Vista Ultimate x64 Performance Issues

[Mike Benton]

I have a new laptop with Vista Ultimate x64. Aside from the base
installation I installed Office 2007 Professional and I use Yahoo! music for
downloads.

With my new laptop, most of the time I will power it on to browse the web. I
hit the power button walk away for about 15-20 minutes and usually it is
done doing whatever it does that keeps the utilization at 100%. I did
install Procman.exe and have watched the activity. To me it looks like
svchost.exe reads and writes about every file on the laptop.

Now I've seen 3rd party software out there that claims to enhance the
performance of Vista. From what I remember, this is partially accomplished
by 'tweaking' svchost processes. I'm not sure if the software actually
works.....and what I lose by possibly disabling these features. Essentially,
I feel like I may have purchased my last Windows-based pc.

I have another laptop that I use with XP Pro. As a software developer (IBM
Websphere), I do all my work there. Why does my XP machine run so much more
efficiently than Vista? Is it because I have the 'ultimate' version....so
the machine is bogged down running services that I never use?

It's faster for me to get in my car and drive to work to surf the web than
it is to grab my Vista laptop from its bag and use it.....

 

[Mike Benton]

Re: Vista Ultimate x64 Performance Issues

Also, with a 6MB Internet connection my laptop started downloading 'Windows
Updates' at 7:39. It is now 8:08 and it is only 32% complete on the install.
On one hand I happy to maintain a secure pc, but on the other hand I hate
the wait time. Again, if I want to grab my laptop to do a quick search on
the Internet I can forget it.

My updates just completed and I now have to restart. Nice. Maybe with the
next reboot I will only have to wait 10 minutes....

 

[John Barnes]

Re: Vista Ultimate x64 Performance Issues

When you first use your Vista computer it does spend a lot of time creating
its search indexes and shadow copies of a lot of files. You will appreciate
the quicker searches and possibly the shadow copies at some point. You can
go into the indexing options (control panel \ System and Maintenance \
indexing options) and reduce the areas to index. If I recall you can also
set the priority of the svchost that is doing the indexing to a lower
priority so you can do other activities.


"Mike Benton" <msnewsgroups@michaelbenton.com> wrote in message
news:19750E8C-7979-4070-B600-5B2D1569EE00@microsoft.com...
> Also, with a 6MB Internet connection my laptop started downloading
> 'Windows Updates' at 7:39. It is now 8:08 and it is only 32% complete on
> the install. On one hand I happy to maintain a secure pc, but on the other
> hand I hate the wait time. Again, if I want to grab my laptop to do a
> quick search on the Internet I can forget it.
>
> My updates just completed and I now have to restart. Nice. Maybe with the
> next reboot I will only have to wait 10 minutes....