I dunno I always have had is as a link instead :S
There's a Vista Myths page which says clearing your prefetch cache doesn't do much to speed up the PC, instead Vista starts re-caching what you've cleared.
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I'm at a bit of a loss Agent. I can jump in and start using the PC the moment the start bar appears. :\
It's far easier than on XP, where you realistically need the boot to finish before you use things. That same process on Vista seems a lower priority here.
My laptop's a bit slower, but again faster than XP is on a desktop, despite the 5,400rpm drive.
Me too, and to say I'm annoyed with the entire Vista experience is an understatement.
I have no problem with the OS as such - as previously said, I prefer Vista by far over XP...It's just so slow compared to my XP partition.
I've tried every trick in the book. I honestly admit defeat.
Vista runs flawlessly for me. Very fast and access after boot is instant.
Agent, this might sound a bit odd, but you could consider getting proper tech support from Microsoft. I'm not sure what is available, but if you have a legit copy of Vista then you must be entitled to something. If so, just make it their problem instead of yours. Explain all the problems and just let them try solutions and keep saying, "Nope" until it's fixed. My friend works for a company who has some kind of Microsoft support contract and they are surprisingly uber on the telephone with him, so they must have at least some clever people able to help. Whether you can get through to one or not, I dunno, but you can try.
Also, there is the knowledge base which I kind of hate, but has helped me a few times. I find it more annoying to search than the problems themselves, but you might be able to find something if you can motivate yourself to search it long enough.
Also, I saw some interesting links here:
http://www.google.com/search?source=...=Google+Search
If you can start going through them and reading it all, I suspect there would be a solution eventually. Whether it's worth doing that or not though, I dunno. I think I would just go back to XP, but there are reasons why I wanna stay on Vista.
I'm not asking because of speed though, I was asking about it churning away slowly but constantly on peoples hard disks - as a noise concern. Mine isn't too bad, but it could be better. And my friends hard disk never shuts up. Even with nothing running, I can hear the hard disk chugging almost constantly.
OOoh I got that Noise thingy enabled on my hard drives could that be why I don't hear it much?
It's quick man! I cba taking mine out of the box to reinstall so I just put the install on a portable hd and it's super quick to install. Almost like installing on a VM.
Here's a guide if you want to try.
http://kurtsh.spaces.live.com/blog/c...38D!1665.entry
Only quirk is you need Vista in the first place :laugh:
I suppose if you have those RAID drivers it might slow it down but this speeds things up a teeny bit :)
Could be. I think my disk is especially loud. My computer is also especially quiet, almost silent in fact. So even the slightest noise is really clear. It's not too bad for me, but I do wonder sometimes what the frick Vista is doing to my disk when I'm just sitting staring at my desktop and I hear it doing something :p Mind of its own I tell ye. I blame SkyNet.
Looking at some of those links, it looks common so I would be inclined to blame Vista. But hopefully your new disk will help anyway.
Found out what it is. AAM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat...tic_Management
If you guys use the tool to read what setting you're at let us know if it was on high performance or low noise. Mind you your drive might not support it.