Vista Re-install

Arge · 13 Jun 2008 at 19:20

Having had vista installed for around 8 months now and a lack of genral file maintenance (my bad!) I want to carry out a Fresh install on a new HDD I am about to purchase to speed things back up again.

As vista has been around a while now, was just wondering if anyone had any advice on ANYTHING i can do to speed up vista like not installing certian things that rarely get used, or installing things, hotfixes etc that improve things. The computer is mainly used for gaming if that means anything at all.

Thanks

Beans on toast Dave · 13 Jun 2008 at 19:21

vlite and slipstream with sp1

paradigm · 13 Jun 2008 at 19:23

Yeah, install from a USB flash drive, or better, a HDD. Miles quicker than off the DVD

Arge · 13 Jun 2008 at 19:55

challengedavid said:
vlite and slipstream with sp1

Can anyone elaborate on this ?

Also, how do i go about installing from a USB flash drive, or HDD when I have a DVD to start with ?

Beans on toast Dave · 13 Jun 2008 at 19:58

http://www.vlite.net/

its a program that intrigrates your vista disk with sp1 and you can tweek the install, so you get a custom vista install disk

mick4545 · 14 Jun 2008 at 17:17

Once you have Vista set up exactly as you like it, activate, then make a backup. This saves having to phone Microsoft in the future when you've used up the allotted activations.

Its not a problem activating again after the set amount of times, just a PITA.