Wow, lots of Vista lovers out there...far more than I'd ever "met" before. Wonder if these folks are MS plants? Ha! Just kiddin. Anyway, I've been running SP1 for Vista for a while now on a Lenovo T60 laptop with a couple gigs of memory and a fairly robust ATI graphics card. Unfortunately, there's not much in the SP to be happy about. The big problems are still present. Near constant HD activity...it drives me freaking batty. How much indexing can it possibly be doing? I still have occasional issues waking up a hibernating laptop. Why? CPU usage and Mem usage are still simply out of control. App launches are still typically slower on Vista than on XP. Vista looks nice, but outside of the over hyped directX 10 and bit locker, there is absolutely no reason to have Vista when XP just SCREAMS on the same hardware. Here's hoping that SP2 is the magic bullet.
Ed, your hard drive noise doesn't sound like a Vista problem. Sounds more like a hard drive problem.
My bios allows for a 'cool and quiet' mode that slows down the speed of the drive, maybe you can do the same for yours if the noise is so annoying. Also, indexing can be turned off if you don't do much searches. You can also upgrade to a quieter drive as a last resort.
Turn off the auto restore point stuff. Until I did that it was crazy like a rattlesnake and never stopped. I have a drive that doesn't do acoustic management so it was a nightmare for a media center pc in a quiet room!
Watching an episode of Heroes in WMP while burning a DVD with CloneDVD2, while replying, under Vista Ultimate. Paint Shop Pro XI is open, as is iTunes.
CPU usage (Intel Q6600): 19% Memory usage (2GB DDR2-800): 49%
What was that about out of control CPU/Mem usage again?
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Wow, lots of Vista lovers out there...far more than I'd ever "met" before. Wonder if these folks are MS plants? Ha! Just kiddin. Anyway, I've been running SP1 for Vista for a while now on a Lenovo T60 laptop with a couple gigs of memory and a fairly robust ATI graphics card. Unfortunately, there's not much in the SP to be happy about. The big problems are still present. Near constant HD activity...it drives me freaking batty. How much indexing can it possibly be doing? I still have occasional issues waking up a hibernating laptop. Why? CPU usage and Mem usage are still simply out of control. App launches are still typically slower on Vista than on XP. Vista looks nice, but outside of the over hyped directX 10 and bit locker, there is absolutely no reason to have Vista when XP just SCREAMS on the same hardware. Here's hoping that SP2 is the magic bullet.
Ed, your hard drive noise doesn't sound like a Vista problem. Sounds more like a hard drive problem.
My bios allows for a 'cool and quiet' mode that slows down the speed of the drive, maybe you can do the same for yours if the noise is so annoying. Also, indexing can be turned off if you don't do much searches. You can also upgrade to a quieter drive as a last resort.
Turn off the auto restore point stuff. Until I did that it was crazy like a rattlesnake and never stopped. I have a drive that doesn't do acoustic management so it was a nightmare for a media center pc in a quiet room!
turn that off and you'll be set.
Watching an episode of Heroes in WMP while burning a DVD with CloneDVD2, while replying, under Vista Ultimate. Paint Shop Pro XI is open, as is iTunes.
CPU usage (Intel Q6600): 19%
Memory usage (2GB DDR2-800): 49%
What was that about out of control CPU/Mem usage again?