Windows Vista/Seven - Speed Secrets (# 11) : Microsoft Doesn’t Want You To Know!

Windows Vista/Seven
Windows Vista is a rather heavy operating system with many neat
features, but unfortunately they all come at a price. As a brand new
operating system, it requires a pretty fast system to run well, if
not optimized.
Before you run out and buy a new computer just so you can run your
base operating system, check out these these simple ways to
speed-up Windows Vista and lighten the load.

Windows Vista/Seven | Speed Secret #1: Turn-Off User Account Control (UAC) 

Now, there’s a lot of talk about the new User Account Control
policy in Vista, and all I can say is that it annoys the heck out of 99%
of users and slows down normal computer usage. To turn it off,
the easiest way is to:

1. Click the Start (Windows) button
2.  Select the Control Panel
3.  Type in ‘UAC‘ into the search bar
4.  It’ll bring up a search result of ‘Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off’
5.  Just follow the prompts from there

Much better, eh? You might say ‘but what’s that got to do with
speed?’ It prompts you at least a couple times an hour and then
takes several seconds to figure itself out. Without these annoying
prompts, your productivity goes up, so therefore it’s a speed
enhancer.