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Originally Posted by CJLMTLCA
Hard drive is constantly working. After boot-up, program installs, un-installs,
even closing firefox... is this the performance analyzer, or whatever it's called?
HD will burn out before SP1 is released.
What size pagefile does vista recommend when you have 4gb of ram?
what is your memory usage % when you have 4gb of ram (idle or low usage)?
Have you tried PC Backup? Vs Ghost? With ghost if you have HD failure, you
just replace the drive, boot from the ghost CD and restore your image.
I guess with vista it has to be done after you install the os first?
With Speedboost enabled, HD works at the same time as the USB key. Isn't
the USB key supposed to alleviate HD usage?
Is it true you have to install Vista with 2gb of ram and then add the
other 2 gigs because of a bug?
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1. The hard drive activity goes on until your ram fills up, it should taper off after that.
2. Leave the pagefile on auto, on all your drives that it's acceptable to have a pagefile on. (ie. the root drive, and any other internal drives, Vista will use the fastest ones automatically)
3. With 4gb, 10 programs (music, file transfer, browser, IM, etc.) open, I'm currently at 39% memory utilization, so 61% cached, task manager reports 0 MB free.
4. I'd assume so, someone else who knows this better may want to answer.
5. Speedboost is supposed to improve performance, I'm not sure that there was any claim made to reduce HDD usage. Actually, I'm pretty sure it won't, because everything on the USB key is put on the HDD as well, so that you don't lose data if you pull the key out.
6. Not sure about this one, but I think so. Or you can slipstream the appropriate patch onto the install. Or you can disable memory hole in the BIOS, to bring the memory down to 3 GB while you install.
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Originally Posted by Erroneus
The HDD activty can be due to the file search index running, it will do that when machine is not under heavy load and offcourse more in the beginning, since it's working on building up the file index database.
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By deault, indexing only indexes users folders and the start menu, so this should actually be much better than XP, where it indexed everything. (And was in turn disabled by most people)