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Offline mikeymike

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Re: Windows timing
« on: January 23, 2010, 09:43:46 AM »
Slightly off-topic, but one thing I find infuriating about Vista is how sometimes the hard disk will be getting completely thrashed, yet nothing shows up in Task Manager suggesting that any particular process is up to much.  Yes, I realise that high disk IO = high processor usage went out when DMA came along, but still, normally I would expect to be able to pick out a process that was doing that much disk work.
 

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Re: Windows timing
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2010, 01:16:05 PM »
Nope, I tried switching off indexing, no difference.  Occasionally I've fired up procmon and found the system doing a tour of the system32 folder, so perhaps it is due to seriously agressive Windows File Protection?

SuperFetch - it really would suck if the performance advantages of SuperFetch resulted in the savings of app startup time being transferred to a longer boot time!