Turn Vista features on and off

[Spooky]

An interesting item buried a little deep in Vista and out of the way is in the 'Programs and Features'. This is where you remove installed software like the 'Add/Remove Software' in XP, but different and a little fancier. Its not really the 'Programs and Features' thats buried a little deep and out of the way, its a certain part of it. To get to the interesting part, do this:

Go to Control Panel, then start up the 'Programs and Features'. After it starts up in the menu on the left you will see the interesting part indicated by its link called 'Turn Windows Features on or off', click on the link and after the list of these items loads in the GUI window and you will be presented with a bunch of interesting choices to play with. Instead of me trying to explain them all, it would be better if you simply experiment yourself. Some choices may be to turn off the 'Tablet PC Optional Components' for example if you don't use Tablet PC. So...turn off those things your not using, as with any windows OS you may benefit from it in terms of OS performance.

Its important to note that if you turn something off that you need and are using it and don't realize it (which is easy to do with Vista), you will need to remember what you turned off because you might need to turn it back on to restore some type of functionality to some software you use of something, there is no 'Boo Boo' button or 'Oh Crap' button; or in other words there is not 'Set Defaults' or 'Undo Changes button. Once you turn something on or off and click OK your only choices are 'Restart Now' or 'Restart later'. Its also important to note that this does not un-install anything, it just turns it on or off.