Vista & Memory

Energize · 17 Jun 2007 at 14:05

Doesn't the constant thrashing for the 1st 5mins, slow down other applications that need to use the hdd a lot? Then after you quit a game, does it start caching everything again?

Hearing the hard drive for 5 mins at boot up would make me cringe with the memories of my pentium 233mhz running windows 98 and taking 5 mins to load up before it became useable.

snowdog · 17 Jun 2007 at 14:36

Energize said:
Doesn't the constant thrashing for the 1st 5mins, slow down other applications that need to use the hdd a lot? Then after you quit a game, does it start caching everything again?

Hearing the hard drive for 5 mins at boot up would make me cringe with the memories of my pentium 233mhz running windows 98 and taking 5 mins to load up before it became useable.

Wich apps need the hdd a lot, if you have enough ram, ie 4 gb or more, the hdd should be completly left out, I have never noticed hdd lag once its done cacheing.
As for the loading in the 1st 2-5 mins: yes could be so, but once that app is loaded a few times that needs the hdd most often, widnows will renember that, and cache that 1st next time, making it start a lot faster as the rest next time I believe.
After quitting a game: May well be so, but I never noticed tbh, so can't say.

As for the long booting, MY xp takes even longer to get usable, but this is probably due to the fact that drive is fragmented and I'm not bothered fixing it due to it being fat32, wich takes over 24 hours to defrag :mad:

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Imo the cacheing couldnt be better, I prefer losing 2-5 mins @ start than 3 seconds each time I'm loading something for the next 15 hrs.

BoomAM · 17 Jun 2007 at 16:29

snowdog said:
As for the long booting, MY xp takes even longer to get usable, but this is probably due to the fact that drive in fragmented and I'm not bothered fixing it due to it being fat32, wich takes over 24 hours to defrag

Same here.
XP boots to the logon screen in under 25 second on my system, but actually logging in, and letting the thing load my apps, which arnt all that many, takes upto 5 minutes to get everything running smoothly.

Energize · 17 Jun 2007 at 17:08

You should use msconfig. My slow pc in my sig fully logs on in under 30 seconds.

snowdog · 17 Jun 2007 at 17:23

Energize said:
You should use msconfig. My slow pc in my sig fully logs on in under 30 seconds.

Already did, I need everything that boots, but msn & xfire defo load slower on xp than in vista, aside that I have a reasonably clean install of just 32 processes in xp, disabled unneeded services etc.. , yet takes longer to be usable than my 70 process vista install...
Upto logon screen boot is as good as it can be, pretty much as a clean install, 15-25 secs to logon, but from logon about 3 minutes if not more...

BoomAM · 17 Jun 2007 at 23:16

Energize said:
You should use msconfig. My slow pc in my sig fully logs on in under 30 seconds.

I do myself, theres only 5 startup items:
- Last.FM.
- Daemon Tools.
- Sygate.
- Avast!
- Ultramon.
I run defrag every week, and bootvis, along with a few other things. Doesnt make a difference.
Doesnt really bother me tbh. It runs fine when its finished doing what its doing.

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