Vista disk activity driving me insane

[news.usenetbinaries.com]

I have a Windows Vista Ultimate box I built with an E6400 Core 2 Duo
Processor, 2GB of ddr2-800 RAM, and a WD Raptor 10k hard drive and 1GB
ReadyBoost drive.

The one thing which is driving me nuts about Windows Vista compared to XP is
the idle drive activity - its insane!

I disabled Windows Search Service, which I really liked but couldnt deal
with the disk activity.

Doing anything that requires setting a System Restore point (like installing
an application) - will send the disk into a frenzy for over 5 minutes!

But the most annoying part is that I will be playing a game, and suddenly
Vista will start hammering my disk - I have *no idea* why this happens - it
doesnt happen under XP with the same RAM. It ruins the playability of my
game and is just hell.

Anyone know any other tweaks or the possible source of all this disk
crunching madness???

 

[Former captain of the Enterprise]

I have been raving about this a long time...

the naysayer vistaboy drone borgs in here, have tape recorders in their
mouths and repeat
the same nonsense again and again= "Vista works find on my computer, your
hardware, drivers or knowledge is incompete!"

It doesnt even cross their small puny brians that I know more about vista
than all of them combined! lol
Frankly Im fed up with the misinformation and lies they spread.

YES vista is EXTREMELY bad in that aspect... along with many more.. but I
wont say anything about that now.. what can you do?

Heck... everyone I know is returning back to XP if they can... and I never
could use
vista as a production OS because of all these annoying problems and the fact
that its
slowpoke supreme. I would suggest you return to XP!

This is not a step backwards... it using the best thing that is out there..
and XP IS the best thing out there...

vista is stupid.. designed by monkeys for monkeys....

 

[Frank]

I have been raving about this a long time...

the naysayer vistaboy drone borgs in here, have tape recorders in their
mouths and repeat
the same nonsense again and again= "Vista works find on my computer, your
hardware, drivers or knowledge is incompete!"

It doesnt even cross their small puny brians that I know more about vista
than all of them combined! lol
Frankly Im fed up with the misinformation and lies they spread.

YES vista is EXTREMELY bad in that aspect... along with many more.. but I
wont say anything about that now.. what can you do?

Heck... everyone I know is returning back to XP if they can... and I never
could use
vista as a production OS because of all these annoying problems and the fact
that its
slowpoke supreme. I would suggest you return to XP!

This is not a step backwards... it using the best thing that is out there..
and XP IS the best thing out there...

You have no idea of what you're talking about. You didn't answer the
op's question and you don't even have Vista installed. You're a liar and
a linux troll and we all know it.
Frank

 

[Frank]

I have a Windows Vista Ultimate box I built with an E6400 Core 2 Duo
Processor, 2GB of ddr2-800 RAM, and a WD Raptor 10k hard drive and 1GB
ReadyBoost drive.

The one thing which is driving me nuts about Windows Vista compared to
XP is the idle drive activity - its insane!

I disabled Windows Search Service, which I really liked but couldnt deal
with the disk activity.

Doing anything that requires setting a System Restore point (like
installing an application) - will send the disk into a frenzy for over 5
minutes!

But the most annoying part is that I will be playing a game, and
suddenly Vista will start hammering my disk - I have *no idea* why this
happens - it doesnt happen under XP with the same RAM. It ruins the
playability of my game and is just hell.

Anyone know any other tweaks or the possible source of all this disk
crunching madness???

I have basically the same setup as you. My Raptor is the 74gig model.
When I first installed Vista Ultimate I too noticed allot of disk
action. As we both kbnow it's especially noticeable on these noisy
Raptor's, isn't it!
Anyway it's Vista defraging, indexing and especially superfetch
"learning" your computing habits. It will eventually settle down.
You might also consider increasing your readyboost from 1gig to 2 or 4.
Frank

 

[Former captain of the Enterprise]

How can I be a linux troll when I am telling people to return to XP because
its better?

lol

 

[UsenetBinaries.com]

If he's a Linux troll why is he calling XP the best thing out there?

Personally, I'm not ready to disagree with him.

Quite frankly after using Vista Ultimate since RC2 I'm definitely going to
put another
drive in my machine for XP. My main interest in Vista was DirectX 10 but
besides that I
dont mind backburnering it until the DirectX 10 games actually come out.

Now I hear someone has hacked DirectX 10 for XP, which isnt surprising
since some game developers have said that there is no reason for DirectX 10
to be Vista-only except for marketing.

But the disk activity thing is really the only part of Vista which I can no
longer deal with.
Oh and it would be nice to get my framerate performance and stability back
in BF2142.

 

[Neil Harley]

I have been raving about this a long time...

"I have been raving for a long time" would have done.

the naysayer vistaboy drone borgs in here, have tape recorders in
their mouths and repeat
the same nonsense again and again= "Vista works find on my computer,
your hardware, drivers or knowledge is incompete!"

If you're going to attempt humour at least learn spelling and grammar. LOL

It doesnt even cross their small puny brians that I know more about
vista than all of them combined! lol
ROTFLMAO


Frankly Im fed up with the misinformation and lies they spread.

What lies would that be? LOL you really are an idiot aren't you?

YES vista is EXTREMELY bad in that aspect... along with many more..

In what respect? You're raving again and not making much sense. Please
contain a subject in your sentence so we can attempt to keep up with the
ravings of a madman. See! I said your first sentence should have been left
at "I have been raving for a long time". The only change to it could be the
addition of, "and will be for a long time to come".

but I wont say anything about that now.. what can you do?

