Windows Vista has bad Behaviour
Vista constantly accesses my hard drive, here is how to do the exorcism (no, not the format-the-drive exorcism).
One thing I notice whenever I start Windows Vista (I usually rely on Linux) is that it always does something on my harddrive. I didn’t know what it was doing, so I started to investigate.
To keep it short, there are three things to disable to keep your harddisk from working permanently.
First, I disabled the “Indexing Service” which was an obvious candidate for accessing my drive(s). Unfortunately it wasn’t the only process digging on my harddrive.
The second service I disabled was the “System Restore” which was suggested here.
This still didn’t work out, so my quest wasn’t finished yet. The last process I disabled was “Superfetch”. This actually did the trick. I don’t know what it is supposed to do, but the OS didn’t suffer as far as I can tell.
I’ll leave the three processes disabled because I didn’t recognize a negative impact (well, the Index-Service might be important to some people).
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If something’s expensive to develop, and somebody’s not going to get paid, it won’t get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?—Bill Gates
Why, oh why didn’t they choose otherwise?
