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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:

10 top tweaks for Windows Vista

10 top Vista tweaks, part 2

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