Windows Vista Tweaks

dablakmark8 said:
guys i love it,i love it.i successfully can boot windows xp from one drive and boot vista from another drive.
So at start up i have 2 choices,although vista business does have this feature at the os choosing,It is a bit sluggish so went searching the net for a long time till i came up with a tweak,this is not a tweak per say,but it will encourae many members here on this forum to install vista.It works perfect for me.

ok first you must have 2 hard drives
first hdd install vista,if everything works register it,but if you on xp upgrade to vista
tell vista to keep you xp windows on the drive as windows old..ok done
after everything is installed,look in computer on the vista system and put alll your data from the windows old that you have in the relevant places ok
next delete the windows old folder ok

now switch of pc and put other drive in as a slave on the ide 1 cable,now the set up is id1 vista drive master and clean drive slave on the ide slot
boot up ,let cd be firstboot(bios controlled)
have the xp cd in and say install on the clean drive(select the clean drive to install xp(make sure to format via xp the clean drive)
After xp installed check everything ok now reboot.

then you will see xp will boot all the time and there is no vista,dont worry just unplug the xp drive now and reboot,but put the vista cd in and say boot from cd.
Now vista cd will load,,follow instruction and you will see to repair vista,click repair vista windows,this will take 1 minute and vista will reboot,Now after reboot vista will work again.
switch off pc and insert the xp drive again.

Now reboot and vista will now have that menu that says early windows or vista,just enter the os choice and test xp boot properly,If it does then you in luck

reboot again and select vista and if this boot ok then you also in luck,cause now you have a genuine dual boot os system.

this is what i did exactly and if you do this you will have a dual boot xp and vista,that works 100%,unlike other sites and wiki,they dont work,It took me 4 hours to find this out and make work ,SO please no partitioning drives,it will just cause headaches.

thanks to antwan for giving insight into doing this...i love you man
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i dont get this?

i have a succesful dual boot system.

1 - install xp
2 - install vista on seperate partition.

done.

or am i missing something?
 
Best Dual Boot Solution

O well this is what I have done..

1) Get 2 hard drive no partition cr@p.. (Set one as master and the other as slave)
2) Plug one hard drive load WinXP or Vista
3) Unplug drive & plug in other drive.
4) Install Vista or WinXP (the other Windows you want)
5) Plug both hard drives back.
6) Now if you have a cool enough motherbaord like mine - it will give you
the option to press F8 to choose what drive to boot from :D
 
Speed up vista a bit by turning off the indexing option. START > CONTROL PANEL > (IN CLASSIC VIEW) INDEX OPTIONS
Here just take out / modify to have it not index anything.

I noticed that my hard was always been read, even when nothing was happening (idle state) Vista was not running all that smooth to my liking. Because vista has a live search feature it is always reading and indexing your files and mail etc. Turning this off impoved it greatly. :)
 
Keep User Account Control active but get rid of annoying popups in Vista
Enable UAC, reboot if required.

1. Start/Run and type secpol.msc (or type secpol.msc in search)
2. This will open the Vista Security Policy editor
3. In the Security Policy editor select:
Local Policies/Security Options
4. Now scroll down to the two following Security Options:
a) User Account Control: behaviour of the elevation prompt for admins
b) User Account Control: behaviour of the elevation prompt for standard users
5. For each of the above, select the desired option.
Selecting "Elevate without prompt" will get rid of the annoying pop-up boxes, and will also help software load faster.
6. Reboot Vista to make the policy work

;)
 
teraside said:
Keep User Account Control active but get rid of annoying popups in Vista
Enable UAC, reboot if required.

1. Start/Run and type secpol.msc (or type secpol.msc in search)
2. This will open the Vista Security Policy editor
3. In the Security Policy editor select:
Local Policies/Security Options
4. Now scroll down to the two following Security Options:
a) User Account Control: behaviour of the elevation prompt for admins
b) User Account Control: behaviour of the elevation prompt for standard users
5. For each of the above, select the desired option.
Selecting "Elevate without prompt" will get rid of the annoying pop-up boxes, and will also help software load faster.
6. Reboot Vista to make the policy work

;)
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Works like a charm :D
 
Last night I had a problem running a game (Tiger Woods 2005) It didn't run at all. I found a place to make Vista simulate XP SP2. But not 100% sure if this will work for everything .

Right click on the exe of the program/game and select properties.
Then select the compatibility tab.
There you will see a compatibility mode.
Check the box and select Xp sp2 .

It worked for me and is something else to try :) Thought I would share.
 
that never worked for me.I got a better fix to play anygame in vista
Install the game on a xp machine and copy the the game folder from the xp program files,and past it on the vista drive,then search the .exe of the game and play,Simple/better/faster.
 
dablakmark8 said:
that never worked for me.I got a better fix to play anygame in vista
Install the game on a xp machine and copy the the game folder from the xp program files,and past it on the vista drive,then search the .exe of the game and play,Simple/better/faster.
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And if you don't have a XP machine??
 
dablakmark8 said:
that never worked for me.I got a better fix to play anygame in vista
Install the game on a xp machine and copy the the game folder from the xp program files,and past it on the vista drive,then search the .exe of the game and play,Simple/better/faster.
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How can you possibly think that that is Simple? Better or Faster? :confused:

;)

edit: The "compatibility" command has always worked for me in Vista
 
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well do that if a game has problems,but lately with new vista nvidia drivers,I can play any game with no probs,But if there do arise a problem i do that fix which i posted,Its simple and easy,Total overdose never worked waht you were saying,but i did it my way and it worked perfect.
If all else fails try that solution for a quick fix.
 
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