In Windows Vista, some settings are optimised for stability and compatibility rather than performance. It’s therefore possible to tailor these options to take advantage of your PC’s unique specification.

Ordinarily, though, this involves an expert’s touch, whether it’s editing the Registry or configuring another part of your system.

But TweakVI is a tool that brings together many of these hidden settings in a user-friendly package. It comes in free and paid-for versions, and offers hundreds of tweaks.

In this Workshop, we’ll look at the free version and highlight some great tweaks to try. Many require a PC restart, so do so once you’ve worked through the tutorial.

Here's how to optimise and customise Windows Vista