Microsoft now provides an official guide to Fine tune and speed up your Windows Vista System. The guide is a 14 page PDF or XPS which you can download for free from microsoft website.

Though the guide covers common tweaks that most of the experienced users already know, yet it is quite useful for a new inexperienced user who wants to easily fine tune Windows vista system.

The guide covers following areas to speed up performance:

• Making configuration changes that help a computer feel more responsive when you use it.
• Using hardware to boost the actual physical speed of a computer.
• Making configuration changes that help a computer to start faster.
• Making the computer more reliable may help increase performance.
• Monitoring performance occasionally so that you can stop problems before they get too big.

[via: gHacks]