Fixing Windows Vista advice from Ed Bott
Posted by dvanarsd on June 8, 2008
[updated August 4, 2008]
Ed Bott at ZDNet believes that Vista with SP1 is now a good operating system once it’s configured correctly.
He has a series of articles on how he did just that:
Fixing Windows Vista, one machine at a time
Fixing Windows Vista, part 2: taming UAC
Fixing Windows Vista, part 3: top troubleshooting tools
Fixing Windows Vista, part 4: Get smart about services
Fixing Windows Vista, part 5: Faster, smarter search
He also has suggestions on tweaking Vista, and some of his ideas might help you: