. 20. Do you need to upgrade from XP to Vista: On this issue, everyone is holding the word, I think it depends on the actual situation. If you bought a new machine and the hardware configuration is good enough to install Vista, choose Vista. After all, this is a trend. If your hardware is hard, and the interface effect is not so careful, then stick to the practical Xp system, at least in the next year or two, I think XP will not die.