is there any program on the market - free would be nice - that allows me to tweak and store my teaked settings for help boost my systems performance?
Manually messing with services and programs in the background etc
you know, set it and simply click to use that setup then simply click again to restore previous settings.

Also - should i keep superfetch active?
Im a gamer and games load - on the fly - so to speak and superfetch is really for people that do alot of other usage on the system - those programs im not too fussed about loading slowly - i want to free up my system from as much system hogging stuff as possible

plus i hear superfetch is pointless if you turn your computer off as it resets - i don't keep my computer on and only turn it on when im using it - so superfetch isn't exactly needed - but will i really see any benefits with it active? :/

Just uninstall unwanted programs, and disable windows system restore, it is pointless and uses up resources for no reason. 

But check out CCleaner its free will detele temp files, cookies cache etc.  Also you can go in and remove programs from starting up with vista.

I don't think turning off system restore is a very good idea.  Changing the limit on the space it can use fine but disabling it can make it harder to fix Windows when something goes wrong.

If you are absolutely certain that you will never need the system restore function, then you can disable it. As far as I know it's not possible to tweak how much space it takes up. Keep one thing in mind though: as a gamer you're likely to often install new drivers for your videocard and soundcard for the possibility of improving performance or compatibility. If this fails, however, and you don't have the restore function turned on, you will not be able to easily revert back to the previous driver. I dunno, it doesn't harm your system to leave it turned on, so I'd leave it be.

"If you are absolutely certain that you will never need the system restore function, then you can disable it. As far as I know it's not possible to tweak how much space it takes up. Keep one thing in mind though: as a gamer you're likely to often install new drivers for your videocard and soundcard for the possibility of improving performance or compatibility. If this fails, however, and you don't have the restore function turned on, you will not be able to easily revert back to the previous driver. I dunno, it doesn't harm your system to leave it turned on, so I'd leave it be.

As for disabling superfetch, I've seen contradicting statements about it. But disabling it won't do any damage to your system, so the best way to find out if it helps improve game performance is by testing it out yourself. If you do disable it make sure you disable Readyboost along with it since the latter no longer serves any purpose when you have Superfetch turned off.

There are also plenty of programs available to tweak Vista, but most of them are counter-productive for gamers. Instead I suggest you take a look at this guide, which is awesome if you really want to turn off as many useless services as possible. Oh, one program I am a big fan of myself is TuneUp Utilities."

I second TuneUp Utilities. It is the most useful maintenance program I have ever come across. I had a .dll error with guitar hero 3, I ran TuneUp Utilities and it fixed it! However for tweaking tweakvista by stardock is a better choice, buy them both and your pc will run like lightning.

what id do is buy a ram specific USB key, those speed up your system.

"is there any program on the market - free would be nice - that allows me to tweak and store my teaked settings for help boost my systems performance?
Manually messing with services and programs in the background etc
you know, set it and simply click to use that setup then simply click again to restore previous settings.

Also - should i keep superfetch active?
Im a gamer and games load - on the fly - so to speak and superfetch is really for people that do alot of other usage on the system - those programs im not too fussed about loading slowly - i want to free up my system from as much system hogging stuff as possible

plus i hear superfetch is pointless if you turn your computer off as it resets - i don't keep my computer on and only turn it on when im using it - so superfetch isn't exactly needed - but will i really see any benefits with it active? :/"

• Speed Up Windows Vista Guide
• Tune Up Utilities 2008