Our readers are no doubt a group of hardcore tech addicts who always strive to get the most out of the mobile gear they use. This applies especially to netbooks and UMPCs, as those devices often have less powerful engines under the hood and it can be a chore to get the best performance out of them. We first covered Vispa three years ago, but the program since has evolved into a full-featured way to tweak Windows systems for maximum impact.
Vispa was written to tweak Microsoft Windows Vista, but recently got the ability to handle Windows 7. It provides a simple list interface where just about every aspect of the operating system can be tweaked. For this reason alone you need to be very careful how you change the environment, which means backing up before using Vispa.
You don’t want to turn things off if you don’t know what they do. Only change the things you are certain you can do so safely. If you want to change other things then search the web for a given function to make sure you can live with the change.
Windows runs a lot of services in the background, and while many of them perform vital functions the OS needs to do its job, not all of them are needed by everyone all the time. Turning off unneeded services can go a long way to improving system performance. Vispa handles that easily, allowing you to turn off (or back on) a lot of these services.
You can download Vispa for no charge, and I strongly recommend you create a system restore point, just in case. You have been warned. Vispa will tweak Windows on any system, not just netbooks. :) Thanks to Download Squad for reminding me about Vispa.
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