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<blockquote data-quote="Lotsofjazz" data-source="post: 347021" data-attributes="member: 64243">I turned off:Windows indexing service, as this reduces harddrive activity enormouslyAll services related to Windows Media center, to prevent this from starting up when pressing the green buttonWindows Defender, as I have a better application for that (Mcafee)That's all I did tweaking Vista, everything else is default.I kept the sidebar because it has a nice indicator for CPU activity and Memory usage, but you can turn that off.One thing you NEED is keeping Vista Aero (the glassy standard Vista look) as it seems to do some thing essential to make certain video codecs work properly. Don't ask me why. To make the MCE remote work properly with Mediaportal I installed a plugin called MPtray, this will make sure Mediaportal starts when you press the green button (was also needed in XP)Lots</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lotsofjazz, post: 347021, member: 64243"] I turned off: Windows indexing service, as this reduces harddrive activity enormously All services related to Windows Media center, to prevent this from starting up when pressing the green button Windows Defender, as I have a better application for that (Mcafee) That's all I did tweaking Vista, everything else is default. I kept the sidebar because it has a nice indicator for CPU activity and Memory usage, but you can turn that off. One thing you NEED is keeping Vista Aero (the glassy standard Vista look) as it seems to do some thing essential to make certain video codecs work properly. Don't ask me why. To make the MCE remote work properly with Mediaportal I installed a plugin called MPtray, this will make sure Mediaportal starts when you press the green button (was also needed in XP) Lots [/QUOTE]

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