[How To] A guide to fixing vista issues.

*dramatic half sorrowful voice* KajitiSouls, your laptop is crying out to you. It weeps as its forced to handle many tasks at once. The pain!!! The suffering!!!

Okay okay that's enough. But seriously, you're laptop is getting overworked when you play MS. A single core processor (or even a slow duo core processor) and 1 gig of ram can mean trouble for computers running vista. The fallback would be having a great graphics card. However, I looked at entire list of specs based off of the model number and it seems you're looking at a non-gamer's computer.

Let's fix that shall we? :3

First off let's get you some extra RAM, the nonpaying way :3

Hopefully you have an extra 4 gigs of hard disk space on your laptop you wont miss. One great solution to your lack of RAM is to allocate some harddisk space to act as RAM.


[SPOILER=Here's how we do it:]
1)Start Menu

2)Control Panel

3)Make sure you view the control panel in "Classic View" found on the left.

4)Performance Information & Tools

5)Where is says "Tasks" on the left. Locate and click on "Advanced Tools"

6)Click on "Adjust the appearance and performance of windows"

7)Click on the "Advanced" tab.

8)In the "Virtual Memory" section, click on "Change"

9)At the bottom of the pop up you'll see "Total paging file size for all drives" Take note of the number next to the word "Recommended". We'll use my number as an example: 1519mb.

10)Make sure that the top box is unchecked. "Automatically manage paging file..."

11)Below that, make sure that the option for "custom size" is the one filled in.

12)For "Initial size (MB)" Take your earlier recommended number and double it and type it in there. In my case, I typed in "3000" <- note I didn't put "mb" in there, just the number. For the "maximum size" option, triple your recommended number... "4500" is what I put in.

13)Please note that this amount is going to be removed from your current remaining harddisk space, so you'll be losing out on about 5 gigs of storage. But, you get free ram, sort of.

14)Make sure you hit ok. :3

Or, you could just go out and buy some better RAM for your comp. And the graphics card isn't too hot either, but hopefully that wont be too bad of an issue.

Oh schnapps, you can do that with Vista HDs!?? o.O I luv you if it really works! (I'm not with my laptop atm)

Also, I'm already aware my laptop isn't a gaming laptop. MapleStory still advertises itself as a minimum requirements game anyways.

Just for the record, the most I've ran at once on my laptop was MS, FireFox, Flash Player 10, Notepad, and Paint.NET. Nothing strange happened, although my performance did suffer. And this was at the time when the strange glitch I've originally mentioned never ever happened.

Kajiti, do you have all of the visual eye candy disable for vista? Try running Vista in classic theme instead of Aero theme.

I have no idea what you're talking about with themes. (I'm not with my laptop atm)

Here's a general list of things I've turned off and crap when I got it new:
--Program windows no longer have transparent/opaque effects, showing whatever is underneath.
--Mini windows do not appear if I mouse over minimized programs.
--Toshiba Flash Cards no longer annoy me. I do not know what the difference is with or without those anyways.
--Windows updates and whatnot no longer run without my permission. I have yet to tell Windows Defender to stfu though o.O
--Program window buttons no longer glow via Gaussian blur-like effect.