Background chatter really annoys me about Vista

Really annoys me about Vista - there are often times when i'm trying to work
quickly and it's operating at a snails pace and all the time there is this
drive chatter in the background which only used to occur with virus - in
case of Vista it's performing some housework (that i don't want/need doing -
i *need* to do what i'm doing & fast)

Me: Pack it up i need to save this file quickly
Vista: Well i have to reorganise these files
Me: But you don't have to do it while i'm in a hurry
Vista: Well I have to do it sometime
Me: well can't you do it whilst i'm at work all day
Vista: but i have a schedule to keep to
Me: No you don't - and maybe i like my files all over the place
Vista: well i've been instructed by Mr Gates and i'm doing what im told
Me: yeah well he aint paying the bills anymore - I am - and i'm going to
shut you down
Vista: yeah well you gotta find me first
Me: well if i can't find you i'll shut the whole machine down
Vista: Then you can't save your file
Me: well at least it will shut you up for a few minutes and it's still
quickly than trying to work at this pace


if that isn't annoying/frustrating/irritating enough to throw my machine out
the window - i've nearly pulled the plug out many times - and i have reset
my computer many, many times because of this irritation

there is no evidence (method of stopping it) in the sys tray or in the task
manager - in the past i had a rule that it was 'my' computer and i wouldn't
run any software on it that i couldn't stop at any time 'i' wanted

Vista is a bigger culprit than ever for this

Why could they have not made the task appear in the systray where you can
stop it if it makes you feel like going on a killing spree -
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JethroUK;679889 Wrote:
> Really annoys me about Vista - there are often times when i'm trying to
> work
> quickly and it's operating at a snails pace and all the time there is
> this
> drive chatter in the background which only used to occur with virus -
> in
> case of Vista it's performing some housework (that i don't want/need
> doing -
> i *need* to do what i'm doing & fast)
>
> Me: Pack it up i need to save this file quickly
> Vista: Well i have to reorganise these files
> Me: But you don't have to do it while i'm in a hurry
> Vista: Well I have to do it sometime
> Me: well can't you do it whilst i'm at work all day
> Vista: but i have a schedule to keep to
> Me: No you don't - and maybe i like my files all over the place
> Vista: well i've been instructed by Mr Gates and i'm doing what im told
> Me: yeah well he aint paying the bills anymore - I am - and i'm going
> to
> shut you down
> Vista: yeah well you gotta find me first
> Me: well if i can't find you i'll shut the whole machine down
> Vista: Then you can't save your file
> Me: well at least it will shut you up for a few minutes and it's still
> quickly than trying to work at this pace
>
>
> if that isn't annoying/frustrating/irritating enough to throw my
> machine out
> the window - i've nearly pulled the plug out many times - and i have
> reset
> my computer many, many times because of this irritation
>
> there is no evidence (method of stopping it) in the sys tray or in the
> task
> manager - in the past i had a rule that it was 'my' computer and i
> wouldn't
> run any software on it that i couldn't stop at any time 'i' wanted
>
> Vista is a bigger culprit than ever for this
>
> Why could they have not made the task appear in the systray where you
> can
> stop it if it makes you feel like going on a killing spree -
> grrrrr

And her I was thinking I was the only one that spoke to my computer!

But seriously, what you need to do is this:

- Turn off the scheduled Disk Defrag, or change it's running time to
one that is more fitting to you
- Wait for the Indexing Service to run it's course. I lot of this so
called "disk thrashing" that people complain about is a result of the
indexer doing its work. Give it time. It will settle down.
- Get another hard disk for your computer, and use it for all you
data.
- Increase the memory on your computer. Vista loves memory, and
anything less than 2GB is going to give you a headache. My own
computer has 4GB at the moment, with plans of adding another 4 towards
the end of the month.
- Stop talking to your computer - you'll save on shrink bills in the
long run!


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You wouldn't have been able to have that conversation with Vista without
permission from UAC every time you asked your computer something.

JethroUK wrote:
> Really annoys me about Vista - there are often times when i'm trying to
> work quickly and it's operating at a snails pace and all the time there
> is this drive chatter in the background which only used to occur with
> virus - in case of Vista it's performing some housework (that i don't
> want/need doing - i *need* to do what i'm doing & fast)
>
> Me: Pack it up i need to save this file quickly
> Vista: Well i have to reorganise these files
> Me: But you don't have to do it while i'm in a hurry
> Vista: Well I have to do it sometime
> Me: well can't you do it whilst i'm at work all day
> Vista: but i have a schedule to keep to
> Me: No you don't - and maybe i like my files all over the place
> Vista: well i've been instructed by Mr Gates and i'm doing what im told
> Me: yeah well he aint paying the bills anymore - I am - and i'm going to
> shut you down
> Vista: yeah well you gotta find me first
> Me: well if i can't find you i'll shut the whole machine down
> Vista: Then you can't save your file
> Me: well at least it will shut you up for a few minutes and it's still
> quickly than trying to work at this pace
>
>
> if that isn't annoying/frustrating/irritating enough to throw my machine
> out the window - i've nearly pulled the plug out many times - and i have
> reset my computer many, many times because of this irritation
>
> there is no evidence (method of stopping it) in the sys tray or in the
> task manager - in the past i had a rule that it was 'my' computer and i
> wouldn't run any software on it that i couldn't stop at any time 'i' wanted
>
> Vista is a bigger culprit than ever for this
>
> Why could they have not made the task appear in the systray where you
> can stop it if it makes you feel like going on a killing spree -
> grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrr
>
>
>

You can either disable every stupid background feature vista has,
services and schedules and in effect turn vista into a slow and buggy XP,
or use the real thing that is about 10.000 times better = XP

Now if only MS would stop the crap and release sp3 for XP it would be
good, but I suspect they are holding back to push more vista-crapistas.

Just so I can be fair.. vista can be fine tuned and you can even make
batch files to run on and off services.. but this is not something every
simple user can do... even with my experience in fine tuning computers,
vista has been the hardest OS to fine tune!
Even if you disable many things, it still has too much stuff (processes)
running in the background.