All In All Its Just Another Brick In The Wall!
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Hibernation
Windows Desktop Search
If UPS is not working; disabling Windows Search is recommended; to avoid any data loss/file-system corruption due to higher disk activity! http://4sysops.com/archives/how-to-disable-vista%E2%80%99s-desktop-search-indexing-windows-search/ explains how to do that.
Disabling/Enabling Service the geek’s way >runas /user:Administrator “cmd /f:on” (If UAC is enabled; which I think should be; /f:on gives you Unix like file completion; instead of TAB use CTRL+F) See tip 10 in the list below to do this in more efficient way >sc config wsearch start= disabled && net stop wsearch (wsearch is service name of Windows Search) >sc config wsearch start= auto && net start wsearch
Disabling/Enabling Service the geek’s way
See tip 10 in the list below to do this in more efficient way
If we use && between two commands; second command runs if first succeeded; and if we use only & the second command will run regardless first command was succeeded or not
Some more Vista Tips
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