Whereas the structure behind Windows Vista has improved since the previous
operating system, the facility to tweak and optimise certain aspects of the OS
has yet to be made available to the general public. One reason is due to
Microsoft having to ship a vanilla install that will work across as many PCs as
possible. Drivers are generic and Vista will often perform the minimum basics to
make sure that it will boot and run on your system.
In other words, there are various system-based tweaking and optimisations
that you can perform to wrap Vista around your PC. Indeed, you should make sure
that you’re always using the latest drivers available for your hardware – if you
still use the drivers that shipped with the original DVD, these may have been
added to the install DVD only weeks after the original operating system shipped
to the public.
TweakVista is a Vista-specific tweaking and optimisation tool that will
enable you to perform various improvements so Vista works more effectively on
your machine. Tweak the way that startup applications launch on your computer,
optimise your memory, check your current resources to see if applications are
hogging your CPU and much more.
Note that this is a trial of the commercial version and is feature-limited.
Some of the benchmarking and system analysis tools are not available.