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Milhouse Van Houten
Whether it's indexing, Superfetch, shadow copying, or something else causing
what I describe below, is there a way to dial back Vista Ultimate without
outright disabling the indexing and Superfetch services or whatever else is
causing this? Even on a system with 2GB RAM and a fast disk, this is
unacceptable.
I've been reading a lot of threads here but haven't hit upon the answer of
how to stop this problem without cutting off Vista at the knees:
According to my disk activity light and Reliability and Performance Monitor,
Vista frequently is all over things that it shouldn't be interested in, such
as the 180MB Nero installer I downloaded the other day, or an 8GB VM, both
sitting idly on another partition, which is NOT included in the very
restricted indexing scope.
So I don't *think* it's indexing that's doing it.
Yet, Reliability and Performance Monitor shows "svchost.exe
(LocalServiceNetworkRestricted)" reading such files -- I can even see how
many MB/s.
I'm not using ReadyBoost, so it's not that, and I've disabled defrag
scheduling, so it's not that (also, Defender's scheduled scan is off).
The two example files mentioned above *are* two files that I accessed
recently, so I suppose it could be Superfetch attempting to do something
with them, though it should know better. An 8GB file?! If I download a
350MB AVI file, I would imagine that will be "read" sooner or later as well.
Maybe something to do with shadow copies?
Note: this is not a new installation, so it's not the increased activity
that you see in the week after a new install. It's business as usual, very
often most noticeable after booting into Vista but certainly not limited to
that time.
Thanks
what I describe below, is there a way to dial back Vista Ultimate without
outright disabling the indexing and Superfetch services or whatever else is
causing this? Even on a system with 2GB RAM and a fast disk, this is
unacceptable.
I've been reading a lot of threads here but haven't hit upon the answer of
how to stop this problem without cutting off Vista at the knees:
According to my disk activity light and Reliability and Performance Monitor,
Vista frequently is all over things that it shouldn't be interested in, such
as the 180MB Nero installer I downloaded the other day, or an 8GB VM, both
sitting idly on another partition, which is NOT included in the very
restricted indexing scope.
So I don't *think* it's indexing that's doing it.
Yet, Reliability and Performance Monitor shows "svchost.exe
(LocalServiceNetworkRestricted)" reading such files -- I can even see how
many MB/s.
I'm not using ReadyBoost, so it's not that, and I've disabled defrag
scheduling, so it's not that (also, Defender's scheduled scan is off).
The two example files mentioned above *are* two files that I accessed
recently, so I suppose it could be Superfetch attempting to do something
with them, though it should know better. An 8GB file?! If I download a
350MB AVI file, I would imagine that will be "read" sooner or later as well.
Maybe something to do with shadow copies?
Note: this is not a new installation, so it's not the increased activity
that you see in the week after a new install. It's business as usual, very
often most noticeable after booting into Vista but certainly not limited to
that time.
Thanks