Performance Boosting of Vista - 10 simple things to do

1. Upgrade your machine's RAM as Vista is memory hungry.

2. Use a USB or Flash Drive to provide for extra memory and fool Vista :) it works

3. Place a good Video Card - If RAM does not help replace this.

4. Remove extra startup programs that vendor might have added.

5. Get off Visual Enhancements - all the flashy things

6. Adjust indexing options

7. Clean up and defrag the disk

8. Boost performance by setting your power settings to the High Performance option.

9. Turn Off Slide bar - The sidebar is a cool feature of Vista, but if you don’t use its applets, you can save some resources

10. If all else fails, turn off Aero

--Hope it helps incase you have a similar problem................