Running Vista x64.
1. explorer.exe is using 100% of the CPU for absolutely no good reason. It's bringing my dual core CPU to its knees. This is such a common problem for me that I often have to kill explorer via task manager at least 7 times a week. I mean, what the hell is explorer doing that it needs 100% of my CPU for hours and hours and hours? It's like it's on some damn infinite loop bug or something.
2. Sync Center is a complete piece of shit. Searches for changes on my pocket PC every few minutes like it feels like it just connected. It usually says the Pocket PC is disconnected even though My Computer sees it and I can browse it just fine. It also disconnects on random. It also refuses to allow my Pocket PC to shut down. If I turn off my PPC while it's connected to the computer, Sync Center always wakes it up after a minute to "search for changes." Of course, Microsoft forces me to use Sync Center for anything I want to do with the PPC.
3. explorer doesn't remember folder settings. I can't set "detail view" as default because it never remembers the settings. The tab details also never get remembered. I want it to show things like "date modified" "size" "file type." But it always shows stupid crap like "date picture taken" "picture rating" and "tags." When I try to change it Vista NEVER remembers these changes, even after I do the apply to all folders thing.
4. HDD usage goes to a solid 100% for hours at a time. I've turned off indexing. I've turned off every type of scan I can think of. I've stopped every single scheduled program I can think of. Using procmon it's always something like svchost using the HDD. And it's forceful! When this is happening, I can't do anything. I can't watch movies. I can't process photos. I can't play games. Web browsing gets really slow. It's like it places USER INPUT as the very LOWEST priority and completely hijacks my computer. I thought these things were only supposed to happen while my computer is idle, and stop the moment it's not idle anymore?
EDIT - More Problems
5. When I wake the computer up from Sleep, browsers that were open when I put the computer to sleep can no longer establish a connection to the internet. So if I had AT open in Firefox when I put my computer to sleep, when it wakes up Firefox won't be able to refresh or go to any links. Same with IE. I have to close all browsers and restart them and then they connect just fine. This is horrible because I usually have about 60 tabs open and I have to wait for all 60 tabs to reload again.
6. My HDD access light is SOLID and I hear seeking all the time as I run malware scanners. Guess what Resource Monitor shows as the Disk Usage? 0 KB/sec. Worthless?
7. Windows doesn't shut down. When I go to shut down Vista it just gets stuck at the "shutting down windows" screen. For hours. Awesome.
I just know that there's more to come.
EDIT - Even more problems
8. Sound Blaster Audigy 2 snaps and cracks and gives static-y sound output when my CPU usage is high. Guess which Vista program sometimes leads to this?
9. explorer uses 100% when I open up some folders. My Computer sometimes causes this. Folders with a lot of files have a very good chance of doing this, but when I delete all the files so that there are only a couple of files in the folder, explorer still goes to 100%.
10. After coming back from Sleep, sometimes I don't have any more sound. I have to enable and disable my sound card in Device Manager in an attempt to get it working again.
11. Resource Manager sometimes HARD LOCKS the entire computer for a second at a time. There will be periods when I have it on when all of a sudden my input devices stop working and the mouse pointer stops moving for about a second, then starts moving again, then stops moving, then starts... etc. This lasts for a minute until Resource Manager stops using 50-70% of the CPU and goes back to using 0-5% CPU.
12. As always, USB connectivity with my PDA Phone is complete hit or miss. Plug in. Vista says it's not connected. My Phone says it IS connected. Unplug and replug. Still can't establish a connection. Do this three more times and on the third try it connects. WTF? I even hear the USB connect sound effect every time I plug in the USB.
13. Windows Defender scan scheduling doesn't work worth a damn. It is set to scan daily at 2AM. Guess what it does? It scans ANY TIME IT PLEASES. I just caught it starting to scan at 1:36AM, which led to a C++ Runtime Error in one of my image editing programs that was running through a batch of photos at the time, and now I have to restart a batch. EACH batch item takes about 3 hours to process by itself.
