Windows Vista Tweaking Windows Vista!

Hello all,
I have upgraded from Windows XP Professional to Windows Vista Ultimate. When I had Windows XP I did a few tweaks to it to increase the system performance by adjusting a few registry values in Hkey Currect User<Control Panel<Desktop. The values I adjusted were menushowdelay, I set that from 400 to 1. I adjusted waittokillapptimeout from 20000 to 2000. Lastly I adjusted Autoendtasks from 0 to 1. All 3 tweaks were very useful and increased performance on my computer. When I upgraded to Windows Vista I proceeded to do the same thing. I went to the same directory in the registry and I changed menushowdelay and waittokillapptimeout just fine. However in the Hkey current user<Control Panel<Desktop directory I couldn't find the Auto End Tasks value. Its seems to be absent in Windows Vista. I am wondering if I have to create a new registry key in that directory or if that key is located somewhere else in the registry. I have looked on many websites and have looked through some of the tweaks they have and there is no mention of the autoendtasks tweak. I would like to enable this tweak because sometimes I have programs that can freeze up and stop responding and this tweak will allow windows to do a force quit on the program without me having to open task manager and end the task that way. So if anyone knows any other useful tweaks or how to enable the autoendtasks tweak I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks for your help!

 

Hello Charles.
I appreciate the link but that was one of the first sites that I went to in hope of finding some very useful tweaks. I will try the tweaking utility thats on their site and see what features it has. I hope I can find that autoendtasks tweak somwhere in the registry.

 

Thanks for the link for the utility. It is very useful. I am happy that I found a good tweaking utility thats for Windows Vista. Thanks again visionof.