Unhelpful Windows tweaks
A recent article at a well-known computer site that claims to give 12 ways to speed up Vista has been mentioned in numerous blogs. When I first saw a link to the article, I took a look and saw nothing useful. However, the Web echo-chamber has been reverberating with references to this article. As I wrote in another context last month:
The Internet is full of information, a lot of it wrong. This applies to the myriad of suggested tips that you find on how to make Windows run better.
In his blog the PC Doctor Adrian Kingsley-Hughes analyzes this latest group of suggestions for tweaks and says;
I’ve just finished reading an article on Computerworld called “12 unnecessary Vista features you can disable right now” which claims that you can “reclaim your PC’s performance by turning off a dozen wasteful features.” Sorry folks, but more than 90% of this article is bunk.
He gives this good advice:
Here’s a tip. Next time you come across an article promising performance gains, look for any data presented by the author to back it up, even if they just tell you how much RAM they gained on their system, or how much their 3DMark went up by. If you see little or no metrics, that points to a regurgitated article written by someone who either hasn’t tried out the tips themselves and is taking everything on face value, or hasn’t bothered testing out the claims to see just how much performance gains their achieved.
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