Comments on: Why does my hard disk light keep flashing when I start Vista up? http://askowen.info/2008/08/why-does-my-hard-disk-light-keep-flashing-when-i-start-vista-up/ Your friendly neighbourhood geek Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:57:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dave http://askowen.info/2008/08/why-does-my-hard-disk-light-keep-flashing-when-i-start-vista-up/comment-page-1/#comment-4063 Dave Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:22:29 +0000 http://askowen.info/?p=290#comment-4063 Hey Disable superfetch using regedit Disable non-essential startups using msconfig Run a file system integrity check. Defragment your hard disks. Make sure UDMA and write caching is enabled for the disk. Superfetch isn't good. I want control of my computer's memory. I don't want a stupid operating system to 'guess' what I'll do next. I don't do repeated tasks at the same time every day. And filling up RAM with ms word, ms powerpoint, and ms outlook isn't very helpful when I want to run apache tomcat. The converse is true as well. Superfetch is a promising technology, but the way it populates ram and the way vista analizes user behaviour, is pretty basic. Hey
Disable superfetch using regedit
Disable non-essential startups using msconfig
Run a file system integrity check.
Defragment your hard disks.
Make sure UDMA and write caching is enabled for the disk.

Superfetch isn’t good. I want control of my computer’s memory. I don’t want a stupid operating system to ‘guess’ what I’ll do next. I don’t do repeated tasks at the same time every day. And filling up RAM with ms word, ms powerpoint, and ms outlook isn’t very helpful when I want to run apache tomcat. The converse is true as well. Superfetch is a promising technology, but the way it populates ram and the way vista analizes user behaviour, is pretty basic.

]]> By: Andrew Reynolds http://askowen.info/2008/08/why-does-my-hard-disk-light-keep-flashing-when-i-start-vista-up/comment-page-1/#comment-2344 Andrew Reynolds Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:41:54 +0000 http://askowen.info/?p=290#comment-2344 I have heard that there is a patch that can minimise the disk thrashing and sluggish boot in vista, have you heard of this and if so what is your opinion? I have heard that there is a patch that can minimise the disk thrashing and sluggish boot in vista, have you heard of this and if so what is your opinion?

]]> By: ChrisM http://askowen.info/2008/08/why-does-my-hard-disk-light-keep-flashing-when-i-start-vista-up/comment-page-1/#comment-2343 ChrisM Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:28:55 +0000 http://askowen.info/?p=290#comment-2343 Wow, a turbo button on PCs - thats a real blast from the past. Though 'make my PC incredibly slow' button would have been more accurate. In case anyone is interested, I believe the slowing down button was introduced back when Windows still has DOS flavours as a competitor, and some programs were written assuming you had a 25MHz 386 running it - anything higher and the <strike>game became unplayable</strike> business application you were using occasionally had unusual behaviour. Wow, a turbo button on PCs – thats a real blast from the past. Though ‘make my PC incredibly slow’ button would have been more accurate. In case anyone is interested, I believe the slowing down button was introduced back when Windows still has DOS flavours as a competitor, and some programs were written assuming you had a 25MHz 386 running it – anything higher and the game became unplayable business application you were using occasionally had unusual behaviour.

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