1. explorer.exe is using 100% of the CPU for absolutely no good reason. It's bringing my dual core CPU to its knees. This is such a common problem for me that I often have to kill explorer via task manager at least 7 times a week. I mean, what the hell is explorer doing that it needs 100% of my CPU for hours and hours and hours? It's like it's on some damn infinite loop bug or something.
2. Sync Center is a complete piece of shit. Searches for changes on my pocket PC every few minutes like it feels like it just connected. It usually says the Pocket PC is disconnected even though My Computer sees it and I can browse it just fine. It also disconnects on random. It also refuses to allow my Pocket PC to shut down. If I turn off my PPC while it's connected to the computer, Sync Center always wakes it up after a minute to "search for changes." Of course, Microsoft forces me to use Sync Center for anything I want to do with the PPC.
3. explorer doesn't remember folder settings. I can't set "detail view" as default because it never remembers the settings. The tab details also never get remembered. I want it to show things like "date modified" "size" "file type." But it always shows stupid crap like "date picture taken" "picture rating" and "tags." When I try to change it Vista NEVER remembers these changes, even after I do the apply to all folders thing.
4. HDD usage goes to a solid 100% for hours at a time. I've turned off indexing. I've turned off every type of scan I can think of. I've stopped every single scheduled program I can think of. Using procmon it's always something like svchost using the HDD. And it's forceful! When this is happening, I can't do anything. I can't watch movies. I can't process photos. I can't play games. Web browsing gets really slow. It's like it places USER INPUT as the very LOWEST priority and completely hijacks my computer. I thought these things were only supposed to happen while my computer is idle, and stop the moment it's not idle anymore?
EDIT - More Problems
5. When I wake the computer up from Sleep, browsers that were open when I put the computer to sleep can no longer establish a connection to the internet. So if I had AT open in Firefox when I put my computer to sleep, when it wakes up Firefox won't be able to refresh or go to any links. Same with IE. I have to close all browsers and restart them and then they connect just fine. This is horrible because I usually have about 60 tabs open and I have to wait for all 60 tabs to reload again.
6. My HDD access light is SOLID and I hear seeking all the time as I run malware scanners. Guess what Resource Monitor shows as the Disk Usage? 0 KB/sec. Worthless?
7. Windows doesn't shut down. When I go to shut down Vista it just gets stuck at the "shutting down windows" screen. For hours. Awesome.
I just know that there's more to come.
EDIT - Even more problems
8. Sound Blaster Audigy 2 snaps and cracks and gives static-y sound output when my CPU usage is high. Guess which Vista program sometimes leads to this?
9. explorer uses 100% when I open up some folders. My Computer sometimes causes this. Folders with a lot of files have a very good chance of doing this, but when I delete all the files so that there are only a couple of files in the folder, explorer still goes to 100%.
10. After coming back from Sleep, sometimes I don't have any more sound. I have to enable and disable my sound card in Device Manager in an attempt to get it working again.
11. Resource Manager sometimes HARD LOCKS the entire computer for a second at a time. There will be periods when I have it on when all of a sudden my input devices stop working and the mouse pointer stops moving for about a second, then starts moving again, then stops moving, then starts... etc. This lasts for a minute until Resource Manager stops using 50-70% of the CPU and goes back to using 0-5% CPU.
12. As always, USB connectivity with my PDA Phone is complete hit or miss. Plug in. Vista says it's not connected. My Phone says it IS connected. Unplug and replug. Still can't establish a connection. Do this three more times and on the third try it connects. WTF? I even hear the USB connect sound effect every time I plug in the USB.
13. Windows Defender scan scheduling doesn't work worth a damn. It is set to scan daily at 2AM. Guess what it does? It scans ANY TIME IT PLEASES. I just caught it starting to scan at 1:36AM, which led to a C++ Runtime Error in one of my image editing programs that was running through a batch of photos at the time, and now I have to restart a batch. EACH batch item takes about 3 hours to process by itself.
