It could be anything, really. The 8 hours you spent playing with it + the 9
hours you let it sit, lonely, in the corner is 17 hours. Now, unless you
really are Google, I would think that's enough time to index your computer,
so something else is going on there. The indexer is going to run, because
its an avid information freak and just can't wait to get its grubby little
bytes on anything new, so its always on the lookout. It especially loves
log files, for some reason. But I digress.
So, now we start looking for other culprits, like perhaps a beta video
driver that isn't quite holding up its end of the bargain, or maybe some
software not getting along, or, well, anything like that. Too bad your name
isn't Ian or that would have been a great Orwellian pun.
Also, while others may argue it out, I think you will find that while the
minimum specification with regard to RAM is 512MB to be "Vista Capable,"
let's assume for a moment that Microsoft meant you can run Vista Home Basic
with that set-up but every edition as you move up the ladder will require
more hardware resources to make it run. Here we are at Vista
Superfantasticultimate, so, my point to all that is, (and it's an opinion,
mind you) 1 GB of RAM may be near the low side for Ultimate. Now throw in
the debugging code and the fact that 5384.4 isn't exactly optimized for
speed, I would expect the system to churn a little.
For interest sake, on this computer right at this moment, I have roughly
900MB of RAM in play and the CPU usage is around 30%, with Outlook 2007, Win
Mail, Win Media Center streaming music and IE7 open, indexing is on and a
total of 61 processes running. I would consider this a normal situation for
this computer with a beta operating system.
