Vista - if it won't leave my HD alone I'm going back to XP!

EddScott

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I've had Vista 64 on my machine now for a while. I've still got superfetch and I read that Vista would eventually calm down with the HD abuse. Well it hasn't.

Even just sitting here on the net, its thrashing my HD like a good un. Its even more irritating when watching films (PC linked to TV) because I can here the HD ove rthe film.

Is there anything I can do? I tried turning off superfetch but it didn't seem to make any difference.
 
no, tweak the indexing so it only scans the folders you want.. (and disable all the filetypes you don't want)

also, disable windows defender real-time scanning (from the defender options), and remove your av program if you have one, you know you don't need it
 
Yeah, I found that turning off Defender and Indexing helped a lot.

What do they do anyway? I know what Superfetch does but not these two.
 
It is mobo dependent for some reason as i never had that HD trashing on 2 ASUS & 2 DFI models & i wondered why i never had the problem until i installed
DFI Infinity CFX3200-M2/G & my god HD thrash Metropolis for a good week or more.
 
My indexing didn't settle down after a week so I just disabled it... I can't notice any difference in practise so off it stays.
 
how often do people use the search function within windows?

Myself very rarely, cos I know where each file/what each file is for? Well the one's I will ever need to search for anyway
 
Even with Indexing disabled, searches are usually reasonably swift anyway providing you limit it enough and have fast drives/cpu.
 
never had this issue with mine, it only seems to work the HD when I'm away from the machine for a while, and it stops pretty much as soon as I unlock it. Only thing I have turned off is system restore.
 
Ace Modder said:
how often do people use the search function within windows?

Myself very rarely, cos I know where each file/what each file is for? Well the one's I will ever need to search for anyway
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I use it loads in Vista. Hit the Windows key, type the first 3 or 4 letters of the filename and hit enter. Much faster than navigating through Explorer.
 
by default, indexing only indexes the "users" folder and your start menu. it shouldn't be an issue at all. i haven't disabled mine and certainly don't notice it running ever.....

i disable windows defender and system restore. superfetch thrashes my disk for a few minutes on startup but that is all. it's all good. :)
 
Does it actually work on Vista?
On XP Home, it spends hours indexing the drive (which is odd as updatedb in Gentoo does 5 times the discspace in about 12 mins), and then as soon as you bring up the finder, it starts thrashing the drive again doing your search.
I thought it was supposed to be a rip-off of slocate in unix....ie you run updatedb, then when you need something you just do "locate something" and get an instantaneous answer.

My vista acts like it's stress testing the drive most of the time, yet I can find no service named "indexing service".
 
On my Vista install, I disabled both the search indexing and superfetch, but it still kept accessing the HDD regularly, for no apparent reason.

I tried out Windows Server 2008 which is Vista based, and it is SO much more responsive than Vista, and does not have any of the annoying HDD access Vista does. It is how Vista should have been. MS need to let their server programmers develop their desktop OSes as well!
 
Same here, defender and search now dead.
Drive still having a fit.
Can't be precaching because it's been running long enough to fill my RAM 20 times.

Interesting about server08.....is it OK with Dx and games and stuff?
 
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