Vista Home Premium

[Rottie]

I tried to turn off indexing and it seems like there is a lot of activity in the background I can't figure out. I don't like the idea of letting the HDD worn out of too much activities.

Any tweaks? or any other way to stop it?

Thank you

 

[Noema]

It's most likely Superfetch. And it's low priority I/O so it won't really affect performance

I'd leave it alone. It can really increase the overall performance of the OS, specially if you have more than 2GB of RAM.

It should stop after a few minutes after booting after it's done loading the cache.

 

[NewMaxx]

You can disable the Windows Search service to fully get rid of indexing.

 

[Nothinman]

I don't like the idea of letting the HDD worn out of too much activities.

That shouldn't kill the drive unless it's overheating too.

 

[Noema]

I wouldn't turn indexing off either...yes, the first few days there's gonna be thrashing because it has to index every file, and that can take a while if you've got a lot of files.

But in the end, the thrashing will stop once the indexing has been finalized, and the ability to find any file from the Start menu in a second (including meta-data from mp3s and the contents of text documents) is absolutely priceless, and reason alone IMO to upgrade to Vista.

 

[nerp]

Let Vista do its thing. Do your best to stop thinking about the OS in terms of how we thought about XP, 98, 95, etc.

And don't worry about your HD wearing out. It should be able to run continuously for years. If it's going to fail, it's going to fail, regardless of your usage patterns, for the most part.

 

[Rottie]

Thank you very much for all responses I will leave as it is and also I have added to 2GB (1GB x 2) memory yesterday from 1GB.