Wait for you to say something worth reading perhaps?

Heck... everyone I know is returning back to XP if they can... and I
never could use
vista as a production OS because of all these annoying problems and
the fact that its
slowpoke supreme. I would suggest you return to XP!

You're off again with another rant. Calm down laddie. It's only an OS.

This is not a step backwards... it using the best thing that is out
there.. and XP IS the best thing out there...

vista is stupid.. designed by monkeys for monkeys....

Are you a Care In The Community project gone wrong?

 

[Guest]

I've been using Vista Ultimate for a while and noticed this problem for a
couple of weeks then it went away. Opposed to what was stated in the other
reply, I am not a vista drone and I love Vista. I have not problems with it
at all, except with my Palm Tungsten, but I will eventually get past that too.

How long have you had Vista installed? You may be experiencing the
indexing service working on you drive index. You can try turning off the
service and see if that helps your problem. Vista jumps into indexing mode
when it perceives that you aren't doing anything. Once the indexing is done,
you shouldn't have as much disk activity. I only see big hits on the HDD
when I am installing or uninstalling something.

Hope this helps,
Benny

 

[Steve Thackery]

I can't understand why you find disk activity so objectionable. It's just a
hard disk - not like it's fastened to a body part or anything, is it?

Anyway, it's normal. The indexer generates lots of disk activity, but if
you leave it alone it will settle down to almost nothing after a week or so.
Vista does scheduled disk defrags each week; it also shuffles the files
around on the disk to optimise your boot time; and preloads files into RAM
that it's expecting you to use.

It shouldn't interfere with anything else, though. It should back off
immediately if anything else is using the computer resources. Are you
*sure* it interferes with your game playability? In what way, exactly?

As I said, most of it's due to the indexer, so leave it running for a few
days and really you shouldn't have any more problems.

Steve

 

[Adam Albright]

How can I be a linux troll when I am telling people to return to XP because
its better?

You got to overlook Frank. He only has two posting modes; dumb and
dumber. He's dreaming someday, if he gets dumb enough, somebody will
offer him the opportunity to become a member of the dumbest; the MVP
club, which first and formost requires you swear an oath, sealed in
blood, to never ever be critical of anything Microsoft has done.
NEVER, to matter what. Frank is currently working on trying to
remember the Microsoft mantra.

1. Nobody expects the latest version of Windows to work, till the
first service pack gets released, oh, maybe a year from now.

2. Got a problem with Vista? Oh, it got to be a driver issue, not
Microsoft's fault. <snicker>

3. It's your software, not Vista. Microsoft software is always bug
free. <double snicker>

4. If you can't get Vista to work, you must be dumb.

 

[UsenetBinaries.com]

If you play video games it is very disruptive, because if the computer gets
busy with too much disk activity you will get severe stuttering and reduced
frame rates in the game which affect its playability.

This is especially a problem with Vista, since its stability and performance
with the game I play daily (BF2142) is already significantly lower then it
was on XP.

 

[Frank]

Are you a Care In The Community project gone wrong?

I think he's wondered far from the home.
Frank

 

[Frank]

If you play video games it is very disruptive, because if the computer
gets busy with too much disk activity you will get severe stuttering and
reduced frame rates in the game which affect its playability.

This is especially a problem with Vista, since its stability and
performance with the game I play daily (BF2142) is already significantly
lower then it was on XP.

Please post your current systems specs.
Thanks.
Frank

 

[Sharon]

XP is not better. I am using Vista and find it superior to XP.

 

[tomlives2000]

Take a pill!

I have been raving about this a long time...

the naysayer vistaboy drone borgs in here, have tape recorders in their
mouths and repeat
the same nonsense again and again= "Vista works find on my computer, your
hardware, drivers or knowledge is incompete!"

It doesnt even cross their small puny brians that I know more about vista
than all of them combined! lol
Frankly Im fed up with the misinformation and lies they spread.

YES vista is EXTREMELY bad in that aspect... along with many more.. but I
wont say anything about that now.. what can you do?

Heck... everyone I know is returning back to XP if they can... and I
never could use
vista as a production OS because of all these annoying problems and the
fact that its
slowpoke supreme. I would suggest you return to XP!

This is not a step backwards... it using the best thing that is out
there.. and XP IS the best thing out there...

vista is stupid.. designed by monkeys for monkeys....

 

[Doris Day]

Please post your current systems specs.
Thanks.
Frank

Why Frankie Boy? You going to give him money if his hardware needs further
upgrading? Or do you just like to see your drivel in type?

Love and Kisses and a Special Big <snort> to Frankie Boy,
Doris

 

[UsenetBinaries.com]

Core 2 Duo E6400 2GB DDR-800 Raptor 150GB XFX 8800GTX

Which can run at a great frame rate - but when the disk thrashes in the
middle of a game all that hardware is worthless.

 

[Guest]

I notice some having issues and some not, but I also notice that 64 bit
performs very differently from 32 bit. What type of platform are you running
on?

 

[UsenetBinaries.com]

32-bit

 

[Guest]

I havent had any speed issues with my 64 bit system. just the basic issues
with programs not being compatible with 64 bit platforms. Not weird 3rd
party software, but MS products like Groove and Live Meeting which do not
fully support 64 bit platforms yet.