What is the best way forward to improve my computers performance after installing lion

Since Lion runs worse than windows should one use onyx to improve performance or revert to snow leopard? If onyx is a safe and good solution, are there any remaining dangers of running the latest onyx program? What settings would you recommend in Onyx?

1. Make sure you've updated all your programs.
2. Are programs slow if you only have one running at a time?
(and/or after running the "purge" command)
Your signature says you have 8 GB or RAM, if so, you can try disabling paging to see if that helps:
(the commands in blue should fit on one line, not two)
to disable:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
reboot
to re-enable:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist

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