Karen has noticed that both Softonic and Spanish Speaking Guy are no longer hosting this app. I have therefore uploaded to this site, so you will now have to download it from here – Thanks Karen!

I have been using this application for a few days now and it has noticeably reduced Firefox’s memory usage – even when I have 20 tabs open with various media running!

Once you have downloaded this program, all you have to do is run the EXE file and it will add an icon to your task tray. I have added a shortcut of the EXE file to my Startup folder but I think there is an option to have it load when Windows starts.

Anyway, hope this helps you guys out!

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1. Click on Start button
2. Click on Run
3. Type regedit, in RegEdit use the search function to find the term FormSuggest
4. Double click on Use FormSuggest
5. Change value from no to yes (on some computers the value may appear as a DWORD value. If this is the case for you, change the value from 0 to 1)
6. You may need to restart computer for changes to take affect.

Here is a screenshot from my computer:

Let me know if this fixes IE7 on your computer!

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The first time it happened to me was when I installed Nero 7 Essentials onto a new Vista computer and it asked if I wanted to update to DirectX 9.0c … “ummm, excuse me? Doesn’t Vista come installed with DirectX 10?” Yes. But it appears that DirectX10 and DirectX9 are more like cousins rather than brother or sister.

Some games such as FEAR, Oblivion, Battlefield 2 (BF2) and Battlefield 2142 (BF2142); and some applications like Nero 7 and 3DMark06 will not install on Microsoft Vista unless you first install DirectX9.0c updates.

Don’t worry, this won’t overwrite any of your DirectX 10 files. Trust me (or don’t and back everything up first). The Direct X 9 updates appear only to add a few DLL files which are required by the above programs.

You can get the update from Microsoft here:

• DirectX9.0c update from Microsoft Website

Let me know if this helps with any other games or applications. I am interested in building up a list of programs that require this update to work.

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• Tip #1 – Is it your software firewall? I dont suggest uninstalling this straight away but perhaps you could just experiment by disabling your Norton, McAfee, AVG or whatevr you use for 15 mins or so. You should also check that Windows Firewall isn’t running at the same time as your software firewall. If you have just purchased a new Dell with McAfee installed you may find this post by Ian Lee interesting.
• Tip #2 – Turn off Remote Differential Compression. To do this:
  1. Click on Start
  2. Click on Programs
  3. Select Programs and Features
  4. On the left side pane select Turn Windows features on or off
  5. Uncheck Remote Differential Compression from the list.

• Tip #3 – Turn off Windows Meeting Space. You can also find the option to turn off this feature under Turn Windows features on or off. All you need to do is uncheck it.

• Tip #4 – Disable Auto-Tuning. Some people have reported that by turning of this feature there network transfer rate has improved.
  1. Click on Start
  2. Click on Programs
  3. Click on Accessories
  4. Click on Command Prompt
  5. Type netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
  6. Restart computer and cross your fingers

  If this doesn’t work for you you can change these settings back by typing netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal in the Command Prompt.

• Tip #5 – There are also a couple of Microsoft Updates for Windows Vista which may make an improvement. Here they are, Good Luck!
  • An update is available that improves the performance and reliability of Windows Vista
  • The copy process may stop responding when you try to copy files from a server on a network to a Windows Vista-based computer
    

If anybody has any other tips for improving slow shared network file transfer on Windows Vista computers then please let me know either by email, the contact form on this website or by posting a comment below.

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To install your Shared Printer on your Vista computer do the following:

1. Go to Control Panel
2. Double click on Printer
3. Click on Add Printer
4. Select Add a Local Printer
5. Click on Create a new port
6. Select Local Port from drop down list (this is the default setting … don’t change it)
7. Click Next
8. A box will appear asking you to create a port name. Type in \\computername\printername where “computername” is the name of the computer that has the printer physically installed, and “printername” is the sharing name you assigned to the printer. Eg. My computer name was Office, and the printer sharing name was hpprinter, so I typed \\Office\hpprinter
9. Press OK and follow prompts to select your printers driver from list.
10. Wait for install to complete and print a test page.

Hopefully you can now print to your shared printers from your nice shiny new Vista computer

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