As compared to XP, a lot offeaturesin Vista require a little more effort
before they can be accessed. For eg, if you want to change the screen
reso-lution, you need an extra mouse click on the 'Personalization' option.
Startdockprovides you with a user friendly tool called 'Tweak Vista' that can be
used by both novices and experts. Using this tool you can configure Vista
security in a few easy-to-understand steps. It provides four dif-ferent options
to configure your system for optimum Internet connectivity, depending on whether
it's a low-end or a high-end machine. Then there's a SMARTGuardutility that
automatically monitors, ana-lyzes and provides reports on the perform-ance of
your system. Unlike other tools, it automatically prompts you about system
enhancements to keep your system run-ning smoothly. Let's take a look at some of
the interesting tweaks that can be done.
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The 'Services' utility lets you optimize your system for playing games, running office applications. It even lets you optimize Vista to be used as a server |
Unlike Task Manager, this utility gives a very comprehensive view of resources used by applications, which includes the amount of RAM, CPU and other resources being used |
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Using the in-built Vista assessment utility, you can compare your system's performance with that of other systems using Tweak Vista on the network |
You can calculate the amount of power consumed by each component on your computer in a year. You even get detailed statistics for each processing core in your system |