vista premium x64 is sluggish and hdd is always accessing

[beldin]

Fresh install of vista premium x64 on 500GB sataII drive, amd 6400+ and 4 GB
fast ddr2 ram. My old box with an athlon, 1 gig ram, win XP, 40 gig HDD
stuffed to bursting is MUCH quicker. Also, there is a huge amount of disk
accessing, more during the first ten to fifteen minutes. Go into Media
centre and music librar and the album covers pop up one at a time like it was
running on a commodore 64! Any ideas?

cheers

 

[Mark]

Are you using ReadyBoost?
There is a known bug with ReadyBoost on some boxes causing disk thrashing
during the first few minutes after bringing the computer out of sleep or
hibernate. (Supposed to be fixed in SP1.)

Seems ReadyBoost encrypts all it's information (good thing), but forgets the
encryption key when asleep (bad thing.) So, it has to reset and start over.
Those first minutes are the "catch up" and can significantly reduce
performance during that time.
http://bhandler.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!70F64BC910C9F7F3!2212.entry


If the system is really "fresh", then the search indexing may be slowing
things down. It takes a few days for this function to reach "maturity" and
then the disk thrashing slows down. It can be tamed with a few tweaks, or
turn it off.

 

[Captain]

I wish I could offer you some help, but I am in a similar situation and the
more I use Vista, the more I am convinced that it's going to be like Window
Millenium, lasting a very short time. I have a Dell Vostro Duo Core 2.66Mhz
with 2GB RAM, 250GB SATA II HD, Nvidia 8600GT video card and my XP box does
circles around this thing. I have Vista at work on a similar machine and
it's even worse. I was really hoping the SP1 would at a little zip, but I
just don't see it. I don't know about you, but my solution is simple- go
back to XP. I am very close to making this happen.