Probably so the hdd isn't constantly thrasing for 5 mins after logon when you actually want to use it for something useful.
Vista is fantastic
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Probably so the hdd isn't constantly thrasing for 5 mins after logon when you actually want to use it for something useful.
I don't find that problem.
I heard this again today. Was onsite & client said 'so what do you think of Vista?' before I had a chance to say anything, he carried on '..because I heard it is as bad as ME!'.
Hahaha, he was telling you the truth, he is probably just as mentally unstable like Vista before SP1-RC)
as bad as ME!'.
Hahaha, he was telling you the truth, he is probably just as mentally unstable like Vista before SP1-RC)
Vista is 100% stable for 99.9% of people even without SP1 RC.
3 days? HDDs are designed to be used, it's not doing anything adverse to your HDD's lifespan whatsoever.
I've found Superfetch to be very efficient. I get out of bed, turn my PC on and go downstairs. Come up again a couple of minutes later, and the apps I usually run (MSN, Firefox and Winamp) appear instantly. Same couldn't be said for XP.
Utter rubbish. Hard drives in servers on constantly reading and writing for years with no failures. I don't like Vista though
I used to hate Vista. The 32bit Version though, everything I tried with it went belly up at some point Pre Release and after. So one day i took the plunge bought Vista 64 with a huge amount of apprehension and Hey Presto the perfect OS imo.
It was actually something NathanE said a while back that got me thinking, in some regards we are Pioneers of this OS, backwards step thinking that XP was the be all and end all..... Wise words I still dual boot though purely for a few games that are 16bit written, old Amiga Games mostly that I still enjoy to this day. Otherwise Vista 64 all the way, actually find the Driver support better for 64 than 32 is way better.
It was actually something NathanE said a while back that got me thinking, in some regards we are Pioneers of this OS, backwards step thinking that XP was the be all and end all..... Wise words
I still dual boot though purely for a few games that are 16bit written, old Amiga Games mostly that I still enjoy to this day. Otherwise Vista 64 all the way, actually find the Driver support better for 64 than 32 is way better.Wow. Ive never seen a thread which started with I love vista. . . .
For the record, i am a happy and satisfied user of Vista x64 and find the gaming more stable than XP. People are still regurgitating the info from the first few weeks not realising that its now a decent OS which suffers few problems.
For the record, i am a happy and satisfied user of Vista x64 and find the gaming more stable than XP. People are still regurgitating the info from the first few weeks not realising that its now a decent OS which suffers few problems.
Well, that was a figure of speech, I didn't literally mean that your hard drive will last 3 days!
When I first installed Vista, I noticed my HDD was thrashing for hours on end, I thought Vista was re-configuring itself or something like that so I left it for work, but when I came back it was still going strong. I did some googling and found out so many people have the exact same problem. Raptor 150 is so loud compare to my other WDs (500GB) and the noise of constant disk thrashing was just unbearable.
I don't really notice any difference in terms of performance at all. The programmes I use often load almost instantly without Prefetch anyway so can't be bothered with it.
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Is SP1 stil a Beta ?
what Sandbox software works well with Vista x64 ?
I think it was Google who said that there was no discernible life span difference between hard drives that were under heavy usage 24/7 and drives that saw relatively little usage.
What I presume is the source but I can't be bothered to read at 9am.
I really love Vista, the only things I turn off are windows defender (because anyone who gets spy ware deserves it for being an idiot) and the god awful windows sidebar.
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UAC and/or Virtual PC 2007
The former is included in Vista and enabled by default. The latter is a freeware download from Microsoft.
Wouldn't bother trying any other "sandbox" software as it will all be crap.
Indeed, free RAM = wasted RAM, a good OS will use as much as it possible can.
Oops forgot VMware - yes that certainly isn't crap
Although I personally prefer the "lightweightness" of Virtual PC but I'm just wierd like that