Vista slowed by 3rd party software

[Romane]

Well, you all saw my vent, and I still have some issues with Vista that I
broached a final resort solution to in another thread (thanks to everyone
for their responses there).

A couple of days ago I installed a gadget (finally) that gave me the load on
each core of my CPU, and both were running at a constant half capacity and
frequently more. Went into Task Manager, and discovered that in the
'Process' tab a process called NMIndexingService (from Nero) was
constantly/permanently running at 50% and greater in the CPU column. Killed
it from Task Manager (can always reboot if system becomes unstable).

Suddenly my CPU started running closer to (varying between) the 1% to 15%
mark, and Vista has become far more responsive. Also had fewer 'program not
responding' issues, which is encouraging. So used MSConfig to kill off
anything being started automatically that came from Nero, and as well
knocked out 'Nero Scout' via its presence in Windows Explorer. System is
more stable than before, though still have some 'not responding issues', and
my nVidia driver still falls over now and again, but this has been an
encouraging step forward. Even printing seems to go better and smoother
(both my printers are hooked to my XP box). It's been 24 hours now since did
the MSConfig thing, with no apparent problems.

I offer this it as a possibility to others who are having problems with
Vista crawling - the culprit may be another piece of software. And if the
system becomes unstable or falls completely over by killing the offending
process, then can always reboot to get it back to "normal".

R.

 

[Guess Who]

It's a well known fact that the Nero Media Indexing is a system hog, and in
my opinion, completely useless utter trash. I wrote a scathing letter to
the folks at Nero for forcing this junk upon us. This is the last version of
Nero I will deal with.

Have you learned how to disable it?

 

[Romane]

Not sure I understand your question, but if going into MSConfig (type
msconfig in the search box, hit enter) and taking the ticks out of anything
that came from Nero (found 2 under the 'Services' tab, and 1 under the
'Startup' tab), hit 'Apply' and then 'OK' fits the bill, then yes, have
disabled it. Also, into Windows Explorer, select 'Computer', and get rid of
'Nero Scout' - from memory, right click it, select 'properties' (I think, I
did not take that much note) and find the checkbox you can deselect to
prevent it starting with Vista.

Doing this, however, means that at boot, Windows Defender will give you a
prompt that it has prevented a program from running. Right click, choose to
allow the blocked program to run. That will give you a dialogue box that has
a check-box that you can select to say you do not want this program to run
at startup. If MSConfig then comes back up when you tap the OK button, just
close it using the 'Cancel' button (or you may end up having to go through
the whole process again - I had to re-do it twice more because I hit OK, and
only at the second repeat did I notice that the 'general' tab had gone back
to 'Normal startup' instead of staying on 'Selective startup').

R.

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

What you should do is uninstall ALL of Nero, and then re-install Burning
ROM, Express and maybe the backup utility, and leave all of the rest of Nero
out..

Not sure I understand your question, but if going into MSConfig (type
msconfig in the search box, hit enter) and taking the ticks out of
anything that came from Nero (found 2 under the 'Services' tab, and 1
under the 'Startup' tab), hit 'Apply' and then 'OK' fits the bill, then
yes, have disabled it. Also, into Windows Explorer, select 'Computer', and
get rid of 'Nero Scout' - from memory, right click it, select 'properties'
(I think, I did not take that much note) and find the checkbox you can
deselect to prevent it starting with Vista.

Doing this, however, means that at boot, Windows Defender will give you a
prompt that it has prevented a program from running. Right click, choose
to allow the blocked program to run. That will give you a dialogue box
that has a check-box that you can select to say you do not want this
program to run at startup. If MSConfig then comes back up when you tap the
OK button, just close it using the 'Cancel' button (or you may end up
having to go through the whole process again - I had to re-do it twice
more because I hit OK, and only at the second repeat did I notice that the
'general' tab had gone back to 'Normal startup' instead of staying on
'Selective startup').

R.

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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

 

[Romane]

(Slaps forehead with palm of hand)

It is always the easiest solutions that are the easiest to not think about.
Thanks.

R.