Start Applications Faster in Vista

An average driver spent almost 5o hrs an year in traffic jams but did anybody notice how many hrs do we spend waiting for our applications to start???

Waiting for an application to start could be pretty boring sometimes. Large applications often takes eternity to start before they are ready to use, even small applications isn’t as fast as one would like (Even in a fast PC).

Windows has a lot to do when it loads a application. It has to load the program file data off your HDD. It also has to make room in your system memory (RAM) for the applications. Windows Virtual memory & Cache plays a vital role in here.

And the application itself read through all your fonts (the lesser the better) , plug-ins DLLs, etc, and allocates its own sector to your HDD for storing temporary files.

But there are some more processes behind this that isn’t strictly necessary all the time. Vista includes an “Application Compatibility” procedure that checks each n every program against the database of known issues & warns you if there is a potential problem. This procedure takes resources & time and really not that useful in all circumstances unless you are installing some out dated application that is not designed for Vista.

Once you have installed all the application that you would be using on a daily basis you really don’t need this Application compatibility system anymore. So you can turn it off & you will save 1 extra task your system performs before starting each n every application.

• Open the Start Menu
• Type “gpedit.msc” in Search Box & press Enter (This will start Group Policy Object Editor)
• Expand the branches to Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Component > Application Compatibility.
• Open the section named as “Turn Off Program Compatibility Engine” located in Application Compatibility section to configure them,
• Set this to “Enabled” to turn it off