This Vista Super-fetch thing

[johns]

The more I work with Vista, the better I like its
"theoretical" ideas, and the more I turn them off
and get improved performance back towards XP.

My latest vista hack involves USB thumb drive
slowness. I got sick and tired of sitting there
watching the arrow go around the circle while
Vista inspected my USB thumb drive. So I
googled for a fix. Sure enough, when I turned
"super-fetch" off, that problem went away, and
now my USB thumb drive loads files as rapid
as XP ... maybe even better. ????? You say.

Seems disk access in Vista is a network
protocol that involves a compression algorithm,
and it is slow as hades .. plus not very compatible
with XP hardware. ????????????? You say.

I guess the Vista gods meant for us to use
remote hard drives, and so it treats all our
data storage as a network drive. Turn it off, and
you are back to XP levels of performance.

Now this is my mull-headed thinking about
what Vista is trying to do. Turn it off, and see
for yourself. What do you think ?

Control Panel - Programs and Features -
( left ) Turn Windows Features on off ..
uncheck Remote Differential Compression ..
click allow ( ? ) and wait for it to disable.

Then check out your system response.

And this is not the only one !!! There's a
tcpip "feature" that can also go.

johns

 

[housetrained]

The more I work with Vista, the better I like its
"theoretical" ideas, and the more I turn them off
and get improved performance back towards XP.

My latest vista hack involves USB thumb drive
slowness. I got sick and tired of sitting there
watching the arrow go around the circle while
Vista inspected my USB thumb drive. So I
googled for a fix. Sure enough, when I turned
"super-fetch" off, that problem went away, and
now my USB thumb drive loads files as rapid
as XP ... maybe even better. ????? You say.

Seems disk access in Vista is a network
protocol that involves a compression algorithm,
and it is slow as hades .. plus not very compatible
with XP hardware. ????????????? You say.

I guess the Vista gods meant for us to use
remote hard drives, and so it treats all our
data storage as a network drive. Turn it off, and
you are back to XP levels of performance.

Now this is my mull-headed thinking about
what Vista is trying to do. Turn it off, and see
for yourself. What do you think ?

Control Panel - Programs and Features -
( left ) Turn Windows Features on off ..
uncheck Remote Differential Compression ..
click allow ( ? ) and wait for it to disable.

Then check out your system response.

And this is not the only one !!! There's a
tcpip "feature" that can also go.

johns

Always build your computer round the os not vice versa. Remember W95? Put on
W98 and problems. So on all up the chain. You don't mention your kit, but,
be honest, it was built for XP wasn't it?

 

[johns]

My build is generally around "parts is parts".
I would not have a clue as to building around
the OS. And yes, I do remember moving from
Win95 to Win98 and losing the boot floppy.
What is really frustrating about Vista is I'm
beginning to learn the innards of Vista, and
I see it as a truely superior OS to XP, but
the implementation and available hardware
is a joke. I have Vista 32 on :

Intel Core 2 Duo 6750
on Gigabyte P35 chipset
2 gigs 1333
nVidia 8800 GT O 512
cooled by Zalman VF1000 .... 37C to 61C ingame.
case Antec 900 with TruePower 650 watt.
2 x 350 gig Hitachi SATA 2

I can swap the drives to XP or Vista by
moving SATA power and cable, so I don't
have any conflicts at all. Everything runs
great under XP. And a lot of stuff runs
draggy under Vista ... until now. With these
network protocols turned off, and a lot of
other junk turned off, I have Vista running
slightly better than XP in both gaming and
web browsing ... especially OS updates.
Vista ram caching is a good idea, and makes
gaming smoother. NVidia needs to work on
their drivers for the 8800 series, but they are
finally coming around, and all my games are
up and doing fine ... Far Cry, Gothic 3, Crysis
.... are all very smooth ... and the Zalman keeps
things cool .. with a lot of help from the Antec
900 case fans ( 5 of them ). I'm just really
surprised that the Vista speed problem seems
caused by running local access using a network
protocol. I think I see the future somewhere in
that, but its implementation is a dog.

johns

 

[John Doe]

Always build your computer round the os not vice versa. Remember
W95? Put on W98 and problems. So on all up the chain. You don't
mention your kit, but, be honest, it was built for XP wasn't it?

My next door neighbor's Dell was purchased in 2000, with Windows 98
SE. It had 64 MB of RAM and a 10 GB hard drive. I have upgraded the
RAM to 768 MB and the hard drive to 45 GB. Installed Windows XP and
it works like a charm, no more crashing. It's not fast, but it's
smooth and reliable. They tend to keep things for a very long time.

 

[John Doe]

My build is generally around "parts is parts".
I would not have a clue as to building around
the OS. And yes, I do remember moving from
Win95 to Win98 and losing the boot floppy.
What is really frustrating about Vista is I'm
beginning to learn the innards of Vista, and
I see it as a truely superior OS to XP, but
the implementation and available hardware
is a joke.

That's why most of us are using Windows XP?

 

[johns]

I see it. I boot up in Vista .. now I'm ready
to go. I use to go get a cup of coffee while
my PC inspected its belly or something.

johns