Vista Ultimate 64 Issues

y2viks

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Hi,

I've had Vista Ultimate 64 for about a month and all seemed fantastic at the start but now i've found a couple of niggles.

1 - Once it's booted up and i've not opened anything, the harddisk is still making accessing sounds etc constantly. What is it doing?

2 - When i click on the add/remove programs in control panel - nothing happens. I can access anything else, just not that.

3 - When i chick shutdown it takes at least 20 mins before it shuts down.

Thanks

Viks
 
The hard drive being accessed is due to the indexing setting by default in vista. Have you updated to SP1 as this reduces this a lot!
 
1: It is Vista, who knows? Indexing? Loading/compiling superfetch cache? Sending your pron library to Bill Gates?

2: Um...... you broked it?

3: Check the event viewer for errors.

Edit: Without the control panel you gotta go C:\Windows\System32\eventvwr.exe then select custom views
 
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I'm on SP1 but to be honest it's not a huge problem, i'll just need to invest in a mute harddrive :p

I system restored back to the good old days (1 day ago ><) and I can now get into Add/Remove Progs

I've not yet tried to shut down but again, not the hugest problem

Thanks :)
 
Could it be possible what broke your control panel is an application that tries to plug itself into it (some annoying gits try this)?

Shut downs can take awhile on fresh installs and after updates but generally speaking it should only be a few minutes tops.
 
okay off of the top of my memory

how to turn off indexing?

It is so annoying
click on start then run that bar at the bottom type in services.msc
in there you should find something called windows search service
click on it to stop then right click and click disable

From now on it won't be killing your drive :)
 
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