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Smart Defrag has been out for quite awhile now and many people do not even know it exists. For those of you who do not know what Defragmentation Software is – it reorganizes “fragmented” files that are on your hard drive. Fragmentation occurs when your hard drive stores a larger file into multiple [...]

This video will show you how to create a registry key in your registry that will disable a non essential background process running in your computer’s operating system. Windows Vista, like the other operating systems, always polls your computer’s hard drive to check the amount of disk space that is left on it. [...]

Today’s Faster vista video shows you how to adjust the search index indexing service to a secondary hard drive.  The reason this is helpful is because your current hard drive utilizes overhead in order to consistently index the files on your system for the search indexing system.  This is a very straight forward and easy [...]

Today’s video will walk you through shifting the virtual memory paging file to a secondary hard drive. This is a great speedup tip for those of you who are running a secondary hard drive on your computer because it will allow your operating system to reference the second hard drive instead of the primary [...]

Today’s video is a continuation of yesterdays. Yesterday we disabled the automatic defragmentation software that runs in the background of Windows Vista daily. Today, we will replace the disk defragmentation software with a freeware alternative known as smart defrag. The Smart Defrag software does a much better job of defragmenting a hard [...]