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    Just wondering whats wrong with Vista

    Just now my Vista HP just started loading my HDD so badly for over an hour when Physical Memory is only at 70%. I might be doing some x264 encodings but those are set to lowest priority and reading the source over the LAN, and probably writing less than 10KB/s to the disk (at 1.3FPS).

    Took about 2 minutes to open up task manager but couldn't find anything that eats >3% CPU. I remember seeing an icon in the task bar saying it is downloading updates, but what update that eats almost no CPU but hogging the disk up for over an hour?

    Heck...

    Vista is lighting fast compared to XP when it doesn't do anything in background but this (I presume is automatic update) is just damn annoying when I actually have to use the system and have no way to pause it

    How is everyone finding Vista.
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    Re: Just wondering whats wrong with Vista

    Fire up Task Manager, go to the Performance tab and click the Resource Monitor button.
    This button has the "administrative task" shield so it will trigger a UAC prompt.

    In Resource Monitor, expand the CPU and Disk sections and you can see on a per-process basis what is consuming CPU time, and which files have been accessed recently, and by what (the File column will need widening to see the file path properly).

    The Resource Monitor is just one of the performance tools built into Vista - it is the default snap-in displayed when you launch perfmon (or drill down through Control Panel / System and Maintenance / Performance Information and Tools / Advanced Tools / Open Reliability and Performance Monitor).


    Under the Monitoring Tools section, Performance Monitor is used for logging performance data over time and Reliability Monitor is used for observing "system stability" which gives an overview of the history of application crashes/hangs, hardware failures, Windows crashes.

    You can click on a column with an X to view a summary of events for that sample to see more detail about why the stability statistic dropped - for example on my system it went from 9.87 to 9.08 because "TurbineLauncher.exe" crashed on 2008-05-30 which I think was when I trialled LOTRO (and it sucked).

    As time goes by and a system goes without faults, the stability is considered to slowly increase (up to 10.0 as a cap), so when there is a decent amount of historical data collected it can become more accurate/useful.
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