FKIN DISGUSTED.

[Conor]

Last night I knocked up a PC for my son. It's an Athlon XP1500, 512MB
RAM, a 6yr old 40GB HDD and a GF4MX.

Installed XP Home on it along with the usual list of software I install
and several 3D shooters. 34GB in all.

3D gaming aside, it blows my computer out of the water. Boots faster,
feels faster, opens apps faster etc.

My Vista box?

X2 4800, 2GB RAM, SATA RAID.

Disgusted? NOT BLOODY KIDDING. It just proves that it's not just down
to drivers.

Perhaps if Vista spent less time hacking away at the HDD, it might get
a decent speed increase. Even now, months into the installation, it's
there chugging away at something as I type this.

 

[Dana Cline - MVP]

That could be Windows Search...I have no idea if its a part of Vista or
Office 2007, but I'm attempting to find out how to remove it or disable it.
I noticed last night my average CPU consumption at idle was 25%, with the
search indexing taking up most of that.

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

 

[Neil Harley]

That could be Windows Search...I have no idea if its a part of Vista
or Office 2007, but I'm attempting to find out how to remove it or
disable it. I noticed last night my average CPU consumption at idle
was 25%, with the search indexing taking up most of that.

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

Turn Windows Search off in the Services

 

[Conor]

That could be Windows Search...I have no idea if its a part of Vista or
Office 2007, but I'm attempting to find out how to remove it or disable it.
I noticed last night my average CPU consumption at idle was 25%, with the
search indexing taking up most of that.

It's certainly HDD activity that seems to be the main source for system
slowdowns. For whatever reasons, Vista seems to want to spend the first
half hour of any boot up cataloging stuff etc.

 

[Dana Cline - MVP]

I found that one and tried to stop it from within Task Manager, but it
wouldn't let me. I'll play with it tonight from the management console and
see if I can shut it off there.

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

 

[LoneStar]

It's certainly HDD activity that seems to be the main source for system
slowdowns. For whatever reasons, Vista seems to want to spend the first
half hour of any boot up cataloging stuff etc.

Right, but it's all low priority. Any user input for programs is
immediately given higher priority and the cataloging, etc, is suspended.

EW

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Dana, there is a search option in Vista. During the Beta stages you could
disable this feature, but, as far as I know, in the RTM they prevented the
search option from being disabled. While it can be a pain initially, it
usually soon settles down. The whole idea is for it to search in the
background and thus, theoretically, use less CPU resources.

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[Just FYI]

I have the exact opposite experience. I have similar hardware with both XP
and Vista. I have a pretty large chunk of files on a separate partition
indexed. Vista totally rocks, and makes XP feel old-fashioned and sluggish.

 

[Dana Cline - MVP]

John,

Go into Services, disable (don't just stop it, but set it to Disabled) the
Windows Search service. That seems to take care of it...

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

 

[Conor]

OK...

Found out what the problem is with ProcExp. Diskeeper 2007 Invisitask.
It's always doing something in the background and it is having an
impact on usability. It's actually working more than it's supposed to.
Disabled Invisitask and it's like a different computer.

 

[mmaterie]

OK...

Found out what the problem is with ProcExp.Diskeeper2007 Invisitask.
It's always doing something in the background and it is having an
impact on usability. It's actually working more than it's supposed to.
Disabled Invisitask and it's like a different computer.

--
Conor

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.........

If you had problems with InvisiTasking, it is possible that some of
the requirements (system performance counters) for it to work properly
were disabled. A good indicator of a missing requirement is if you
were not able to see the InvisiTasking any activity on the resource
graph. That graph is present in all DK editions except Home on the
Dashboard tab. In any case, you can contact Diskeeper technical
support for assistance. They can dig into the matter further to help
you out.

 

[Conor]

If you had problems with InvisiTasking, it is possible that some of
the requirements (system performance counters) for it to work properly
were disabled. A good indicator of a missing requirement is if you
were not able to see the InvisiTasking any activity on the resource
graph. That graph is present in all DK editions except Home on the
Dashboard tab. In any case, you can contact Diskeeper technical
support for assistance. They can dig into the matter further to help
you out.

Everything is there...it just seems to do it at inappropriate times.
Anyway I've e-mailed them.

 

[Charlie Tame]

double click my computer, right click drive and go properties, uncheck
index this drive for faster searching. Seems to clear up a number of
disk related problems and not just with Vista.

Charlie