Vista is supposed to be new and fast. Sometimes though, it can seem a bit sluggish in my opinion. There are a few simple things that can be done to perk up and boost Vista. This could be as simple too many programs and not enough resources.

Vista is a resource hog. Vista Aero in particular eats of a ton of resources. Aero is a group of features with Vista, such as visual effects, including helpful animations, transparent glass menu bars, and live thumbnail previews of open programs.

Aero is setup as the default theme for Vista. Disabling it frees up allot of resources and you should notice a difference in the system after you disable it. You will still have the Vista look, but not the resource hogging effects.

One thing that you will not have will be the 3-D flip option for the desktop, so if you can live without that go ahead and disable Aero to bring your system back up to speed. If you like the 3-D flip option then leave it as is to continue as you were.