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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 computers operating system. The last access update timestamp exists in your system for updating reporting services in the background of Windows Vista. For those of you who never [...]

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. The 8.3 naming convention was engineered for older DOS based systems as a 8.3 filename system that included only 8 characters. This system has been dropped for [...]

Today’s video will show you how to disable many of the visual effects that are unnecessary in Windows Vista.  Most videos will show you this technique without pointing out how you can do it and still retain alot of the nice effects included with Windows Vista.  There are a couple of effects you can keep [...]

Today’s video goes over a utility that comes packaged with Windows Vista called Windows Defender.  Windows Defender is designed to run in the background periodically and scan for known malicious software such as spyware.  Well, if you have been following this series, you’ve already installed a piece of software that will do that for you [...]

Today’s video will show you how to disable the automatic update installation and enable manual mode so you can manually install updates. Automatic updates can chew up quite a bit of memory in the background of the computer while installing updates, not to mention use up alot of processing power. To remedy this, [...]