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Why is the retail version of Vista so slow?
It can take over 5 minutes to respond to Ctrl Alt Delete, when the
performance gadget shows that the CPU usage is less than 5%!
If this was Windows 95 I'd say that the file indexing is slowing everything
down, but according to the blurb this has been enhanced for Vista.
My PC has a dual core 3ghz Pentium 4, 1gb RAM and 200gb SATA hard disk, but
it's slower than a Commodore 64.
Any ideas how to speed it up?
 
I think you may have answered your own question. One of the first things
Vista does after an install is index your hard drive, usually it only indexes
certain areas but if you've modified anything it could attempt to index the
entire hard drive.

So the first hour or two could be incredibly slow while it build it's
initial index, give it overnight and I'm sure it'll be running much more to
your liking. If you chose to let it index an entire 200GB HD though indexing
could take several days.

Either way when it's finished your searches will be MUCH faster than Windows
XP ever was :)
 
How do I stop it indexing the whole drive?
I found options to change which types of files it indexes, so removed some
of these.
The indexing options dialog shows Start Menu & Users, which sounds like it
won't have much work to do.
The problem has persisted since I installed Vista on 18th Jan, but it's
intermittent. Some days it performs well, others it's a complete waste of
space. Yesterday I had to hit the power button, because it hadn't reacted to
ctrl alt delete after 15 minutes, the mouse pointer moved, but I couldn't do
any work. Power meter still showed less than 5% CPU and around 30% memory
usage.
 
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