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Extremetech has a nice article on how to speed up Windows Vista by getting rid of stuff you don’t need and some other nifty tips. Check it out.

Performance is probably the most coveted intangible when it comes to PCs, and tweaking, to the performance hungry, is considered more of a necessity than an option. Gearheads go to great lengths to get quicker system response times, faster-running games, and shorter PC bootup and shutdown times.

One way is to overclock the heck out of the poor components (and then, for bragging rights, to log on to a message board and claim a stable CPU frequency of about 300MHz faster than what's actually possible). Another way is to tweak out the operating system itself.

Great step by step tutorial on how to install XP on a machine that came with Windows Vista pre-installed. I will definitely be doing this on the laptop I just bought with pre-installed Vista.

The first time you boot up Windows Vista, you notice the differences between it and XP. The visual differences, that is. But there is a lot more under the hood that is different as well. Ars Technica has a detailed review of the new features in Vista here.