Ever notice how Vista churns your HDD? I had the misfortune of having to install Vista on a machine again and finally took the time to figure out what to do to make it stop. I knew about the first four, but the last two were new to me and made all the difference:
- Disable ReadyBoost
- Disable SuperFetch
- Disable the Windows Search service
- Disable the scheduled Disk Defragmentation task
- Disable the scheduled System Restore task (shows up as super-high System Volume Information traffic)
- Go into the registry and disable prefetching entirely.
All these steps removes 99% of the extra disk activity and now the disk doesn't rattle all the time :)
Well, I haven't try using is vista. Anyway, thanks for sharing that idea.
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