Vista

[Innes]

Hi All;

Just installed Vista Home Premium, have to say installed like a charm, no
hickups and was ready to go in 30 minutes!
Specs;

Asus p5b Mobo
2 gb Corsair DDR2, 800 MHZ
Intel Core 2 due 6400
2 Western Digital Caviar drives, SATA not in RAID
1 Nvidia GeForce 7900CS 256MB


My question;

After disabling the scheduled defrag, and disabling the indexing service on
all partitions I notice a lot of hard drive activity while pc is idle, in
the taskmanager there are no applications running.
Any one with answers?

Oh My version of Windows is an OEM, so for you all out there wondering about
OEM, I would say go for it if you are familiar with your machine!

Thanks

Innes

 

[Rock]

Hi All;

Just installed Vista Home Premium, have to say installed like a charm, no
hickups and was ready to go in 30 minutes!
Specs;

Asus p5b Mobo
2 gb Corsair DDR2, 800 MHZ
Intel Core 2 due 6400
2 Western Digital Caviar drives, SATA not in RAID
1 Nvidia GeForce 7900CS 256MB

My question;

After disabling the scheduled defrag, and disabling the indexing service
on all partitions I notice a lot of hard drive activity while pc is idle,
in the taskmanager there are no applications running.
Any one with answers?

Oh My version of Windows is an OEM, so for you all out there wondering
about OEM, I would say go for it if you are familiar with your machine!

Open the Reliability and Performance Monitor and expand the disk section to
see what it's doing. Start Orb, type performance, and Reliability and
Performance Monitor should pop up at the top.

 

[nofumble]

have you tried to install old XP applications such as McAfee
Antivirus, Office 2003? Was it loaded and operate normally?

 

[Innes]

have you tried to install old XP applications such as McAfee
Antivirus, Office 2003? Was it loaded and operate normally?

No Office or McAffee, Nothing running in Taskmanager.
Just baffled!

Thanks for the reply!

Innes

 

[Jesse MacD]

Some of that is likely SuperFetch running in the background to make the
programs you use more frequently open quicker. Even with Defrag schedule
disabled, I believe Vista will still do things like that.

 

[Travis King]

Hi All;

Just installed Vista Home Premium, have to say installed like a charm,
no hickups and was ready to go in 30 minutes!
Specs;

Asus p5b Mobo
2 gb Corsair DDR2, 800 MHZ
Intel Core 2 due 6400
2 Western Digital Caviar drives, SATA not in RAID
1 Nvidia GeForce 7900CS 256MB


My question;

After disabling the scheduled defrag, and disabling the indexing service
on all partitions I notice a lot of hard drive activity while pc is
idle, in the taskmanager there are no applications running.
Any one with answers?

Oh My version of Windows is an OEM, so for you all out there wondering
about OEM, I would say go for it if you are familiar with your machine!

Thanks

Innes

It's typical in all of the pre-releases and I'm sure it's true in the
RTM as well that Vista goes crazy with your hard disk for the first few
days, so expect a lot of HD activity for a while. After a few days, it
should probably level out.