Ok so I've been using XP 32bit for ages... I finally decided to upgrade my memory past my 3GB limit to 6GB. Installed Vista x64 last night which took most of the night. Btw using windows update with windows vista is the slowest f'ing thing I've ever done, even compared to XP which was no flash either.

So anyway, everything is all updated now and tonight I will be tweaking the performance some (since it is very much obviously lacking compared to XP). Plans as of right now:

Turn off all file indexing
disable services that I don't need running
Already moved my page file to a separate hard drive

Aero isn't on, what else can I do to increase the performance and decrease the resources used? One thing I noticed in Vista I didn't see in XP is when I go to my display properties it says my video card has 512MB of memory and access to 2GB of shared system memory. Is there a way to disable the shared system memory completely? I don't want my video card using any more than the 512MB it has access to.

Also, I plan on redoing all the WoW tweaks I had done before like symlinking my directories (although in XP I was using winbolic link and I know Vista can do it natively, I just have no idea how), and making the latency registry tweak, etc.

So, any advice on reducing vista resources and/or increasing performance would be great, thanks!