This document only refers to optimization of Vista Machine for faster development only intended for the ones who are doing development on C#, ASP.NET and Optional VC++, no VB.NET.

Installation of Limited Visual Studio 2008

We probably dont need Compact Frameworks and VB.NET and other tools, unnecessary installing them doesnt waste much of Hard disk space but what happens that your registry grows too big as you install more number of items. Registry is very costly database, and its accessed very regularly, more items in registry, slower and slower the PC. So here is list of items you should install.

Visual Studio Items

Disable High End Graphics, Faster Performance

Disable High End Graphics

Disable System Restore Points

Now, System Restore Points are good, but usually on development machine, they run very slow, and they never do any good if system crashes, the restore time is as big as and as problematic as to reinstall OS.

Disable System Restore Points

Increase Paging Size

Increase it as much as you can in different drive but the acceptable range is 2GB to 4GB only.

Increase Paging Size

Remove Unnecessary Vista Items as shown below

Remove Unnecessary Programs and Features

Setup Taskbar and Start Menu

Taskbar and Startmenu Properties

Expand Items for Quicker Use

Expand Control Panel

Expand Documents

Expand Admin Tools