March 18th, 2009Constant HDD Activity in Vista
One of the things many people hate about Vista is how even when they’re not doing anything, the system would keep thrashing your hard drive. Vista has a few services which work in the background & they’re the reason for scraping your hard drive. The 2 major ones are
Windows Search
Superfetch
Windows Search is responsible for indexing the drive for faster search results. Useful, but not compulsory, this service definitely works your hard drive up in the background. If you’re using some other indexing service like Google Desktop etc, then you should definitely turn this off.
----------Advertisements------------Superfetch is a funny service. It ‘tries’ to learn your operating behavior, & apparently would preload applications for you. Interesting in theory, I’m not sure if it is worth it .. since for most part it is constantly using the hard drive. Could be useful if you’ve a very set working pattern, otherwise not, at least in IMHO. Personally, I’ve turned both the services off to keep me & my notebook hard drive happy.
