Comments on: Windows Vista notes, part 2

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:20:02 +0000

I used perfmon to look at disk activity and every second Vista is pulling the registry and looking at USB drives. I do have an integrated 15-in-1 card reader that may be the problem. Why would Vista poll the card reader every second - oh yeah, Windows programmers!

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Vista disk activity again at The Chronicles of Stuffed Guys — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:59:25 +0000

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By: Herb

Herb — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:06:35 +0000

Thanks for the write up. The disk noise was driving me crazy ! Now I can live with Vista again ! … and may turn off UAM to save my wrists !!!

By: thanks

thanks — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:02:02 +0000

Thanks; this constant disc access was starting to get me all warm and fuzzy - very annoying to say the least.

For the record the User Annoyance Control feature was the first thing that went on my vista.

Whomever at MS came up with these ideas (and a few others we don’t know about yet, I can see comming) can go flush it as far as I’m concerned.

Other than these I’m pleased by the OS thus far and it’s quite pleasant to work with once you get the hang of things.

By: Lee Francis Wilhelmsen

Lee Francis Wilhelmsen — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:52:20 +0000

I turned off shadowing by right clicking on the Computer icon, open “properties”, choose the “System Protection” tab and uncheck the disk under “Automatic restore points”.

I reclaimed at least 10 GB of my disk.

Check out http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=243 for details.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:51:41 +0000

Would you mind describing how to disable UAC and shadowing.

By: Evil Agent

Evil Agent — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:03:40 +0000

lol I saw the UAC Apple ad now (the other ones I had already seen) - brilliant!

Although I don’t like Macs (they’re great out-of-the-box products, but when you need more than that…. good ol’ PC beats them by far!), I must say that their campaign is absolutely brilliant!

However, I kinda like UAC. Obviously, it’s gonna take a little while until software developers have their products Vista-ready (I think that signed products can do pretty much everything without express permission), it’s not that bad to know what’s happening in our system… Except for the time we’re upgrading and installing everything! :P It’s annoying in that stage (cancel or allow? cancel or allow? annoying! :P)