Just installed Vista, what now?

[mamrey]

So Vista is finally installed on my new machine. I updated Vista and drivers. Everything seems to be working fine. Is there anything that I should do now?

 

[nerp]

Yeah. Enjoy your machine and don't worry about tweaking it too much. Let the indexer and superfetch do its thing. You might see some HD activity during the the first few days. Don't worry about it. It shouldn't affect your system's responsiveness.

 

[heymrdj]

I recommend letting the system run for 2 days without turning off (restart is ok) to allow the indexer and superfetch to get ready. You can of course use it as much as you want durning this time, just let vista sit there and run (NO SLEEP MODE or it's not doing you anygood). My laptop did the HD accessing thing for maby 35 hours or so before it was all ready.

 

[mamrey]

Alright, well I'm gonna create an image of my Vista set up now. I don't have internet access on the new system cause I'm on 56k and it doesnt have a 56k modem(im not gonna bother, im leavin for college in 3 weeks). I bought Age of Mythology yesterday, so I'm gonna have fun with that. Do you think I should run Orthos stress test and what not?

 

[Skeeedunt]

If it's a new machine, I'd normally memtest for a few hours and orthos/prime overnight, but it's not really a requirement if you're not OC'ing.

 

[mamrey]

alright im probably gonna overclock later in the week so I'll run those later. Thanks!

 

[Cutthroat]

Biggest mistake I made when I upgraded to Vista was I kept doing things (mostly tweaking) that I used to do with XP, and I turned off some of the features I thought were using resources unnecessarily. I had to teach myself to leave it alone and let it do it's thing, it works so much better now that I stopped screwing with it.

 

[Mem]

CCleaner is good an idea to install in Vista and run,gets rid of the old left over crap.

 

[mamrey]

Alright, well I created a standard user account, but everytime i load it VIsta tells me that it failed to load properly and it automatically uses a Temp profile

 

[pcgeek11]

" it works so much better now that I stopped screwing with it."

More people need to follow this fine example.

pcgeek11

 

[KeypoX]

does indexing index newly installed HD's? Cause i put one in and i can't search for anything on it

 

[Cutthroat]

Originally posted by: KeypoX
does indexing index newly installed HD's? Cause i put one in and i can't search for anything on it

Go to indexing options in the control panel, add the new drive to the indexed locations and rebuild the index.

 

[cheapherk]

Turn off the darn UAC!

 

[LOUISSSSS]

now install the 2 windows hotfix's for vista

 

[stash]

Originally posted by: cheapherk
Turn off the darn UAC!

Worst advice of the thread.

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: Cutthroat

Originally posted by: KeypoX
does indexing index newly installed HD's? Cause i put one in and i can't search for anything on it

Go to indexing options in the control panel, add the new drive to the indexed locations and rebuild the index.

thanks but i clicked help to reveal this

"You shouldn't. If you make the index too large, or if you include system file locations like the folder called Program Files, your routine searches will slow down because the index will not perform well. For best results, we recommend that you only add folders to the index that contain your personal files."

So basically indexing is worthless, well for me anyways i will try to figure out someway to make use of it though... i only search once in a blue moon to find a obsecur file i know i have

 

[Cutthroat]

Originally posted by: KeypoX

Originally posted by: Cutthroat

Originally posted by: KeypoX
does indexing index newly installed HD's? Cause i put one in and i can't search for anything on it

Go to indexing options in the control panel, add the new drive to the indexed locations and rebuild the index.

thanks but i clicked help to reveal this

"You shouldn't. If you make the index too large, or if you include system file locations like the folder called Program Files, your routine searches will slow down because the index will not perform well. For best results, we recommend that you only add folders to the index that contain your personal files."

So basically indexing is worthless, well for me anyways i will try to figure out someway to make use of it though... i only search once in a blue moon to find a obsecur file i know i have

Well if you click on advanced from withing the indexing options you can choose what file types to index. I have excluded all video, audio, compressed and game files from the index. I'm currently indexing 39,000 items and it's fast when I use it.

By default your root drive has lots of exclusions, including the Windows folder, however it still seems to index some of these items, for instance, click start and type 'reliability' into the search box, it will launch the reliability monitor which resides in the Windows folder, I don't get that. However that is useful, and shows how much more robust the Vista index is, it's not just for searching for files anymore.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: KeypoX

Originally posted by: Cutthroat

Originally posted by: KeypoX
does indexing index newly installed HD's? Cause i put one in and i can't search for anything on it

Go to indexing options in the control panel, add the new drive to the indexed locations and rebuild the index.

thanks but i clicked help to reveal this

"You shouldn't. If you make the index too large, or if you include system file locations like the folder called Program Files, your routine searches will slow down because the index will not perform well. For best results, we recommend that you only add folders to the index that contain your personal files."

So basically indexing is worthless, well for me anyways i will try to figure out someway to make use of it though... i only search once in a blue moon to find a obsecur file i know i have

You should index your start menu, emails, documents, music, video and pictures. Anything else is just a waste. The reliability meter is coming up not because its indexed your windows folder, but it indexes the start menu shortcuts by default.