Windows Vista is only a couple of years old, and having over $10 billion worth of investment, Microsoft did a lot to make sure that this latest version of Windows is better structured and more stable than ever before. That's all well and good but it doesn't help the people who are unfortunate enough to have a slow computer thanks to a corrupt or damaged registry.

If your computer is running slow or if you are experiencing a lot of errors with your computer system, then the problem could likely be to do with the registry. The long term Achilles heal of Windows is actually the central database it relies on to store your settings and options. Everything from your desktop wallpaper to your Internet favorites are stored inside this database and it's accessed every single time you use your PC (even now).

The problems arise when the files in this database start to get corrupted or damaged. Because Windows is constantly moving and updating these files, the chances for it to accidentally ruin some are absolutely great and some computers have have 1,000's of broken registry files all clogging up the system. This is bad because Windows doesn't actually know how to fix the problems itself so they either make your system a lot slower and start bringing up a bombardment of errors.

In order to fix this, you need to fix the corrupt registry files. This is no mean feat as there are literally 10,000's of files in the registry and if you ruin one by accident, it could spell DISASTER for your PC. So in order to be sure that you're cleaning your registry properly, you can use a program known as a "registry cleaner" to fix the broken and lost files for you.

Author:-James Henry Johnson

Windows Vista comes with several new enhancements, however for these added features you have to pay the price of slow processing speed for even the fastest of computers. The main reason is the visual upgrades, which though looks good can drastically reduce the performance of your system.

If your system can not take the load of Window Vista and you still want to use it for considerable performance, you may tweak Windows Vista for certain optimizations. For example; when you minimize, maximize or close any windows/applications, the animation speed to perform these tasks is a default setting which is not under the control of the user.

Never the less, you can make this transition run slower while holding the SHIFT key button; after performing the following registry hack as shown below:

1. Click on the Start button and type regedit in the Start Search field, then press enter.

2. If User Account Control prompts you for consent, click on Continue.

3. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM

4. In the right hand pane, right click on an empty space and from the context menu that appears choose “New > DWORD (32-bit) Value”.

5. Give the new DWORD (32-bit) Value a name of AnimationsShiftKey.

6. Double click on the “AnimationsShiftKey” value and give it a value of 1.

7. Close the Registry Editor and log off of Windows and log back in for this to take effect.

If you have successfully edited the registry, you will notice that the animation speed has become slower when compared to previous without holding the SHIFT key. Enjoy!