I have Vista Premium Home Edition on a 2-month old Gateway, and am
reasonably well pleased with performance... have SuperReadyBoostFetch
and all that other hard-drive-thrashing crap turned off, and currently
have it set to create a fresh restore point every Sunday. Despite
this, I cannot for love or money keep System Restore from running
EVERY SINGLE TIME I get any sort of software patch or update. Windows
update? Firefox or Norton update? Scratch my arse? System Restore
cranks up, kidnaps my box for an hour and a half, and sits there
grinding away. Can't play games and even switching between songs in
Media Player becomes tiresomely slow.
Plus my HD is a particular model of Seagate that is *LOUD*. Sounds
like midgets munching granola in there, and it's just plain
irritating. And I'm sure this crap is stripping months off my hard
drive's lifespan. How on Earth do I turn it off, short of disabling
System Restore altogether? Is this just the price you pay for having
Vista?