Vista disk activity driving me insane

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I have a Windows Vista Ultimate box I built with an E6400 Core 2 Duo
Processor, 2GB of ddr2-800 RAM, and a WD Raptor 10k hard drive and 1GB
ReadyBoost drive.

The one thing which is driving me nuts about Windows Vista compared to XP is
the idle drive activity - its insane!

I disabled Windows Search Service, which I really liked but couldnt deal
with the disk activity.

Doing anything that requires setting a System Restore point (like installing
an application) - will send the disk into a frenzy for over 5 minutes!

But the most annoying part is that I will be playing a game, and suddenly
Vista will start hammering my disk - I have *no idea* why this happens - it
doesnt happen under XP with the same RAM. It ruins the playability of my
game and is just hell.

Anyone know any other tweaks or the possible source of all this disk
crunching madness???

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If he's a Linux troll why is he calling XP the best thing out there?

Personally, I'm not ready to disagree with him.

Quite frankly after using Vista Ultimate since RC2 I'm definitely going to
put another
drive in my machine for XP. My main interest in Vista was DirectX 10 but
besides that I
dont mind backburnering it until the DirectX 10 games actually come out.

Now I hear someone has hacked DirectX 10 for XP, which isnt surprising
since some game developers have said that there is no reason for DirectX 10
to be Vista-only except for marketing.

But the disk activity thing is really the only part of Vista which I can no
longer deal with.
Oh and it would be nice to get my framerate performance and stability back
in BF2142.

[Steve Thackery]

I can't understand why you find disk activity so objectionable. It's just a
hard disk - not like it's fastened to a body part or anything, is it?

Anyway, it's normal. The indexer generates lots of disk activity, but if
you leave it alone it will settle down to almost nothing after a week or so.
Vista does scheduled disk defrags each week; it also shuffles the files
around on the disk to optimise your boot time; and preloads files into RAM
that it's expecting you to use.

It shouldn't interfere with anything else, though. It should back off
immediately if anything else is using the computer resources. Are you
*sure* it interferes with your game playability? In what way, exactly?

As I said, most of it's due to the indexer, so leave it running for a few
days and really you shouldn't have any more problems.

Steve

[Adam Albright]

You got to overlook Frank. He only has two posting modes; dumb and
dumber. He's dreaming someday, if he gets dumb enough, somebody will
offer him the opportunity to become a member of the dumbest; the MVP
club, which first and formost requires you swear an oath, sealed in
blood, to never ever be critical of anything Microsoft has done.
NEVER, to matter what. Frank is currently working on trying to
remember the Microsoft mantra.

1. Nobody expects the latest version of Windows to work, till the
first service pack gets released, oh, maybe a year from now.

2. Got a problem with Vista? Oh, it got to be a driver issue, not
Microsoft's fault. <snicker>

3. It's your software, not Vista. Microsoft software is always bug
free. <double snicker>

4. If you can't get Vista to work, you must be dumb.

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If you play video games it is very disruptive, because if the computer gets
busy with too much disk activity you will get severe stuttering and reduced
frame rates in the game which affect its playability.

This is especially a problem with Vista, since its stability and performance
with the game I play daily (BF2142) is already significantly lower then it
was on XP.

[Frank]

I think he's wondered far from the home. :-)
Frank

[Frank]

Please post your current systems specs.
Thanks.
Frank