Tweak Windows Startup Items To Improve Performance

The Windows Vista for Beginners tutorial site walks through tweaking your startup items to improve performance—a common practice, but this time with a helpful twist. Most of the techniques are nothing new to Lifehacker readers (see Gina’s complete guide to speeding up your PC’s startup), ranging from trimming startup applications to using Startup Delayer to keep everything from starting at once, but this guide goes the extra mile, attempting to answer the often unaddressed question: What should I disable? The post is geared towards the less tech-savvy, but could be helpful for anybody as a resource to share with others that don’t have the know-how but are tired of slow startup speeds.